On Wednesday, I was able to meet with Vera and Ray. They picked me up at 4:30 to go to eat. We went looking down St. Charles for a restaurant a lady had recommended. Couldn’t find the special one, but we stopped at another. It was fairly good. Lots of food. I ordered a Vegetable plate and it was really great. What I like the most was that it did not make me feel bad the next day. Vera and I barely stopped talking through out the meal. Ray was a little left out at times. He did stop us to say things, but the majority of the time he was quiet. After eating they took me down to the levee. This is one area of New Orleans that had completely been redone. It is amazing how beautiful it is now that they have made a path and added things. It was a great place to get pictures of the river.
It has been over seventeen years since I had been to New Orleans. The only thing that is there that was besides Bourbon Street and the Square is the top of the Mart. The french market is much better and bigger. The Jax Brewery is completely redone and turned into a shopping mall inside. They built the aquarium and the RiverWalk adjacent to the levee, so it is like a completely different place. We did not have time for the Aquarium and I do not like shopping, so I did not go to the RiverWalk. Ray and Vera took me back around seven and I was really glad. I was way too tired to go for a long night. When Elaine returned, I was glad that I had not gone with them. Too much shopping and not enough looking. 😀