6th Anniversary Trip: New Orleans, LA

With our anniversary being so close to Christmas (two weeks after) and no need to buy each other an additional present Jerod and I typically try to take a few days off of work to get away and relax. This year (a few weeks after our anniversary proper) we drove to New Orleans, LA!!!!!!!!!!!!! The drive took about 11 hours and wasn't too bad, on the way there we went the back way through southeastern OK, the corner of AR, and into LA and the way home we went the more direct route of LA into TX and up into OK. We had a wonderful time, weather (except for small rain storms and a horrible rain storm on the drive home), food, everything! Here are some of the highlights.

We stayed a beautiful hotel (the Place De Armes) right by Jackson Square.

Did tons of walking and exploring during the day.

Went to the Marie Laveau museum

The aquarium

Rode the trolley (sorry!!! STREETCAR) through the Garden District. It was cool to see people starting to put up their Mardi Gras decorations.

Went on a National Parks Service tour of the river front. It was cold that morning but our tour guide was excellent! I would recommend this tour to anyone.

Ate and drank (or maybe it was the other way around?)

. . .and went for a night time Ghost Tour. Not that spooky but very informative. Supposedly, most people have "orbs" or abnormalities show up in the photos they take during the tour. . .we did not. Although, my friend Megan showed me pictures her brother took on the same tour and that had tons of orbs, so who knows.

Goodbye NOLA. . .the Belteau-Gerfen's had fun.

366 Project: Week 5

I've made it through month 1! I think I will keep this thing up.

January 29

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February 1

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366 Project: Week 4

A quick note. . . I have noticed that in my first 366 project posts I have labeled the photos differently each week (I guess I need to work on my editing) for the sake of consistency each picture will be labeled with the date from this point forward. Okay. . . on to the Week 4 photos!

January 22

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January 28

I just noticed this was a food centric week.

366 Project: Week 3

21 days down 345 to go!

366 Project: Week Two

Here is the week as I saw it. Enjoy!

2012 (week 2)

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Let's Try This Again

Obviously,I have been exceedingly lazy and less than disciplined about blogging, I would like to be better about this for a couple of reasons:

1: I love to see what my friends and family are up to. . . leading me to assume they want to see what I am doing too.

2: I like documenting what I've accomplished and being able to look back and see the progress I've made on my ever growing list of projects, goals, and hobbies.

I decided as a way to document the year and structure my blog posts (at least a tiny bit) I would participate in the 365 day photo project. I have seen some other bloggers and friends doing this and I think it will be fun to look back at my photos at the end of the year and it will let all of you see what catches my eye on a daily basis (expect more than a few cat pictures). My plan is to do a 365 day project post every Monday posting the pictures from previous week Sunday-Saturday and then posting on projects (house, yard, crafts, cooking as I accomplish things). We'll see how it goes. . . .

2012 (week 1)

January 1

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