And this one is a picture of me riding the motor scooter. Vroom Vroom!
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.
During the tour we also took a little pit stop. When we started we were given this little sticker that would get us a free soda when we stopped and so...here I am!
It was after the tour that Prof. Hanson and Prof. Costley started to get sick, so when they went to their rooms Michelle and I hit the town! We did some shopping and walked around A LOT! We really got to know the french quarter! We had a blast. 
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.
Thursday, Shelly had a class in the morning and Kami was so sick, so Michelle and I went shopping again and then to the aquarium. This was taken in the entry way of the room "Coral Reef". Lots of fishes that are found in the Coral reef. 
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.
This is a better picture of a balcony.
That night we drug Kami out of the hotel and went to dinner. Then Shelly wanted to see the night life on Burbon street, so we headed down there again and fortunately don't have any proof of us being there then, because anything we would've taken a picture of that would be appropriate to post anywhere would be the sidewalk. :) It was fun to see the band that we found in a bar called Fat Cats, but other than that, it was just trashy! 
Friday morning we had to set up or poster board for our presentation and before presenting we went to Cafe du Monde for Shelly to try a beignet. On the way back Michelle made a command decision (finally :) ) to buy this piece of luggage she had been eyeing since we got there. Truthfully, it's easy to spot on the baggage claim! And it's really cute!
Stay tuned for more...for now...I'm tired.
When we got there it was POURING rain! I totally thought I was done with that at camp, but lo and behold, we all had to purchase ponchos! 
This is Michelle, Shelly Costley, me and Kami at the Red Fish Grill, which was really really good! I ordered the Red Fish with a lemon butter sauce and I really liked it. Michelle and Kami ordered red fish as well, but it had mushrooms on the description and I hate mushrooms. None the less, I tried it and it was acutally really good!
On Wednesday we went to the Riverwalk that is a pier that follows the river. It was nice and I'm sure quite a happening place before the storm. At least I assume, because there wasn't a whole lot of action down there, but there were a few restraunts that were deserted. However, they do have a Riverwalk shopping center and the entryway to that is what is in the background.
A little later we went on a Hurricane Katrina tour that took us around New Orleans and the surrounding areas so that we could see the areas that were effected. It was kind of sad to see all the houses that are still deserted today. Other than this tour we stayed in the French Quarter, which was not really effected by the storm and wasn't really touched during the flooding. OUr tour guide said that the area that the french quarter was built on by the settlers who first settled there was the high ground. That's why they built there, however, mostly everything else is under sea level, and so when the canal walls broke, the water flooded those areas.
This is one of many houses that has been deserted. They are trying to sell, but there is a lot of work to do. You can kind of see the water lines along the house. Keep in mind that the water was 2-3 feet above those lines. Quite sad, it's such a cute house.
This is the only picture I have of our bowery. The theme was "No place like home" and so we took up couches and end tables and all this 'homey' stuff. So this is a pic of our camp director and one of our girls and the thing in the middle is our heater! We just put all the couches up around it. It was better by Friday, but I will now remember to throw a poncho in whenever I go camping! And this is one of the only pictures I was in...
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Oh my Handsome Rob! Rob's B-day was on April 2, but I haven't been able to get my pictures on my computer until now. I just think he's such a hot stud! He's the best thing ever! Here are 25 things about my 25 year old boyfriend!
6. He loves food! I swear he's an endless pit the way he eats. I don't know what he does w/ it.
7. He works the evening shift at UPS.
8. He served a mission in Georgia and worked very hard!
9. He can't wait until he can be home at nights
10. He loves jeeps and can't even fathom getting rid of his 1987 CJ-7.
11. He gets stressed out very easily b/c he doesn't want to let himself down.
12. He is an awesome Primary teacher! The kids LOVE him!
13. The first thing he does when he gets up is shave.
14. He always expects me to be the strong one and get out of bed first. Then he continues sleeping until I'm showered and dressed.
15. He loves talking about sports with his best friend Kenny. They always talk about how it will be when they coach high school football together. Whenever they talk, he's always so energetic the rest of the night.
16. He gets a little tempermental when he gets hungry. I've just learned when he's grumpy, all he needs is food. :)
17. He would do anything for me.
18. He studies harder than anyone I know.
19. He loves to read and wants to have a big plethura of books one day.
20. When he listens/ watches sports, he gets really focused!
Okay, so whoever knows how I can add something to my blog that will allow me to just add a ton of pictures so that I can have for ideas...let me know. Seriously. I see so many pictures that have ideas that I love...but I need some way to keep them (just the picture) so I can refer back to them...maybe I'll have to ask Prof. Hanson. But if anyone knows, share the knowledge! Until then, these are some cute ideas that I really liked.
I would LOVE a craft room like this one day! Does this not just say FUN!
These were some cute ideas from the same site.
A super cute valentine...to bad I didn't see these last week.
Yummy! Looks good!
And due to a request from my dad...The 2007 5A Utah State Wrestling Champs! After a few years in 2nd place, the Warriors stepped up to dominate the tourney and won by a landslide!
Way to go Warriors!
I love shoes! And I've been trying to get this super cute pair of boots by Nine West off of eBay.
However, I've been trying to bid on them for the last two weeks and keep gettting beat at the last second! Nuts! So the other dayI decided I might as well just place a bid on these pretties by Steve Madden
I don't like them as much as the other ones, and in all honesty thought I'd be outbid again, but no...I won them. So now I'm awaiting my boots! I'm excited, but probably not as excited as if I won the other ones, I really like the worn look of the Nine west ones, but I guess I'll just have to break the ones I got in! I've been tracking them, and in two days, they've only made it to New Jersey! Seriously! Oh well, their expected arrival date is Feb 1...that's in two days. I gues I can wait that long.
These are the roses Rob surprised me with on Thursday night for an early anniversary present.
