NOLA - I

The Taffs are on the road again!

We're in NOLA for our anniversary.  We had a surprising and eventful, not bad though, afternoon and evening yesterday when we got in, that perhaps I'll share with you later.  I will say though that Eli met a bum in a market off of the French Quarter last night.  It made me nervous, the man was leaned over the stroller showing Eli all of the 'treasures' he'd found picking on the streets that day.  Oh my.  (Sidenote, but, we just saw on the local news that there was a shooting on Bourbon Street last night.  Yikes!)

We slept in this morning and then Wesley went for a run through the French Quarter.  We finally ventured out for the day around lunch.  We headed to the city park (which was very nice) and went to the Storyland section first.  It was really cute!

We tried to take Eli's picture with this lady and the possum (opossum?) sitting in her lap.  We thought it was ridiculous looking, but Eli was terrified of it!  He was nearly climbing and clawing his way up my chest to get away from that thing.

In front of Cinderella's carriage

Daddy and Eli went down this big slide!

The three little pigs and their houses!

There were tons more story book characters and scenes at the park and we walked through and looked at them all.  It was very cute!

They also had an indoor, wooden carousel.  We did this because Eli enjoyed the one at The Magic Kingdom so much.  This time he rode a lion.  We didn't realize until the ride started that the animal we put him on didn't go up and down like the rest.  We didn't move him though because this thing was going fast.  I was getting seriously dizzy and nauseous, but Eli seemed to enjoy it!

Then we found some antique cars that little man played in.  His Daddy set him behind the wheel and he knew just what to do!  He laughed and kept those hands on 10 and 2 - such a natural!

(I love that whenever he gets in a car he always props one arm on the side.  He's such a flirt!)

It was sooo muggy outside that we walked back to the car and rode around looking at all of the mossy oaks and other parts of the park (the place was huge).  We then went back to the room to get ready for dinner tonight.  We went to my cousin's house.  Dinner was delicious and Eli had a lot of fun playing with Austin and Sophie!  We made plans to get together with them again later this week.