Last year, as The Committee to Celebrate 2000 was
wrapping up preparations for our "Party
of the Century" on New Year's Eve,
we began planning for a trip to New Orleans.
After a year of major developments in many of our lives, a somewhat smaller (but no less enthusiastic) group made the trip.
To those who went: let's do it again!
To those who didn't : please join us next time!
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Here's a self portrait of Colleen & Eric on the balcony
at the Bourbon Orleans, on
Wednesday, December 6. It was our third wedding anniversary!
(We secretly organized the trip to relive our honeymoon!) |
| Eric, Clancy, Becka and Colleen at the Gumbo Shop. Our meal included turtle soup, smothered greens, chicken andouille gumbo, bread pudding -- and too much wine! |  |
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Deb and Colleen at Cafe
Du Monde. Other than the aggressive pigeons, we had a really nice snack
of beignets and cafe au lait.
Of course, this was after a breakfast of Ragin' Cajun omelettes and fried oysters at Pere Antoine's, so we could afford to share our food with the birds! |
| Colleen and Eric in the courtyard at Pat
O'Brien's.
It's one of Deb's favorite things: afternoon cocktails. Very civilized. We opted for the mint juleps. |
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Colleen & Deb -- back on the balcony at the hotel. |
| Say, what are Paul, Eric, Clancy and Don looking at? |  |
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Why, it's a Playboy photo and video shoot, at the nightclub
across the street!
Some of the aspiring Bunnies came out into the street to videotape a promo for HBO. (Yes, we could see right in the windows. No, you may not see the pictures we took.) |
| Nancy & Don are ready for a night out
on the town.
Colleen and Eric had a 'date' that night. We went to Dickie Brennans's Steak House -- yum yum! |
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