Headed Home

Yes, it's a couple of days since I've been home and I'm just getting around to telling you about my last day.  It's only because I'm home sick in bed that I have time to do this. I thought I got away with having an illness free trip when I made it through two weeks in Scotland without as much as a headache...but the short trip to New Orleans kicked my ass two days after getting home.  Anyway, on to telling you about the end of the New Orleans trip.

We got up an hour earlier than we had Saturday and Sunday in order to hit the road as early as possible.  We had packed the night before, so it was showering and dressing before packing up the car.  As we were about to take off down the street, we noticed that the parking pass was still in the windshield, so I got to take another trip up the 3 flights to return it.

After a bit of getting turned around in the French Quarter, we found parking right next to Cafe Du Monde and got in the very short line.  We actually got seated *inside* and ordered our beignets and (iced) cafe au lait.  I discovered two things...beinget are the exact same thing as the fried dough we used to get at the county fair when I was a kid and I like coffee with chickory.

When we were finished, and gathered our bag of beignets to go for Christi's mom we headed next door to Aunt Sally's Prailines.  We poked around the shop for a bit and bought some last minute goofy souvenirs, including a Mardi Gras mask and a Voodoo doll. Then we headed out of town and home.

Unlike the trip to NOLA, the roads were clear through Baton Rouge and we made good time.  We stopped at Boudreaux's Cajun Trio in Iowa, LA for lunch.  Although my serving of grilled crawfish was a bit small, it was enough to fill me up with my baked potato and side salad.

I took over driving for a bit, and we took a brief break at the Texas border to get some tourist info so that we can do some fun Texas stuff on weekends this summer.  We had been forewarned about some severe thunderstorms heading our way and we hit them right around Houston.  It was coming down in buckets.  Luckily, we had already decided to stop at Buc-ee's in Waller, TX.

I love Buc-ee's.  It's a convenience store chain here in Texas that *always* has clean bathroom and an endless supply of  beaver nuggets.

Christi took over driving after that.  The rain eventually ended and we made it home.  Ta-Da!

And now I'm sick.