Writing this post, I’m so sad that Girls Week is over! My sisters are pretty much the greatest, and we all love to explore new places, so this was the perfect trip for us. To kick off our visit to New Orleans we hit a couple of our favorite stops Cafe du Monde (for the beignets) and Jackson Square (for the sights and street performers).
We also tried a new restaurant St. Roche Market. It was so good and unique. It was a big market with 12 different restaurants inside, kind of like a food court idea, but waaaaaay cooler, tastier, and overall more exciting than a food court. I ordered the Morning Bowl from Juice NOLA and Nick got the crawfish poutine from Fete au Fete . And Jay got a cupcake for dinner from Bittersweet Confections because he threw a massive screaming tantrum and we caved…not our finest parenting moment. But hey, the cupcake was delicious! Seriously every single thing we ordered was amazing, I’m definitely making a point to stop there at least a couple more times before we move back to UT in a month.
this is what my sisters and niece ordered
We spent the rest of the evening wandering around the French Quarter, laughing and playing games and enjoying the beautiful sights. New Orleans really is such a unique and cultural place, with so much history!
watching some street performers! There were some really talented people.
my sweet sisters!
We did the same swamp tour we did with Nick and his co-workers, with my sisters. The experience was super different though because we had a different tour guide and were with a different crowd of people (older people rather than 18-22 year olds).
This tour was amazing! The guide shared so much information about the trees, birds, landscape, etc. But we also saw a lot of alligators this time too. We actually saw one eating a fish whole, two feet from our boat. It was so awesome and a little unnerving.
It was seriously so wonderful having them visit. My sisters are such special and beautiful people. Also, I’m starting to think we need to pick cool places to move every summer to convince friends and family to come visit!
Now wish us luck packing all of the things we still want to do in Louisiana into the last month we’re here!