life in the NO

Our new house is awesome. Our new neighborhood is awesome. It's in the historic district, and it's nice on the eyes. my bed is the brown one & i have a lovely view of the outside

This weekend was wonderful. I think it was technically the beginning to Mardi Gras. There was a parade at night, and the streets were just packed. I don't have many words to describe it... except one big party. & this was just a small taste of what Mardi Gras will actually be like. It actually will be pretty safe, so don't worry too much about me. How do i figure? well because just from observing last night, people will be too heavily intoxicated to cause any real threat to a person. hah, just sayin.

The girls on my team & i stayed in a house hotel in the French Quarter. It was such a neat place. It used to be someone's house, but it's huge. Every room is completely different from the other, so you never know what you will get. It had a beautiful courtyard and it was so nice to be able to just walk back and sleep when you got tired. I hung out with some pretty cool people last night. We went to iHop and we all destroyed 6 1/2 pancakes. we were all trying to win... we all tied and sunk in to a bit of a food coma.

Today we came back home on the ferry and our team went to a crawfish boil that we were invited to, to celebrate the bed bug ordeal being officially over! I had never eaten crawfish before... it was, alright. i think it was the fact that they still looked like they should be alive but weren't... i just opted for the snacks mostly, but i had to try... when in Rome, right?

Anyway, totally loving it here.
P.S. mom, you should visit me : ]

Abigail D.... in process.