Leap Year Day in The Big Easy! February 29, 2016

  Today we drove from Chipley to Pensacola where we stopped in to Trumball's Treasures, a sports memorabilia store owned by a neighbor of Michael and Nancy's, a young man, Bradley. It was a nice stop and we bought a few things for a certain grandchild who is baseball mad. (Shhh!)
   Then, we drove on to New Orleans. The weather is in the cool lower 70s, very nice for travel. We are staying at a B and B on North Rampart Street, the Auld Sweet Olive. At first we worried a bit about the neighborhood, but it is wonderful...funky and alive. The owner, Nancy, is a former TV producer (Celebrity Apprentice for 4 years, documentaries). She is also a theater professor at Tulane and the perfect person to run a Bed and Breakfast.

Auld Olive Bed and Breakfast

Mark in the Cypress Room....huge high ceilings

Our neighborhood on N Rampart Street

   She pointed us to the St. Roch Market which is an older building now with 12 different counters of food, rather like a food court in a mall, but much, much better. Mark had a BimBim bowl, a breakfasty-lunch bowl with sausages, rice, eggs, noodles and salad greens mixed with a spicy sauce. I had 6 HUGE oysters. Both were yummy!

My oysters and Mark and his BimBim Bowl

St Roch Market for lunch

What a smile on the oyster shucker!

Tonight we went to a little bar/restaurant called The Three Muses. We had 3 tapas-sized plates and some seltzer water and listened to the Joe Cabral Jazz Thrio (yes, that is not a misspelling). Cabral played the baritone saxophone and there was a drummer and a bass player. It was very nice. Then, we strolled home (about half a mile), looked at the amazing architecture and walked through an outside art exhibit. A lovely evening.

Mark at The Three Muses

Joe Cabral Thrio at The Three Muses

Outdoor art exhibit, craft show