In a highly top secret operation Mary planned a trip to New Orleans for the weekend after my big Septuagenarian birthday. I will say that the top secret of this was on par of an operation planned by the Trump organization. The trip started from Chicago after we had spent the early part of the week in Michigan for meetings and dropping one of the China engineers at O’Hare for his trip back to China. While waiting for one of the meetings we did visit the lighthouse in St Joseph. It was windy and cold.
We got to New Orleans late afternoon and went out walking around. After a while we had some food and a delicious desert.
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We dropped into some club to watch some guy play 4 or 5 different instruments and sing.
After a quick stroll up Bourbon St. we called it a night.
The next day was a lot of walking around the French Quarter. Plenty of street musicians, that Jackson guy in Jackson park and the big river.
One of the reasons for New Orleans was to see a street jazz band that was playing a couple scheduled events on Friday and Saturday. While walking around we ran across them playing on the street on Friday afternoon. Tuba Skinny have been playing together for about 10 years.
We watched them for about a set and spent more time walking around. We got to a restaurant and I had a piece of meat and Mary had Shamu the Red Snapper.
After eating it was time for Tuba Skinny playing at an art gallery.
This is a video of them made by some other guy a couple weeks ago.
The next day was more of the same. With an early flight we were in bed early and up at 4 to head home. On the drive back from Chicago to Nashville we stopped in West Lafayette to check out the big chateau that Michael bought and got home late Sunday.