Ummm…hello beautiful oak trees, I could spend all day under you. Oak Alley Plantation.
Cafe Du Monde…home of the famous beignets…yum!! Riding trolleys, dancing to the street music, walking on the levees, riding the ferry, touring a plantation, drinking mint julep, shopping (note the safari type hat Grant is sporting…if you know him at all you know he loves hats…took him about an hour to choose this particular one from a New Orleans hat shop), swimming, watching the IMAX and walking through the Garden District…the only place I didn’t really take pictures and I wish I had. The homes were amazing, huge mansions, they reminded me of the homes in Savannah, times ten! Swamp tour will be on the next post
Grace spent a lot of time on Dad’s shoulders…but both she and Grant were troopers with all the walking we did.
Even though Grace may look a bit dismayed in these next pics…she’s really not and simply enjoying the trolley, so much that she is breaking out in song…
Mark and I probably said to each other about ten times how glad we were we took this little trip…
Karen - Fabulous! I love it all! I’m so happy for you to have a great little getaway. Happy times! As always, your pictures are amazing.
Dawn - Had a college friend that her hometown was New Orleans… we went often to visit her family. I am not a big seafood/creole person but oh how I devoured beignets!! We went often during Mardi Gras but I preferred the times we didn’t (quiet and less crowded, of course)… loved the Garden District, trollies, and street vendors. I haven’t been in so many years and Shawn has never been, I should go show him around…
Quincy - Wow, those plantation pictures are just absolutely incredible! This looks like such fun times for your family. A little getaway can be so special. Good times for the Greenfields! You should frame that last picture of you and Mark.
Sara - What an amazing adventure! I love how you are livin’ up your time in the south. It totally reminds me of what your mom would have done if she were in your shoes. I’m curious to know how far of a drive it was.
Charity - I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the tree pictures! So beautiful! If I could, I’d live my life in a hammock under those gorgeous trees! I think my blood pressure lowered just looking at them!