Day 13 "Doin Nawlins" -Well, sort of...

     Yesterday we did the repairs, rested and did the obligatory grocery shopping, and today we played...  We took the 10:00 am shuttle bus from the marina down to near the heart of the French Quarter. We started with the usual tourist type stops:

We did not sample the beignets and justified that decision by the fact that we had both been there before. Also, in reality the line to get inside was over 2 blocks long and beignets really are not THAT great.

As you can see the Memorial Weekend weather and the classic views were just superb.

Two days earlier  we had passed under those bridges and down the Mississippi River past where the Admiral is standing. After this "intense" half hour of sight seeing, we walked 5 blocks to the Canal Cinemas Dinner Theatre to watch "Hangover 3".  The seats were wide, deep and had 6 inch wide armrests that also had folding tables. We shared a Margarita Pizza and large popcorn.  There was a 20 minute delay due to projection problems, and then they moved us to another theater to watch the movie.  In addition, they were so embarassed that they gave us an additional "free movie pass".  After the movie, we did some more rubber necking.

This was obviously back along the river. After 45 more minutes of the tourist thing, we went back to the theater to see the new "Star Wars". Well, after all, we just couldn't let those free tickets go to waste...
     We finished off the time after the movie with more sight seeing:

and we even saw three wedding marches complete with umbrellas for the bride and groom as well as marching jazz bands.

We finished off the day with a delightful cajun dinner, and by then it was 8:00 pm and time to catch the shuttle back "home".
     Not exactly a typical day of touring the French Quarter, but it had been over two weeks since we had seen a first run movie, and neither of us realized how much "withdrawal" we had been going through! Back home in League City we had been going to 2 or 3 movies a week, and it had become a habit, I guess. Well, it was a fun if not terribly relaxing day. Tomorrow the adventure continues...