Well… We are taking New Orleans by storm (I guess that’s not the greatest way to put it, considering). Our 1st stop was a pharmacy museum (dorks? Or geniuses? We can now write part of it off as a business trip). Extremely interesting. In all honesty the set up looked like our back room at the store – so now all of you poor saps who let me fill your prescriptions are gonna be charged a museum fee (nah, not really – if we were charging customers to look at old stuff we’d’a made a fortune off Connie years ago). It is interesting to note NOLA boasts the 1st licensed pharmacist in the US (it was his store we marveled our way through); we do truly love our profession.
We then walked the streets of the French Quarter. Beer to go, daquiries to go, Bloody Mary’s to go… We drank a few beers, Dan had a fantastic Bloody Mary – the liquor drinks scare the hell outta me but I will not leave here without trying a Hurricane (you most likely won’t hear from me later).
We ate gumbo at The Famous Gumbo Pot, and I had grilled redfish and crab at The Red Fish Grill (thank you Mr. Walsh for the heads up). The evening peaked when we ducked into a small hotel bar and listened to some phenomenal jazz. 5 guys, 8 instruments and a hellishly large chandellier over them. Dan was in his glory. While I immensley enjoyed the music, Dan was one with it; he tried to explain “bending a note” on the clarinet – just can’t let me mindlessly enjoy something. As a side note: you have never experienced good music until you’ve seen/heard a big guy rip a Sousaphone.
Now we’re gonna hit the rooftop, heated pool (gotta work off A FEW of those beers anyway); then a brunch cruise on the last authentuc steamboat in the US, a preformance of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and round out the day with a cemetery tour.
Somewhere…. somehow… I’ll get me that hurricane.
Sounds like you’re having a great time. Be safe and have fun.