Today, I won't be around much. We're heading:
Way down yonder in New Orleans
In the land of the dreamy scenes
There's a garden of Eden...you know what I mean
We're going to a museum - perhaps to a Native American exhibit at the New Orleans Museum of Art, or perhaps to a gold exhibit at the Louisiana State Museum - Grandpère's choice. Then we'll eat a delicious lunch somewhere at an undisclosed and, as yet, undecided location. The fans, you know.
Y'all have a good day, and be good while I'm gone.
Have fun and eat something good for all of us. We are stuck in the Pacific NW - due to all the flooding. Things are clearing out now.
ReplyDeleteBon appetite!
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the sights and the tastes!
ReplyDeleteHave fun and can't wait to hear about it!
ReplyDeleteLike i always tell Mama, "if i'm not good i'll be careful at least"
ReplyDeleteHope you have a fun day Grandmère Mimi and that the fans give you some privacy.
ReplyDeleteLindy
"Be good"? Us?
ReplyDeleteHave a great time, Grandmere.
We had a wonderful day and enjoyed delicious food. I'll give you a play-by-play later. I know you can't wait.
ReplyDeleteAnn, I pray you have a safe trip home.
RB, I was neither good nor careful. Your Mama is right, though. Listen to her.
Kirstin, I know I can't expect y'all to be good.
À demain.
We're a gaggle of reprobates, but we love you. :-)
ReplyDeleteand if you can't be good, be careful!
ReplyDeletelooking forward to your return.
when I was a little kid in Jackson MS back in the 70s my grandmother would take us down by train to New Orleans every December. We would do our shopping at DH Holmes (I would get a new DH Holmes blue blazer each year, plus other stuff) and then it was off to Galatoires. An odd Christmas tradition.
ReplyDeleteSo today was a cold Puget Sound day but I was thinking how it didn't feel like Christmas and that got me thinking about New Orleans and DH Holmes and Galatoires.
And then I find out that you were there today.
Mimi when we do the second OCICBW... gathering in New Orleans we are going to have to do a trip to Galatoires.
Back in the 40s my grandparents frequently went into New Orleans for business (Grandfather), shopping (Grandmother), and lunch (both of them) at the Roosevelt Hotel. Since neither of them drove, they hired a Thibodaux taxi for the trip, usually driven by Nolan Benoit. Grandmother wouldn't let him drive more than 40 mph, so it was a long trip.
ReplyDeleteOrmonde, that's a wonderful story. To New Orleans from Thibodaux by taxi!
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