America - New Orleans / Slidell / Pearl River

This past weekend we spent some time with some awesome friends in New Orleans/Slidell/Pearl River. We stayed with our friends George & Carrie - they are awesome!

We went down to the French Quarter on Saturday morning. We haven't been there in a while - It was fun :)

The French Quarter always has fun stuff around :)

Aashini liked the view from the top the best :)

We had some yummy Muffalatas for lunch!! Yum!!

We were there during the Creole Tomato Festival, so there were some fun extra things there (like this balloon lady) :)

French Market!

We got some yummy Slidell Snowballs :)

We got the girls Strawberry - Clear ... doesn't stain the clothes! haha!

Aashini loved it :)

We went to Northshore Church on Sunday and got to see some fun friends (and missed seeing a few too) :) It was soooo good to get to go to Northsore and see everyone!! LOVE that church!!!!

It was a fun trip :)

Comments

Anonymous said…

Balloon lady would have freaked me out as a kid...maybe even still! Looks like a fun time and it is always great to see old friends! Miss you guys!!

2:46 PM

foreverjoyfulleslie said…

Are you sure you're in America? I'm still learning all sorts of cultural stuff. LOL! What's a muffalata???

12:27 AM

Deanna said…

Looks like you guys are having a great time stateside. I'm so glad! Hope it is restful and refreshing!

4:56 PM

Funny Things 2 - American Fair Edition

We just got back from Roadtrip #8 in Macon, GA. It was an awesome trip!! So, before we head out on the next trip, we went to the North Florida Fair! The fair is always famous for it's fried foods... they fried everything!!... They had fried/breaded zucchini, Mushrooms, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Onions, green tomatoes, okra, pickles, etc :) I had a lot of it too - YUM! Now, I'd heard of fried Snickers & twinkies (which they had) but they also had FRIED OREOS & PEANUTBUTTER CUPS :) The fair was cool. They had a shark show and a sea lion show... but our favorite was the pig races :) haha!!! It was hilarious!! Aashini was close up to the race until the pigs came - then she crawled up into Adam's lap really fast :) (as seen below) :) Pig races! haha! Cracks me up!

Protesting

There's some political stuff going on in our city (and now the country) right now. People are peacefully fighting against corruption. It's been very interesting to follow. Tonight there was some protesting in our neighborhood. Here are some more protesting pictures. There will probably be more protesting to come... we'll see what happens!

Cooking!

Cooking is sooo much harder here. THis is how you "puree" vegetables when you don't have a blender or food processor (or power). Some people have those things, but most people don't. This is my friend Gita. She's mashing up some onions. It's a marble slab that's not polished and they use a big rounded rock and just roll/mash! It's cool!!

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