NOLA, Sunday (Feb 11, 2024)

Even the grocery store fare is different. This shelf is at the small grocery closest to Eric's house:

Top shelf: crab/corn shrimp soup, seafood gumbo.

Second shelf: banana pudding, chocolate pudding, pecan cobbler, peach cobbler, blackberry cobbler. 

Eric, beside our first parade of the day:

Lisa at a crawfish boil along a parade route:

A tree festooned with toilet paper (specially designed and distributed for the purpose of launching into trees thus), with luchadores parading below: 

Face off!

Hiking ... somewhere....

Bristol

Our family in Bristol:

where we stayed with my cousin Matt:

We were very excited to see the Banksy exhibit.

The lines were not as long as we'd feared!

 

  

  

Inside, a few of the treasures:

 

 

Enjoying British beer

San Francisco

Where we began:

I took this photo for Jon; I think I was worried they'd tell me not to take pictures, and I didn't do an excellent job of focusing this shot.

My favorite restaurant in SF

E, after lunch at a lovely Spanish restaurant

I like these doors!

Lunch at my second favorite restaurant in SF - Tartine, @ Guerrero & 19th - this is croque monsieur with shitakes and tomatoes (bechamel, gruyere), and a whole pickled carrot.  We also ordered a hot grilled sandwich of membrillo and idiazabal (not pictured).

nice sign:

Fish!

Vesuvio

Christmas in Oaxaca

4th of July 2004

A family portrait:

On the way to the parade:

Left to right: Charlotte, Jim, Sue, Miles, Amy, Mackenzie, Colby, Kathy.

Fourth-of-July toes:

Cousins:

Being monstrous:

Colts fan!

I'm guessing this is 1971 ...