New Orleans/ Abita Springs

January 28- Feb 4, 2011

We spent a week in the New Orelans and surrounding area. The weather was great for the first part of the week, but, towards the end it was brutal, rain, tornado watches, freezing rain just plain cold. We took advantage of the "good weather" and spent one day in the French Quarter went to one of our favs Pat Obriens for hurricanes, listened to some great street musicians, popped into a couple of small bars, had lunch at one of our favs Cafe Maspero on Decatur. We found a small bar with a very unusual name you can see the picture below, its name was "Huge Ass Beers" for real that was the name. Too funny, but true.. they were big

Being big fans of Diners Drive ins and Dives we met boomer friends and went to Louie & The Redhead Lady it was featured a couple of weeks ago. I was dissapointed in the quality of the food. I had the fried green tomatoes which was featured on the show, it was just ok rather bland. While the service was top notch the food just didn't measure up.

We also visited the Abita Brewery (twice) for tours and free samples and when I say samples I mean you get at 12 oz glass and fill it up before the tour, during the tour, and after the tour. While the tour was good, it was really more about tasting the beer... and that we did-

Next stop Biloxi MS....