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The cruise was lots of fun. We were able to walk there from our hotel, which in itself was awesome. The Queen and Crescent was in downtown New Orleans so Bourbon St. was two blocks away and the Mississippi was about 20 minutes away. The dinner on the cruise was pretty good. They had very good spinach (Gotta love Joe's attention to detail. Can't you almost taste the spinach? Silly rabbit!). We finished dinner shortly after the cruise started, so we were able to spent most of the cruise above deck watching the sites (such as a huge number of LA's petro-chemical plants, oh, and of course, New Orleans, even saw some homes along the way). One of Kristy's friend's parents lives near where we cruised by, but we never saw them. We got a photo of us on the steamboat with an awesome background: a huge petrol-chemical plant :P How cute. (Really, it wasn't that cute. Some old guy and a huge smoke stack are in the background of our first photo together.)
After that, we went to the hotel to change clothes for dinner at the Red Fish Grill, what has been voted the best seafood restaurant in New Orleans for the past 4 years. That was a really nice place, great atmosphere, really good food *blackened red fish with crawfish patties* mmmmmm... Kristy had known a head of time to order a dessert that took 20 minutes to make. (The menu said to order dessert with your entrees because it takes 20 minutes to prepare so I ordered dessert when we ordered our entrees. If that makes me a genius, so be it.) Damn that was chocolaty. :D
Next was Harrah's casino. Kristy does not gamble, (It isn't like I am against gambling, I just can't justify wasting money on little colorful chips when there are so many beautiful pairs of shoes at Dillard's just looking for a good home.) but she brought me there just to see it or to gamble a little. I did very well playing craps at UF, so I figured I would try my luck at Harrah's in craps. I joined the cheapest table ($10 minimum bid), and put in $30 worth of chips. It was just my luck that the person rolling the dice threw a 7, everyone loses. For some reason beyond me, I got $3 back, so I lost $27, a little over an hour and a half's hour of work, in about 10 seconds. I am never going to gamble for money again (except if it is like, against my friends, so then its not so bad if I lose, better my money to go to a friend than a huge casino). (I told him that next time he wants to waste money, we could buy a mini craps table like you see in those cheesy mail-order catalogs. We can play pretend-craps and he can just give his money to me to help the homeless shoes.) Kristy was just like, "I'll sit down you go have fun" when I actually was going to gamble after walking around the casino a few times. Well, that didn't last long. There was one craps table there with a $500 minimum bid. Damn, some people have way too much money to spend. After the casino, we just called it a night and went to bed early. Saw some of "Rush Hour" before going to bed. Sleep was good.
The next day we got up, had breakfast at the hotel to save some time. Went to mass at St. Lous Cathedral. It was huge. We had some time to spare before we got there so we walked around Jackson Square. We got our picture taken in the square with the cathedral as a backdrop. It turned out really well. (But it would not have turned out so well if we had done that stupid "prom pose" that Joe wanted to do. No one does that pose except at prom. What are we, in eighth grade?). After mass we went to Pat O's for lunch. I had some really good shrimp Creole while Kristy had some shrimp pasta. After a nice walk back to the hotel we checked out. When we got Kristy's SUV back from the valet, we noticed my radar detector was stolen. No one but the valet had the keys and there was no damage to the car. I filed a complaint and will be talking to a manager about it this evening. Everything else though had been great this weekend. I am really happy with Kristy's birthday present. (Watch out, friends of Joe. The brainwashing is almost complete. You won't even recognize him when I get through [insert evil laugh here…Muwah Hah Hah])
