A ton has happened, so I'll try to update ya all via pictures. Here's Bri and I at Jazz Fest, watching Richie Havens.
Ever since I watched the Woodstock video, I've wanted to see him perform. He sings 'Freedom' 'Here Comes the Sun," and "Just like a woman."
Since Bri is a mastermind, he scored us volunteering gigs at Jazz Fest so we could get in for free. Bri went for 4 days, and I went for 2, which saved us about 350 buckaroos. WE had to volunteer in the Children's tent for 3 hours a day, and here we are rolling ink on stamps for the kiddos.
Here's the ink press man who made the stamps and we hung out with.
Bri apparently didn't notice, but the first day the actress Maggie Gyllendal came in with her girl to the tent, and later a woman told him who she was. Thankfully, i was able to see her two days later, comin out of the bathroom. Oh star spottin, gotta love it.
My professor, Robby, who was my professor in Australia was in town for Jazz Fest. After 6 almost 7 years of not seeing him, we were reunited... We went to a crawfish boil at his sisters house..yum.
Ironically, we were reunited underneath the "lost kids' sign at jazz fest. This guy has been incredible and he was what pushed and inspired me to do the Peace Corps, as he'd served in Africa.
These pics are out of order, but this is me in the process of mauling my Pork Poboy-which is delicious, has some hot sauce, pork, and spicy coleslaw on it.
Trust me, I'm stoked.
Alligator Sausage Poboy at Jazz Fest.
My favorite once a year pork poboy indulgence..heaven
Shrimp boil at a friends!
Pickin' wild blackberries near City Park w/Bri.
I ended up standing in a huge ol ant pile and the trip ended kinda shortly. But bri went back and picked containers of them. Smoothie Town.
My work bought tickets to go see the Saints play baseball against a military team for a fund-raiser for the Heath Evans Foundation, which provides counseling adn support for sexual assault victims. It was really fun to see these athletes even kick butt at a sport they don't play.
Here's me and coworkers at the game. Sadly, the day after this, my agency laid off me and 2 other workers due to cutbacks. They said that the fair thing to do was lay off the most recently hired...boo... I will be finishing there in May, and then we will see where and what we are being led to do. There are several leads and things going on, so we'll keep you posted!
The place was sold out!
This is in Seaside, where we had to stop , cause Bri said it's one of the first new urbanist community that he's learned about in school. It was pretty cool how it was set up, all very walkable and bike-friendly. SUPER expensive though!
Lil' deer on the way into the State Park Campground we stayed at in Florida.
We headed into Appalachacola, which was 30 miles from where we stayed, and stumbled upon this amazing oyster bar.... 2 dozen oysters, plus 1/2 lb. crab and it was CHEAP!
We never thought we'd be soo hooked on oysters, but the cooked ones have parmeson cheese on them, and the raw ones, you put on a cracker w/horseradish and ketchup and they are DELICIOUS! Let's hope and pray our seafood won't be hurt forever by the horrible oil spill (which people can smell around here, and kids in the parish near it have been getting headaches...soo sad)
Appalachacola
This is where we stayed, right behind the dunes on Cape San Blas, at the State Park Campground. Amazing. 10 miles of untouched beach, for 20 bucks a night.
We were in Florida for my good friends wedding, which was at a house they rented on the Cape, so we were able to walk 20 minutes down the beach to the wedding...too fun!
This is their dog Roxie, who we've dogsat a bunch for. Too cute.
Colleen before the wedding, in her balcony and ready to go.
Hot husband + Hot wife.
THe beach was fabulous...people WERE seeing SHARKS though in the AM and PM, right near the shore as they fished ( bull sharks!) so, we weren't too keen on swimming much.
Back to NAwlins...this was a Crawfish race at a Crawfish boil at a bar near our house....it's amazing, bars have FREE all you can eat crawfish boils, and like I said, since the spill, we are taking advantage while we can. I LOVE hot spicy crawfish! (our crawfish did not win the race :(
My friend Allison and the names of teh crawfish and numbers...
I can probably eat 3-4 lb. now...a lot of people can eat 6-10!
I love pictures of food! This was a breakfast we made, all awesome, local and organic...smoothie, eggs and veggies, gazpacho and Bri's homemade sourdough bread.
This was so fun, my work held a fundraiser at a place called Corks and Canvas, and they teach you to paint a picture and you get to drink wine whenever you're stressed out. Everyone is an artist!
My awesome friend and coworker Ellen, and I.
I didn't take a lot of pictures from French Quarter FEst, as the day we were going, I fell on my bike and banged up my body and slammed my head on the pavement. Thankfully I was wearing a helmet, which literally saved my life that day. We managed to go the next day after my headache was gone, and scored amazign local food for cheap. It's a crawfish and goat cheese crepe and artichoke stuffing. YUM. This food here is to die for.
For our anniversary, Bri and I went to see the production of Wicked. Amazing and so fun at the Mahalia Jackson theater.
This guy swam right over to us and I pet it on the head and then wrestled it in the bayou for a couple of minutes.
Here was part of the awesome meal that we had with my parents. We had to wait two hours at the restaurant for a table (I forgot to get reservations!), but it was well worth the wait.
Our neighbors rescued some baby possums in nearby City Park. We held them on the day they were found. They tried to bottle feed them (which needs to be done every hour), but they all died after a week.
Here's Lindsey riding around on one of the paddle boats in City Park with a couple of her buddies. You can ride all through the bayou in the park, pretty neat.
Ice cream butt.
Lindsey had a job for a little bit, but the agency lost funding so they had to let a couple of the recent hires go. She loved a lot of her co-workers, so the good-bye was hard. Lindsey will be starting to work at a summer camp with the City Parks Department for two months, and then who knows?
One of Lindsey best friends and co-worker, Ellen
So, we went tubing on a river about an hour north of here in rural Louisiana and it turned into Redneck Apocalypse Now. We saw people get beat up, rednecks slamming beer, and domestic violence in the river, and I lost my wedding band. It was great fun.
My parents came down for my graduation weekend and we had a good time going around and seeing the sights. We went back to Jean Lafitte to see alligators and we saw one jump out of the water and dive. He came up eating a fish, it was awesome.
Awww...
Me and my buddy John King, a fellow graduate. There were about 8 other people who finished my program (Urban and Regional Planning), but only 3 walked.
The graduation.
We brought my folks to WINO before my graduation dinner. You walk around and sample any wines you want, it's really cool.
My and Binzer getting ready for the graduation
They give you these sweet hoods, but you don't even wear them. What's the point?!
We introduced everyone to oysters...but now with the stupid oil spill we probably won't be able to eat them again for another 20 years.
We had a backyard pizza party with a couple people from the Planning program. Good times.
