Waking Up in NOLA

Our hotel in New Orleans is within walking distance to everything!

Love to live the city life...for a week.

(We aren't staying at the DTH)

This morning we walked to breakfast with Steve.

Sophia was full of zip and energy!

Here she stops and strikes a pose.

Cracking up all of us!

Our breakfast joint on the corner,
found it last night on the way to dinner.

Steve was a chicken baby and wouldn't

order the red velvet pancakes!
The name of the cafe comes from the line

in Wizard of Oz, "there's no place like home"...

the sign said that the owner's had a renewed

sense of this after Katrina.

(I was thinking, we ain't in Kansas anymore Toto)

Next stop, the National Park-Jean Lafitte
The office didn't open until 9am, so
we had a little wait time to explore.
And play...

I asked Steve to take this shot of Sophia and me in the tunnel

He kept shooting and I love this photo

Inside the park office, we got our stamp
in our passport and made a buffo mardi gras mask!

This is how we roll...
once again-THANK YOU HELEN
FOR THE DOUBLE STROLLER!!!

Down my the river, watching the ferry boats and river boats

Fun morning walk.

Steve parted from the group to go work on tackle

in the service yard. The kids and I went shopping!