Summer vacay in the Big Easy

As I stated in the last post, our plan last week was to go to New Orleans to fetch James and Audrey and hopefully take them to do a few things around the city that they hadn’t done. Thankfully, we were able to follow through on those plans and even though Jon and I were slightly exhausted during our morning jaunts with the chirren, we had the best time we’ve had together in a long time!!

On Wednesday we took them to eat lunch at Camellia Grill a favorite of locals and tourists. We all got cheeseburger’s and cokes and chocolate freeze’s (imagine a Wendy’s Frosty but better!). James insisted on taking both of his drinks with him!

After lunch we headed to the Louisiana Children’s Museum and I must say that’s the coolest place ever for kids! I had never been before and had almost as much fun as the kids. We spent about 2 1/2 hours in there and if Jon and I hadn’t hit the horrible afternoon slump to which we could barely keep our eyes open let alone follow the kids around as they darted here and there and everywhere with a seemingly endless amount of energy, we would of stayed all afternoon. Talk about the perfect place for kids to learn and use their imaginations! There was so much and we took so many pictures that I just tried to include their favorite things (the ones we visited 3 or 4 times each!) in this post.

This is the Natchez steamboat. I would say this was

James’ favorite thing to do.

They both had an absolute blast in Winn Dixie! It was like

watching mini me’s going grocery shopping!

James at the optometrist!

The kids cafe was amazing. They were serving coffee, taking our orders 

bringing all kinds of food, clearing the dishes, mopping the floor......

the list goes on and on!

There were several little houses that Audrey just fell

 in love with. She was totally in her element playing house

and was hilarious to watch!!

That night we walked down to Sal’s Snowball Stand and got a snowball. Well, some of us got snowball’s...other’s opted for ice cream cones. Then that someone tasted his mother’s snowball and decided he wanted that instead!!