John Boutte = Amazingness

The Saturday we were down in New Orleans, we decided to go to John Boutte.  He was playing at d.b.a. on Frenchmen Street.  He has been sick for awhile, and this was his first show back.  d.b.a. is a small little bar; no tickets required, and it's pretty much general admission.  Just be first in line so you can get up close to the stage.  

We got there, got our drinks and proceeded to watch the best show I've ever seen in my life.  You guys, I had my musical epiphany in that place that night.  He sang "Hallelujah," and when the crowd chimed in and sang, it was the most beautiful thing I have ever heard.  It still gives me chills.  

He was such a little man!  I'm in flats y'all, and I was still that much taller than him.  

It honestly was one of the best moments of my life; I of course can't wait to go back and see him again.  Just fantastic.

Have a great weekend y'all!

Wednesday Ramblings

 

•  Lately, I've had some really sweet gestures from some of the drivers that run my freight; flowers from the first group of awesomes, and  a giftcard for Starbucks from another sweet driver.  I wish people were nice like this all the time.
•  The Braves are 8-1.  I'm feeling a World Series this year..so sad they couldn't do it with Chipper last year, but those Upton brothers?  Oh, and Dan Uggla.  Yes, please.
• I took a 2 1/2 managerial assessment this week.  What did it tell the people who needed to know?  That I'm smarter than the President and Vice President of the company (no, seriously, they said that), that apparently I am not well-read; I trust people too easily, etc.  Sooo, moral of the story?  Maybe the SAT on crack is not the greatest way to decide things.
• We've got two trips planned in the next couple of months; Austin in May, and Miami and the Keys for our anniversary.
• A-Day game in two weeks!  Last rolling of Toomer's Corner with the original trees.  Going to be a very sad day.

NOLA First Night Food - Jacque-Imos Part Deux

So after our thirty minute delay in Shuttlesworth Birmingham International Airport (umm, I could have screwed up the order of those words, but you know.  I do live here, so I guess I get a pass?)  Just as an FYI, they have remodeled this entire airport, and with the exception of the tragedy with the sign falling on that family, the airport looks great.  I really think that they did a good job... they even implanted one of these...

Yes, a Good People in the airport!  We had 30 delay minutes to kill, so we enjoyed a few Snakehandlers before getting on the plane.

As soon as we got off the plane we went to meet Linds and JM at Jacque-Imos.  Yep, we'd already been there, but we had to share the deliciousness that was the alligator cheesecake with them.  They also got the fried grits, which they both said was delicious.  So next time, we'll check that out.

Linds and JM.  Sweet ass couple.  JM's first NOLA trip!

Me and Linds.

Linds' first fried oyster (oh you knew I was going to post this!)  B's sweet face after eating the cornbread (oh you knew I was going to post this!)

B had the quail and I had the drum fish, in an amazing almondine sauce thing.  Ugh, it was fantastic.  But honestly, share a dish if you go here.  You will never ever be able to eat it all (especially if you get that amazing alligator cheesecake), and then you'll be stuck with almost two full meals in a refrigerator in your hotel that you are probably not going to eat.

And then when your husband does try to eat the leftover fish, he gets just a tiny bit sick.  Of course this was just the first stop of the night...more on the rest of the night later....