Saturday December 18th

Well, today is our last full day in New Orleans.  We spent most of the morning doing some prep work in order to leave tomorrow.

I got the motorcycles strapped down in the trailer along with other loose items that needed to be secured.  Judy started to put away the items that accumulated on the tables and counter tops and rearranged the furniture into the traveling mode.  Kinda like that "seat backs and tray tables in the upright position for take-off" thing.

This afternoon, we headed into the French Quarter to go to Central Grocery.  We wanted to buy some of the Italian olive topping the put on their Muffalettas.  We finally found a place to park, and thank goodness for that Smart Car, you can get it into some tiny places.  When we got to the store, the line was out the door and down the sidewalk.  We decided to look up the recipe and make out own.

We then drove to the other side of the Quarter to Our Lady Of Guadalupe Church for Saturday Mass.  We payed another visit to the Shrine of St. Jude and Judy lit a candle.  Although not the hopping musical extravaganza that we experienced last Sunday here, it was still a nice service.  During the Mass, two Baptisms took place.  Always a happy event, those Baptisms are!

After Church, we took a drive to City Park and got a peek at their Celebration in the Oaks Christmas light display.  They had it set up with thousands of lights in the oak trees, a Christmas train, and carousel.

Time for dinner and the question became, "where do you want to go?"  We weren't what we wanted so we thought for a while and Judy suggested a return to the Parkway Tavern and Bakery for one of their Po-boy's.  Great idea!  It was the only restaurant we visited twice in the two weeks we were here.  I think that tells you something.  This time I had the fully dressed Hot Sausage Beef Patty Po-boy and she had the Rubin sandwich.  These are really hearty sandwiches on their own but we also got an order of French Fries and an order of Sweet Potato Fries.  I'm the traditional and she's the sweet potato, and both were excellent.  The atmosphere did not change much from the lunch crowd a few days ago to the evening crowd tonight.  It is a local bar and restaurant that has earned it's reputation.

When we got back the car was loaded and secured into the trailer.  Tomorrow morning we'll disconnect the water, sewer, electric and satellite dish, hook up the trailer to the coach and be on our way to Texas.  It's close to 600 miles so we will probably get there sometime on Monday.  So that means that we'll probably be taking a couple of day off from blogging.

Thanks to those who have been following along.  It's really nice to have you with us.