William and I had a couple great New Orleans trips before the boys arrived and we’ve been wanting to go back but didn’t make it happen until this trip — March 2021.

We arrived in New Orleans to stay with Aunt Mimi and Uncle Dave and pretty much just let ourselves enjoy the amazing NOLA experience they shared as hosts. All of the great home cooked favorites – crawfish etoufee (Shepherd ate so much of this instead of the Mac n Cheese offered – yay!), jumbalaya, crab pasta, and so much other yumminess. We walked and drove around much of the city, visited the Zoo, the aquarium, cafe du monde and came up with a very long list of things we are going to do on the next trip! The best hosts possible — we can’t wait for the next time!

Zoo and time with the cousins at Mimi + Daves

Aquarium, Cafe du Monde and amazing crawfish, Shrimp + Oyster poboys (3 feet long!) from a nearby grocery (amaze), crab pasta salad

and then our now favorite family roadtrip stop on the way back to Jax