Sunday, March 4, 2012

The Big Easy


The drive from Longboat Key to New Orleans can't be done in one day. We chose Tallahassee as a stop over point. It was pouring rain as we pulled in. If it has to rain, it might as well be on a day we have nothing planned. We ate in the hotel and ventured no farther than the parking garage. Although, what we could see of the city was very nice. We arrived in New Orleans after noon. Interstate 10 considerately dropped us right onto Canal Street. Our hotel is one block off Canal and 2 up from the French Quarter. The Roosevelt is by far the most elegant hotel we have stayed in this trip. Thanks to our loyalty to Hilton and our penchant for charging everything with our Hilton card, we were upgraded to a suite. We dumped out bags and headed to the French Quarter for lunch. We stopped at the first place, Desire, for gumbo and jambalaya. A stroll through the Quarter to Jackson Square and a look at the Big Muddy filled the remainder of the afternoon. That night we stopped in the Roosevelt's bar for Sazaracs, a blend of a rye whiskey, bitters, absinth, and herbsaint and the official cocktail of New Orleans. The bar has a fabulous atmosphere. I can do no better than send you to the site for a read and look at it. For more pictures visit my flicker