Pros and Cons

So yesterday was another adventure in New Orleans so I am going to break it down into pros and cons.

Pros:

• Warm Beignets from Cafe Du Monde, the best thing I have eaten in a very long time. You find this place at River Walk which looks out onto the Mighty Mississippi and you can watch huge shrimp boats coming in from the ocean while you are engorging on these delightful pastries. 3 for $2.14-worth every penny!
• The music, not many cities you can walk down the street and here a sonnet on a trombone, walk in to multiple bars with people playing from real pianos, or walk home from a night of fun and see 12 men on the corner of Bourbon street all on different horns-unbelievable! One in a wheelchair with no legs but looks like he won the lottery playing music with his buddies.
• The pride the locals have about living here. You can feel it everywhere. The city may not be perfect but in their eyes it is.

Cons:

• This city really smells nothing like I have ever experienced. I could never come here pregnant because I would need to walk around with a gas mask. I keep thinking that it is going to grow on me-it hasn't.
• To go along with the smell is that you people can still smoke EVERYWHERE here. Bars, bathrooms, in your face.
• The panhandlers are out of control-you can tell some are doing it of need which breaks my heart because I am not Oprah but you can also tell some have made it into a profitable business for themselves.

That's all for today!