We all decided to order the same thing which was buttermilk battered fried chicken on top of mashed sweet potatos with a ham cream gravy and topped with sauteed sugar snap peas.
Truthfully, it wasn't that great. THe chicken was good, but the sweet potatos were definately sweet making the combination rather interesting. After dinner we had dessert. We didn't really have a choice. They cleared our table of everything, then brought us out dessert menus and new glasses of water all in one quick motion and said "now what would you like for dessert?" We were all kind of taken back by this and decided we didn't really have an option, so we decided to share an apple pie w/ ice cream. It actually came with cinnimon ice cream, but we were a little nervous about it b/c of the sweet potatos, so we substituted it for vanilla. How plain, I know, but it was good!
On the way back we stopped at some of the souviner shops and caught this memorable moment! Notice that Shelly is sporting beads as well. However, we never were quite sure how she got them...
Saturday morning we slept in rather late and truthfully I don't know what we did before our lunch and learn that was at noon. So at noon, we had the lunch and learn which was actually very beneficial. It was tittled "Marketing yourself in a competative profession". There were about 4 other hygienists that gave us a lot of really good tips. Unfortunately we had to leave early in order to sell at the DH Marketplace where a lot of groups from different states sell things to earn money for their program. I actually bought a super cute watch from Kentucky DHA and I even got 5 dollars off b/c the battery wasn't working. It actually still isn't working. :) Everytime someone asked me what time it was I'd say 4:00. Ha ha ha, (I'm so funny) Anyhow, after the market place we were spent, so we went up and took a nap for a couple of hours.
When we woke up, it was about 7:20 and we decided we'd meet Shelly and go to dinner. We went to a cute little cafe at the end of Decatur. They had a nice jazz band.
Our waiter there was really nice. His name was Von and he was great. It was totally opposite from the night before at Nolas and it was quite tranquil. In fact, we weren't even asked if we wanted dessert. But when we asked another waiter if they had dessert, he said "um..yeah, we have bread pudding and um, vanilla ice cream." Wow, what a choice! We got a kick out of that and decided we'd find somewhere else to fight our sugar craving.
We ended up at Bubba Gumps shrimp house. It's all based off of the movie Forest Gump. It was a great atmosphere and the dessert was so fantastic! 
We didn't do to much on Sunday. We stopped and got more of our yummy pralines that we'd been eating all week then had a PoBoy sandwich for lunch. I actually had red beans and rice b/c I heard it was so good down in the south. It was good, but not amazing. Afterwords we went to the river to ride the free ferry across and that was fun. This is Michelle and I before we went across.
On the way over we met a DH from New Orleans and she told us that they were having a really neat farmers market at the end of the French Quarter on Decatur st, so we hopped back on the ferry and went back.
I unfortunately don't have any pictures of the farmers market, but I think thats when it hit Michelle and I that we wanted to go home. The stuff was awesome, but there were a lot of people in a small place, it was hot, and seriously so many people smoke! We stayed for about an hour then went back to the hotel to get our stuff and catch a taxi to the airport. Speaking about smoking, one funny thing is that the flight attendant on one of our flights while giving her spill about how to keep your seatbelts on and such said "Please refrain from smoking for the rest of your life, but if you need to smoke, please wait to do so when you're off the plane." How awesome!
I have to put in a plug for my husband. When he picked us up, he had brought us granola bars, fruit, licorice and fruit snacks in case we were hungry. How cute is he! I was really excited to see him again. I missed him. And that's all.
So that's it, a total play by play of our New Orleans trip. Throughly fun and all in all a very sucessful trip! Now, I pack up again for Laurel Light Camp. Seriously, I'm so excited to just be home! I think I'm all vacationed out and it's only June.
This is a picture of me by Harrah's casino. We never went in, we were too busy doing other stuff, but they did have nice palm trees.
This is one of the many beautiful balconies that they have in the french quarter. This one was across from Cafe du monde. It's kind of dark, so I apologize.
Then we moved up to the Amazon Jungle room. There were a lot of plants and even some tucans, but unfortunately, our journey ended here. We got a call from Kami telling us she needed us back at the hotel ASAP. I must admit I was bummed. Mostly because they have an exhibit that you can pet baby sharks. And that's what I wanted to do most. Luckily, however, because we were only in there like 20 minutes, we were able to get a refund, so we were happy with that.
After going to the hotel and helping Kami, we were sent on a mission to find velcro for our poster. However, there is something you must know about New Orleans...everything closes about 5, unless it's on Decatur, or Burbon street and unless it's a resuraunt. I'm sure you've all heard about Burbon street, thus the reason for it remaining open and Decatur is the main street that runs parallel to the river and lots of tourist shops are located there. So we had to find a hardware store that was open, mind you, we left the hotel at 5. So after asking a few people we found there was a hardware store on Burbon street, so we headed down there to find it. We did take a bit to take a picture for proof that we were there. We found the hardware store and were so glad that it didn't close until 6pm (yeah!) and were able to purchase some velcro.
