Minutes to Memories

Today is my thirteenth wedding anniversary. Coincidentally, my wife is celebrating her thirteenth wedding anniversary today, too, so we decided to celebrate together.

Due to a fortuitous series of events, we both agree that this has turned out to be the very best anniversary of them all.

Fortuitous event number one: Our anniversary fell on Memorial Day, and my wife happened to be off work today.

Fortuitous events numbers two and three: Our oldest daughter is in Arkansas for the summer, and our youngest daughter left for Bible Camp yesterday.

So...

We drove to New Orleans yesterday afternoon and checked into the Maison Dupuy hotel in the northern section of the French Quarter. We wandered around the Quarter and ended up eating at "our place" (I guess): Bubba Gump's Shrimp Company. That this is "our place" is ironic since Jody is the only person on Planet Earth that didn't like Forrest Gump. Nevertheless, we shared the Run Across America Sampler, I had Captain Jim's Fishwich, and then we shared an unbelievable chocolate chip cookie & ice cream dessert.

Today, we discovered a new "favorite" place (but only when you secure a small bank loan and have a huge appetite) when we tried the Jazz Brunch at the Court of Two Sisters Restaurant on Royal Street.

Un. Bee. Leave. A. Bull.

Go to the link and check out the menu, though words cannot describe. Of all the amazing food I sampled, I would probably give a tie between the glazed sweet potatoes and the ice cream with praline sauce for "best dish."

We spent the rest of the day walking and talking and basking in a singular day where we didn't have any responsibilities to anyone else.

Thirteen may be unlucky for some people, but for us it has seemed the luckiest day ever.