We Never Miss a Good Aquarium

It's true. If there is an aquarium, zoo or animal exhibit of any kind within 100 miles of where we are traveling, we go. New Orleans was no exception. This time it was the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas. We saw tons of cool stuff.

And posted stupidly in front of other cool stuff.

It's our way. We have a super-mega-cool-crazy Fourth of July weekend planned, so stay tuned!

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Un-Touristy Tourism

So the nice thing about staying with locals was that we got to do lots of New Orleans things, only some of which were touristy. We of course did Cafe du Monde.

Jackson Square and the French Quarter.

That's right, Eddy is nerding up the FQ. But we also had some amazing parade experiences! Laura and Kijai took us to Pride and to an amazing second line!

In second lines, parade goers march alongside the parade and dance along to the brass band. It was great fun, but also really freakin' hot.

To keep parade goers happy, there were plenty of mobile coolers and also truck bars.

If ever you have the opportunity to see a second line in NOLA, do it. And bring ice water.

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Improvised High School Reunion

I recently missed my 10 year HS reunion (for the second time-ish). I couldn't attend, because of conference travel in NOLA. The good news (other than the fact that we went to New Orleans) is that my BFF from HS lives in NOLA!

When I wasn't at ALA, Laura and Kijai showed us the town!

We even got friendly with their sweet little rescue Chicory.

More on what we did to come!

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