today is today: April 2010

So the three days were super packed.

Saturday:

Woke up at 430am to get to the airport by 6am. mine eyes were like -_- while i was getting ready

Had a layover in Houston.

heres us at the Houston airport rushing ALLLLL the way across to get to our connecting cause the airport is freakin' huge.

We arrived in New Orleans in the late afternoon and get to the hotel, Quality Inn & Suites on O' Keefe. This place was nice. Separated bedrooms. Continental Breakfast. And in walking distance of the French Quarter and the Wedding.

This is when my mom tells me that we are going to the rehearsal dinner. UM. I only brought one set of nice clothes for the wedding.

So I end up wearing a cardigan over my t-shirt and jeans. The little kid their (the grooms kid brother) was dressed nicer than I was. Sad. But the food was suuuuper fancy. and it turns out everyone dressed wayyy formal.

(this was the restaurant it was called August and was owned by chef John Besh)

This was the food. Okay so we had stuff like foi gras, roasted duck, a fancy salad with candied pecans(yum!). oh and ravioli that was stuffed with expensive meat.

Afterwards we went to go check out Bourbon St. which is basically like mardi gras in New Orleans without the floats. So it was pretty hectic. But it was fun to see how the city was at night.

Yes, we got mardi gras beads. No, we did not flash anyone. Ew. I think I would be traumatized if my mom flashed anyone. My mom didn't understand that they wanted her to flash them. She got super excited that they were throwing necklaces and that everyone in the street wanted them. And you can see my not so formal outfit that I wore for the rehearsal dinner.

Sunday:

We went to bed pretty late, so it was super tough waking up the next morning. But mother insisted since we got continental breakfast at the hotel, which was pretty sweet. They had a lot of food. Everything from sausage to grits to cereal to waffles. YUM!

This is us at breakfast. Oh I forgot to mention they had coffee, tea and OJ and apple juice. It was quite the spread.

But it gave us energy cause we were going to go explore the French Quarter that day. Mostly just hit places like Jackson square and all the surrounding shops and of course, cafe du monde for the beneigts.

This is Jackson Square. It's famous for the statue of President Andrew Jackson and the Cathedral behind it is pretty famous as well. This was right next to Cafe duMonde.

It was pretty crowded that day because there was a triathlon going on and Cafe duMonde was right near the finish line.

It was suuuuper crowded here. It was really hard to find a table but we eventually did and ordered our beneigts.

Mission Accomplished. YUMMMMM!! These were so good!! Little fried pieces of dough literally drowning in powdered sugar.

After Cafe du Monde, we shopped around the gift shops n stuff. The feel of the city is really chill. We walked around enjoying street performers, and street art. Then we had to rush back to get changed for the wedding. After almost being late we finally arrived.

This was where the main wedding ceremony was held. It used to be a bank and was located in the French Quarter. It was a gorgeous place though.

Here are the bride and groom lighting the unity candle. It was a beautiful, albeit short, ceremony.

Then they had an open bar and hor d'oeuvre's before the wedding banquet. Dude, the hor d'oeuvre's were so good! They had one that was a slice of marinated steak, one that was this fried crab cake and crawfish beignets. Then the dinner was also super fancy. Funniest speeches ever! by both the best man and my Uncle (father of the bride).

Excerpt from best man's speech:

"I want you two to put your hands together on the table. No, Jacob put your hand on top of Renee's. And stare into each other's eyes. Jacob, enjoy this moment because it's the last time you're going to have the upper hand in this relationship."

Excerpt from my uncle's speech:

(at the very end)

"...now be fruitful! and bear lots of childrennn!!!!"

oh maaaan.

Here's the happy couple at their sweetheart table.

Here's my cousin,Renee, and her husband,Jacob, at the cake cutting!

The food was delish. The salad was alright. The appetizer was this potato gnochi that was amazing! I've never had gnochi that tasted that good before. The main course was this medium rare steak that was sooo tender and juicy. And the wedding cake was lemon? I think.

After that we went back and slept cause we were so tired.

Monday:

We had small continental breakfast since we were saving our stomachs for lunch. For lunch we wanted to have some real Louisiana eatin'!! So we asked the hotel concierge and he recommended this seafood restaurant. Man alive, it was so bueno!!