Traveling With Barney

Friday, December 23, 2016

NOLA to Conroe TX : Getting out of NOLA

After picking up a little snack at the hotel, we went to pick up our REAL breakfast and our orders for Christmas at

MOTHER'S RESTAURANT

401 Poydras

New Orleans, LA 70130

Tel: (504) 523-9656

Egg and Cheese Po-Boy and Debris and grits

Next Stop:

Cafe du Monde

Outlet Collection at Riverwalk

500 Port of New Orleans Suite 27

70130 New Orleans

(504) 218-7993

Open Hours

Mon-Sat 8am-9pm

Sun 8:00am-7pm

More about the other things we picked up at Mother's later.

Beignets in powdered sugar

Now to get back on the road to Port Charles.

Thursday, December 22, 2016

NOLA : Harrah's Casino

The Miracle on Fulton Street is Harrah's Casino's outdoor Christmas lighting display complete with fame snow being blown into the crowd.

NOLA - Café Adelaide

After we left the dogs at the hotel, we went to happy hour at Café Adelaide

www.cafeadelaide.com/

Cornfried Catfish Taco

Shrimp Corn Dog

NOLA - Hotel and Bourbon Street

Once again the La Quinta Inn and Suites cam through! Pet rooms are on the 8th and 9th floors.

The room was a nice and the dogs loved it!

We took them for a walk on Bourbon Street. They were a bit overwhelmed. So we took them back to the hotel and went to dinner.

Next:

NOLA - Southern Food and Beverage Museum

After lunch at Toups, we visited the Southern Food and Beverage Museum, 1609 Oretha C. Haley Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70113 | 504-267-7490

This is an interesting museum. It does not have the luxury of the space I associate with other museums and galleries. The offer classes and lectures. Next visit to NOLA we hope to attend one of these.

There is the Popeye's Chicken and Al Copeland Area:

There is the Piggly Wiggly corner

There are newspaper clippings of interest

A fancy Waffle Iron

This is the Absinthe Bar

This is indicative of the rest of the museum: closely arranged tableau of loosely associated items. Because the items are all so familiar, for the most part, this might be confused with a yard sale or an antique store.

Next: to the hotel!

Prattville AL to NOLA and Lunch at Toup's South

This morning we actually had breakfast at the hotel. We are planning lunch in NOLA.

While driving we came saw signs for Harper Orchard Pecans, 10331 Potter Tract Rd, Grand Bay, AL 36541; (251) 423-1736

The Cracking Machine - The pecans are not fully shelled, they are just cracked. This means you slow down while eating them, because you have to work for them!