In fact lots of times it’s pretty damn good.
I know I tend to bitch and moan a lot, and even though my lunch at Mandina’s did fall through at the last minute, I had a damn fine weekend.
Friday French Quarter Festival and riding the Triumph around the city all afternoon with Cassidy.
Saturday brunch at Elizabeth’s (Eggs Florentine…creamed spinach, potatoes, poached eggs and hollandaise with the best fried oysters I’ve had all season), then Gina’s birthday dinner at Manale’s (way more oysters at the oyster bar than we paid for, then I had the ribeye which was splendiferous).
Sunday, I took Liam over to the weekly music workshop at Tipitina’s, where he got to jam onstage with the New Orleans Saxophone Quartet, and where I got confirmation that he knows enough about the sax to play along with the big folks, with a little coaching:
and then found out much to my surprise that he fucking jams on the drums when somebody asks him to “just lay down a groove”:
We celebrated his jazz debut by hitting opening day at Hansen’s (strawberry with condensed milk for me…it’s a tradition) and right after I took this picture:
the crowds who’d been in line behind me came out looking all sadfaced, and we find out that the ancient motor on the custom sno-bliz machine had burnt out, and they were closing. I got the last sno-ball. Judge Hansen says he’ll hopefully have it fixed by next Thursday so cross your fingers. Sorry. It was a really good sno-ball, too. Heh heh.
Dude.
Liam’s going to grow up to be the next – wait I was gonna say art pepper but there’s a bad patch in there. But still. Tell him I said find a bridge and practice til it hurts.
Your kids are SO cute.
Oh, and, come to hawaii with me sometime and I’ll show you why shave ice is so damned much better than snow cones.
Your kids are so awesome. And the BEST snoball flavor is nectar w/ condensed milk, thankyouverymuch.
Your kids *are* adorable and watching them make music is such a blast. So, did you meet Michael?
Oh, no. Now, I’m worried that he might have been ill-behaved! He was most definitely working last Saturday evening.
Sophmom, I think I might have seen him, but only briefly and I didn’t get a chance to talk to him. They had both dining rooms open on Saturday so he might have been working mostly in the other one.
H, Hansen’s does have ice cream so I’ll ask ‘em.
Ray: Now that’s good livin’.