New Orleans - Part 2

Just wanted to summarize the tail end of our trip with a few photos.

Here are the baby cousins...Brooks (left) and Briggs (right) playing in our makeshift play area at the hotel...so cute :)


And here we are at Cafe du Monde as a family. This place has the best beignets you have every had! So this is our first trip there (it's kind of hard to see Briggs because he fell asleep on our walk there)...


Here is a picture of beignets...if some of you are wondering what exactly that is...basically like a fried donut, just not in the shape of a donut, with powdered sugar on top. And of course, you get coffee to go with it...


For those of you who have never been to New Orleans...thought I would include a few pics of the scenery that my rock star of a husband with a camera..took...



If you locate the tall hotel in the background of this picture...the Sheraton, that's where we stayed while we were there. Right in the middle of all the fun.



You might recognize the scenery of this next picture. Yes...that's us back at Cafe du Monde and yes, that's us eating there for the SECOND time in one day. What can we say...it was yummy and we most probably won't be back in New Orleans anytime in the near future :)

These are our sweet friends...Boyd, Tara and their little girl Sara. We go WAY BACK...I was maid of honor in their wedding and she was a bridesmaid in our wedding. They are precious friends to us and we had such a fun time getting to hang out and catch up.



And finally I wanted to post a picture of our souvenirs from our trip. When we were walking one night in the French Quarter, we found this really cool painting. There are a lot of artists who sell artwork and most of it has to do with New Orleans. Justin and I thought this would be a fun thing to hang up at home.


Then, of course, we had to get an ornament to hang on our Christmas tree for memories of our trip there. The blue glass one is from the aquarium. The other little one has a few New Orleans native things...street sign, crawfish...


Overall it was a great trip. Justin had a successful race, we got to spend time with family and friends and make some great memories.