NOLA details

It's been nearly a week since we returned from our anniversary trip to New Orleans. The city has been much written about, much documented, so I'll just share a few of our highlights.

Music everywhere, on the streets, in the restaurants, at the many many clubs.

Pied Nu, Uptown on Magazine. If I had a store I'd want it to be exactly like this.

Front porches. This was at the wonderful shop Perch Home, on Magazine.

Cozily decorated restaurants.

A tour of the wonderfully restored Beauregard-Keyes House- just look at that wallpaper!

Window shopping for antiques. I loved all the oyster plates.

The perfumed air, sweetened by tea olive trees.

Bougainvillea all over the place.

French-influenced breakfasts. Mmmm.

Crumbling decadence.

Citrus trees.

Beautiful French Quarter balconies, overflowing with ferns and flowers.

The amazing homes of the Garden District, including the Cornstalk House!

Beautiful patio gardens.

A Ramos Gin Fizz at the Roosevelt's Sazarec Bar.

I'm pretty much the worst at taking vacation photos and I think it's a sign that I'm too busy having a good time! One of our favorite memories, not photographed, was our Anniversary Sunday brunch at Commander's Palace. We started with cocktails (Apricot Fizz for me, Bloody Mary for Lar) and ended up bread pudding souffle with whiskey cream sauce. I mean...
In between there was sheer decadence, the most amazing food, live music- at one point our entire dining room got up and started dancing. It was so much fun!

It's easy to see how easily New Orleans is the favorite city of many. It's so different from any other place, so full of beauty and life, so much history and mystery. We had a wonderful week we had, celebrating such a place as well as our first year of marriage.