Covered 12 Miles on Foot Yesterday Moving to Sites Around New Orleans and Finished with a Pelicans NBA Game Against the Washington Wizards

Tunga worked in the morning so after my coffee, I went for a morning romp around town, before we headed to the New Orleans Modern Museum of Art and Sculpture Gardens. As a tribute to Beth Boquet who helped make recommendations, we also walked to the James Baldwin book store. Tunga wanted to see Louie Armstrong Park, so we did that, too, before heading out for cajun and the game at the Smoothie King Arena. It's been a minute since I put that many miles on a pair of sneakers, but I'm glad I've been moving four or five miles a day on foot since I stopped running.

This morning, we have to check out of one hotel into another (not sure why Chitunga arranged it that way), but was also got tickets for a two-hour jazz boat tour for lunch (which I'm looking forward to, although it won't be as warm as the last few days).

Let's talk about jambalaya...damn it's good. Dave made it a few times while they still lived in Stratford and now I need to make it. It's one of those unforgettable favors you just can't replicate. I need to try for myself.

I abstained from the abundance of bourbon yesterday only because I mixed beer and bourbon the day before. That, and travel, just made me tired, and with all the walking, I decided it best to keep my stomach calm (okay...besides the cajun spices all day). By the way, I had cajun shrimp 'n grits the night before. Delicious. 

The Penguins and the Wizards have the worst records in the NBA, but the game was actually good. It was 90s night, so they had all types of music from that decade, including a surprise performance of Freak Nasty's Da Dip. The tickets were only $24 a piece and we had great seats once again. Tunga is chalking it up to pure luck...that the bowl game was delayed 24 hours and cheap tickets resulted, as well as the Pelicans being so bad they just want people to go to the game (but I must say, they weren't that bad...it just shows the quality of what else is in the NBA). 

Okay, time to find coffee and get out of this room before check-out time and to move ourselves down the street. Oh, and the hotel shower only has cold water. It was an interesting shower yesterday. I may way for the new hotel to shower again.