The weather is not looking too good for our crossing to Biloxi on Wednesday. They are calling for 15 to 20 kts wind with 3 to 5 foot seas. This is not good for our kind of boat. We don't do rock and roll!!!! It looks like we will be staying in New Orleans until the weather decides to cooperate for us!
Today is downtown (French Quarter) play day! We'll start with beignets and coffee at Cafe Du Monde.
We walked around the marketplace and up and down multiple french quarter streets looking in shops and listening to street musicians.
The aroma in the french quarter still STINKS! Maybe it was just really bad because it was a Monday, right after a weekend with a football game. As we continued walking, Josh said "look, that looks like Barb and Barry's daughter-in-law's paintings". Sure enough, it was and the store salesman said that we just missed her!
We all gathered for lunch at Desire Bistro, part of the Royal Sonesta Hotel. This is a favorite place of Al's.
As we were walking around after lunch Ernie noticed he did not have his phone. Back to the Restaurant he went but they said it was not there. On to a bar where he earlier had a beer and it was not there either. It was starting to look like Ernie was going to go phone shopping tomorrow, when Camille received a phone call from the restaurant saying they had the phone and would give it to the Hotel to keep until they could pick it up. In the meantime Kay noticed that she did not have her glasses! Here we go again! Backtrack time for Kay. She finally found them in a shop where she took them off to try on a hat. While we were waiting for the bus back standing outside a restaurant, we noticed some mermaid statues inside the entrance. They were really big mermaids! The maitre d' said they were haunted and were part of the New Orleans haunted tour. I asked if both were haunted and she said she was not sure, it may only be one of them.
We caught the 4:00 PM bus back to the marina, but first Ernie and Camille asked the bus driver if he would stop at the Royal Sonesta Hotel so they could pick up his phone. He agreed. On the way to the Hotel we saw a "silver lady" walk by. Oh yeah, she was topless and spray painted silver all over except for her small bikini bottom. She was walking too fast to get a picture. DARN... The talk on the bus was that we would see her again on the way to the Hotel, and we did - but could not get a picture because of the sun film on the bus. Oh, the painted people of the french quarter!!!!
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