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!

Comic Con 2013

Comic Con 2013 just ended. It was a fun one this year. This was the 3rd Annual Comic Con here. We've been to it all 3 years. It's getting bigger each year! I think they grew out of their venue this year...it was soooo crowded! Here's me imitating "Superkudi" :) Aashini and me :) For the Love of Comics... Some guys that were dressed up... the guy on the left isn't in his full attire... He won the CosPlay contest that day... he won a trip to Dubai to their Comic Con!! This was my favorite costume of the day... Nyan Cat :) There were lots of people there! Me and the girls on the 2nd day :) I had to have at least one jumping picture :) Our friend Ford made a video of the first day... check it out!

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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