Welcome, y’all! I took a trip down to New Orleans with a few friends. Hanging with them on Bourbon Street over the St Patricks Day weekend was a great party!

While down there I enjoyed some excellent food. Most places had outdoor seating. Some even had balcony seating with a decent view of Bourbon Street. The best dish I had was the shrimp creole at Crescent City Brewhouse. A muffuletta is a large, round, sandwich filled with salami meat, mozzarella cheese, pickles and topped with an olive salad.

On the forgettable side of the culinary scale were the burgers at the White Castle wanna-be restaraunt called Krystals. This place was horrible. It did not help that they upset some of our party by messing up orders and trying to re-serve food that was returned by another patron.

We spent quite a bit of time at two places, the Cats Meow and the Tropical Isle. The Cats Meow was a very popular karoke bar. I do not get the whole listen-to-the-drunk-fool-sing-shallow-pop-songs. But the view from the balcony upstairs was very nice. I witnessed one of the St Patricks Day parades there.

The Tropical Isle features a drink named the Hand Grenade. Our group loved it. Upstairs features a balcony with a great view and a few billiards tables with Madri Gras videos showing on the TV.

It was interesting to see a webcast radio station right on Bourbon Street. The FastBand.com features information about artists as they are playing and has a webcam pointed right on the street. While I was down there I waved to one very cute DJ. I bet I can chat with her online. Ah, yes, gotta love technology!