New Orleans {Day Three} The French Quarter

Tweet In 1718, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville founded what has became known as the Vieux Carré or French Quarter. Back then, this registered national historic landmark was nothing more than a sticky swamp filled with ‘gators, mosquitoes and malaria, but at three feet above sea level, it was – and remains – the [...]

New Orleans {Day Two} BOBNOLA

Tweet So what do movie star Bette Davis, 20 million pounds of sugar and a solid silver carving of President Abraham Lincoln have in common? They’re all connected to Houmas House Plantation – one of the best preserved ante-bellum mansion and grounds that litter the banks of the Mississippi River in Louisiana – and the [...]

New Orleans {Day One}

Tweet . There’s a tenement building in the French Quarter that’s haunted….ok, according to our Ghost tour guide, there are a lot of haunted buildings in the French Quarter. But I’ll get to that later. Chris and I had all day to wonder around the Quarter, before we planned to meet up with Trisha, Leah, [...]

What Fun!

Tweet Ray and I had an absolute blast in New Orleans this last weekend. As you may know, it wasn’t just the two of us all weekend, but we specifically went to hang with the fabulous Bloggers on Bourbon (aka BOBNOLA) gang. I can’t wait to tell you all about it, but first I must [...]