Bourbon Street In New Orleans

Hey everyone,

Today was another long drive to New Orleans, even though it was only two hours.  In Austin, Texas Clay woke me up in the morning around 8am to go for a run.  We stayed at one of Dr. D.’s friend’s house, Mrs. Marian, so we decided to take the opportunity to run in a neighborhood.  Of course the route that we took was all uphill for about 15 minutes.  The view was beautiful because we could see houses on the other side of the hills and these were houses that I dream about having one day.  We couldn’t really enjoy the view too much since we were focused on running up the hill, but that quick moment running down hill opened up more opportunity to enjoy the landscape and houses.  These roads didn’t have sidewalks so we had to listen carefully for cars coming from behind us or in front of us so that we could move out of the way.  When we arrived back at Mrs. Marian’s house we did some push-ups and didn’t hesitate to jump into the pool to cool off.  Rather than jumping, I did more of a falling motion into the pool.

                While driving down the freeway on the way to New Orleans we ran into traffic about an hour away from our hotel.  I was getting impatient and the weather wasn’t helping since it is 60% humidity here.  “Brown eyed girl” came on the radio and my attention was instantly changed from being frustrated from the traffic to thinking about my mom.  Whenever I went to visit my mom as a kid, she would always play this song.  After arriving to New Orleans we ate at a little restaurant and I ate some barbeque shrimp which was good.  When we were finished eating we explored the night life of New Orleans on Bourbon Street which was an experience.  Bourbon Street has at least one thing that you will enjoy if you ever decide to come here as well as a variety of music suitable for all audiences.  We finally found a Karaoke place and of course I had to sing something to get the full experience.  Clay and I chose “Hot In Here” by Nelly which was fun.  There was a little bachelorette party so a group of eight women got on stage and tried to sing “Ridin’ Solo” by Jason Derulo which definitely killed my ears because they were horrible.  It was clear that these women had one too many drinks early on in the night. 

Anyway, there is a lot to experience in New Orleans and I am excited for another night on Bourbon Street.  Here is the "Ridin' Solo" song by Jason Derulo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D24dNnwunRg

-Sherman Pruitt II