Scenes from NOLA: Street Car Ride

I love the sound of the streetcar.  I used to be able to hear it from my bedroom when I was much younger and living on Prytania Street.  It's certainly one of those NOLA sounds I hope my boys recognize.

Thankfully neither one of them called it the trolley!

Scenes from NOLA: A Snowball

Cherry snowballs all around.  Mama couldn't finish hers because of brain freeze and both the boys abandoned theirs before they were even halfway done.  Shaking my head.  A crying shame.  We're out of practice and that's unacceptable.

Scenes from NOLA: Bay St. Louis Beach

Their swimsuits were stained brown by the murky water draining into the gulf from the Mississippi River, but that didn't matter one bit.  It was a beach with sand and the water was so calm and shallow they could wade out for yards and yards.

Having friends to roll in the sand and water in made it even better.

Scenes From NOLA: Suburban Pleasures

We L-O-V-E Target.  And not going on a regular basis is most likely a good idea for all of us, although my boys needing to touch and examine every last item on the shelf tells me they need some more live retail shopping practice.  Oddly enough they didn't know if they asked for a new set of bakeware or a disco ball to hand from the rearview mirror they'd be met with a firm "Nope."  I wonder how many trips it'd take to break them.  

Nevertheless, time meandering the aisles at Target was enjoyable for all of us.  The boys could have rode the escalator with their cart on the cart escalator all afternoon.  It blew their minds.

Another mind blowing moment was the bouncing, harness contraption in the mall outside of Target.  Sweet Aunt Lizzie sprung for a 5 minute jump session.

We don't get this stuff in the city, but the boys do a good job lapping it up when we're home.

Scenes from NOLA: City Park Edition

One of Mama's childhood memories...

...playing in city park and visiting Storyland.

Filthy, sweaty, and oh so sweet

Always a hit.

And an improvement since I was a kid...Morning Call is now in the old Casino building.

Mr. Pink cheeks needs a old chocolate milk

Who doesn't love a beignet?

Ot I suppose the question is "who doesn't love powdered sugar?"

Busted!  Cannot leave any sugar on the plate.

Scenes from NOLA: Zoo Edition

We've been traveling and had visitors and generally out of pocket, hence no action on the blog.  Sorry to neglect it and my readers.  I do hate not being here, mostly because I love having these posts to look back on.  (If you've been reading for a while try scrolling through some posts from a few years ago...pretty amazing to see life change.)  Anyway, I'm getting caught up and will most likely not do such a great job providing the details but at least it is a glimpse.

While in NOLA we did go to the zoo, but aside from the elephants we didn't visit any animals and headed straight for the Cool Zoo to give the boys some play time.  

The zoo is adding a lazy river to the Cool Zoo which will take floaters on tubes past some animal exhibits.  Cannot wait to try that!

Freddie had been a little timid in years past when it came to the slides and spraying water, but not this year.  I suppose our trips to the Great Wolf Lodge have made him a seasoned pro.

Hans on the other hand was not so interested, I think mostly because he was behind on sleep and a general grump.  Besides, he had other entertainment...

He did get out there a bit though.

We rode the carousel and the boys played at the playground, but the heat had the adults wanting to get to a cool restaurant with frosty mugs.

The heat didn't bother the boys at all, and I loved their pink cheeks.

Great Day!