Full day of conference - lots of good info but it's hard to sit in the sessions all day after having been spoiled by the freedom we've had since our arrival here.
8 of us met up after the sessions finished today and hit the town for dinner at La Bayou again where several of us enjoyed their delicious rendition of shrimp and grits with a few fried green tomatoes thrown in for good measure.
After dinner we wandered Bourbon St and played tour guide to the newbies in the group. Nothing too exciting happened until on the way back to our hotel....all hell broke loose when I took my camera out (oh yes...I should admit here that when I'm walking in the Quarter I don't carry any kind of a purse. I keep all my money, and my camera, on my person....and I'll leave the "where" to your imagination). Anyway.....I started to retrieve my camera when beads began to rain from the sky. They were coming from every direction and in every colour under the rainbow. They hit me in the head, on the arm, in the back, in the head again......it was crazy!!
Survived and managed to pick up a couple of strands as souvenirs. Jeez....I wonder what would have happened had I gone for my Master Card?! LOL!!
Great music on the streets again tonight with lots of good energy to support it. Big Al Carson was performing at the Funky Pirate again tonight so we stopped outside the door there to listen for a bit....we wandered up a little further and stopped outside an open window to listen to another group and so on and so on up the street.
All in all....another fun filled night in the Big Easy. We're feeling a lot like locals after having been here for this long and loving every minute of it.
Back at the hotel, there was a group of guys here for another conference (there are 2 or 3 conferences in this hotel right now) and they invited Miss Verna and I up to their hospitality suite where we'd be introduced to partying the likes of which we'd surely never experienced before. We declined of course (like the sweet southern belles we are) and instead signed up to become members of the Starwood Preferred Guest club (some kind of hotel promo) which means that we now have complimentary internet in our room.....yeah!!!! I don't have to go down to the lobby to post to my blog. This is much more relaxing.....p.j.'s and a glass of wine make for a much better post than a rushed post from a public venue where the drinks cost about $15/each!!
Till next time,
Lorrie-Mae
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