Some great songs with or about New Orleans; The Animals, Arlo Guthrie….an easy place to like going to. As long as you don’t stray too much from touristy-lands.
Jackson Square, New Year’s Eve. We will be standing right around here later tonight, watching the Honey Island Swamp Band in the drizzling rain, waiting for the fleur-de-lis to drop and the fireworks to go off over the Mississippi.
Biggest unexpected highlight of the trip; the All-State Fan Fest that was set up just to the south of Jackson Square (in prime real estate I fondly remember from my Katrina days as being home to the Federal mess tents…had some good meals there!)
So the boys ran the shuttle drill (Matthew had the best time; Kevin couldn’t beat it). And of course Matthew tried to make some 25 yd field goals. Just missed on both attempts I filmed….click on the picture above for the video though.
Not overly enthused to be here….but had a good time walking around. They noticed how NO is more like a European city than a lot of other American places they have been too….
With all of the Alabama/Oklahoma talk that we’ve had with Kevin, it was kind of funny for the Sugar Bowl matchup to be the Battle of Crimson. We told Kevin he had to go to the school who won; he, even before he stated ‘Bama wasn’t really in the picture, said the game was an elimination match….loser is out!
Café Du Monde; home of beignets and hot chocolate that was so hot that you could barely sip it 30 minutes later. Of course the lines were crazy….of course we went there. Twice even!
NYE; Kevin watching the band waiting for the fireworks….
New Years Day. Hey, when you’re almost 6’-2” you can walk around New Orleans drinking a hurricane (thoughtfully provided by the parents) and not have anyone bat an eye! Lunch on NYD was at Pat O’Briens….was a pretty good hurricane-y lunch!
After lunch, we wandered our way back over to the Fan Fest…they had said that they would be showing other bowl games, so, MSU-Stanford was on for the Rose Bowl and we stood around watching that awaiting the free Imagine Dragons concert. We thought they would show the game during the concert, but, no, that didn’t happen. That’s ok, the concert was plenty fun enough…it took a while to get to the three songs that anybody who listens to Top Forty type stuff in 2013 would know, but, it was cool when they got to them.
We didn’t have the best seats (seats, hah! stood the whole time) and we could have been a lot closer if we wanted to be but decided to hang back so we weren’t packed in so much for so long. The concert was beamed out over the internet, so, I went and grabbed the three songs off of youtube and copied them down (and then copied them back up) for storage here and for all time. So, if you are really really curious, you can click on either of the three pictures below for that song.
It’s Time – Imagine Dragons
Demons – Imagine Dragons
Radioactive – Imagine Dragons
