Hi all,

My wife and I decided to go to New Orleans for New Years because we could. Never been there so we thought we'd give it a try. While getting some recommendations on the dress code I was told to post some pics, so here they are.

For New Year's dinner we dressed up and went to Emeril's Delmonico.

Here's us setting in the bar waiting for our table. I'm in my Navy kilt (still haven't got a new one yet give me a little time) and my PC. My lovely wife next to me (probably noticed her first) was already mad about black tie so she ordered no vest.


The glass in front contains a 12 year Macallan. The scotch selection was beyond the understanding a a dabbler such as myself. Let's just say this was on the low end of prices which went up to $60 a glass.

Here's us at dinner. The lovely lady is no salad eating waif. Give her a lovely steak any day. While perfectly cooked she says the taste wasn't anything special. I had duck confit with lentils, beets and kale. I could have made an entire meal of the skin which was heavily seasoned and crispy. The duck was fork tender.


After dinner we changed into something a little more casual and headed down to the French Quarter. Unfortunately the holiday season hasn't been good for me or maybe a little too good. The kilt did not fit well so it was into pants until I can get an x-kilt done up and get my butt back running. Since we had never been to NOLA we had no idea what to expect. Let's just say there was a lose of innocence. Here is a shot at the entrance to Bourbon Street that we happen to start our tour of the French Quarter.


Since we would like to keep the site "G" rated I'll skip some of the pics from our trip down to Jackson Square for the dropping of the Fluer de Lis. Per the locals and the police this was the most crowded New Year's anyone could remember. Here is a shot about 30 minutes to midnight. It got so bad that even the police horses were panicking. It was on the level of Mardi Gras.


We thought we would try a NOLA landmark just over from the square, Cafe du Monde. Big mistake. Here a shot of the cafe. To give you an idea I would give a conservative estimate of at least a hundred people in line.


Some of the other places we went this past weekend were Pat O'Brian's, the aquarium and the WWII Museum but the post is getting long here so we'll skip all those pics for now.

Jim