Carnival Glory - LIVE - Aug 25-Sep 1 - NOLA - Montego Bay, Grand Cayman, Cozumel

[Saint Greg]

PJ’s is like Starbucks only better. It was started in the 80’s by Phyllis Jordan. Her first store was uptown. Phyllis sold the company about 20 years ago. Now its franchised all over Louisiana And Mississippi. Then there are a few other stores located randomly around the country. 

 

 

[Saint Greg]

My home for the night

 

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[Saint Greg]

please don’t die on me, Mr. Coffee

 

 

[Saint Greg]

I have a bad history with some of these buildings.

 

This one I got hit in the face with a beer bottle

 

 

This one I drank too many hand grenades and woke up so sick I threw up...everywhere

 

[Saint Greg]

If you want to get an idea of what’s going on here, this Cam is like two blocks down from my hotel.

 

https://www.earthcam.com/usa/louisiana/neworleans/bourbonstreet/?cam=catsmeow2

 

 

[Saint Greg]

Old absinthe house

 

This is where the pirate John Lafitte met with Andrew Jackson to discus cooperation in the war of 1812. 

 

 

 

 

[Saint Greg]

Dixie blackened voodoo

 

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[Saint Greg]

I hate to report that the weather has taken a turn for the worse.

 

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Hey look...while I’m stuck here..there’s the Louisiana Supreme Court

 

[Saint Greg]

The weather held up long enough for me to get to my next destination. 

 

This is Antoine’s Restaurant. It’s one of the Big New Orleans restaurants. I think they have a dress code. If you want to get taste of Antoine’s without going to Antoine’s you can go right past it to the Hermes bar. Antoine’s invented the oysters Rockefeller in 1889 and that’s what I’m going to get.

 

 

 

[Saint Greg]

Hey look at that. If you’ve been to Jamaica you know this is one of the tours.

 

[Saint Greg]

Paris lemon drop

 

[Saint Greg]

This news disappoints me verily. They won’t do oysters Rockefeller until 5:30. The bartender even went back to the kitchen and asked...or at least he said he did. For all I know he went back and took a bathroom break then came back in “I pleaded with them sir, they just won’t do it.”

[Saint Greg]

Little league World Series is on in all the bars Louisiana 1 Hawaii 0

[ULCajunCruiser]

The team is from River Ridge, LA, just outside of New Orleans!!   They are now up 5-0, hitting in the top of the last inning!!

 

Oh, meant to tell you how much I enjoy your reviews!!

Edited August 24, 2019 by ULCajunCruiser

[indygirl76]

1 hour ago, Saint Greg said:

This news disappoints me verily. They won’t do oysters Rockefeller until 5:30. The bartender even went back to the kitchen and asked...or at least he said he did. For all I know he went back and took a bathroom break then came back in “I pleaded with them sir, they just won’t do it.”

Sounds good to me - you have an excuse to sit and enjoy cocktail hour! :)

[Saint Greg]

No space available in the bars I wanted to visit so I’m working on making my way to Hansen’s Sno Blitz which I missed yesterday after the WWII museum. It’s a challenging trip with all of the streetcar closures but I’m on one and ready to depart.

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If you’re cruising out of New Orleans this time of year you want to try to get a snowball. 

 

The problem is they don’t open until 1pm. That makes it difficult stop by before or after the cruise unless you’re staying here. Where are they at in the morning? They’re in there making syrups fresh each day with spring water and cane sugar.

 

People think it’s a snow cone. It’s not a snow cone. It’s different. 

 

 

 

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[Saint Greg]

This is the chocolate with condensed milk

 

[Saint Greg]

Once I got my snowball I realized we were 45 mins from the start of the Saints game and there no way anyone was going to let me in their car with that.

 

So I started eating and walking. It was nice and cool out after the rain...and right around the time I finished I reached this

 

 

This is the place I was talking about earlier. The brewery owned by former saints OT current saints radio play by play announcer Zach Strief. The place where Drew Brees celebrated his birthday.

[Saint Greg]

I decided to settle in here for the first half and then I’ll catch an Uber l/lyft back to the quarter

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