Sister Sister!!!

My loverly sister came down to visit us for the three day weekend!! It is always great to have family and friends come visit, I just wish it could be more often and longer visits.

We had a blast!! When she got in we hung out at the house catching up and having her meet a friend of Zach's. Zach made some awesome queso, that was pretty epic, and the first Angello Clan queso to turn out well lol.

Monday we went to a baby expo across the river. It was insane!! I had never seen so many strollers in my life! They had a curtained off nursing station and changing station...there were babies and kids EVERYWHERE!! A lot of the booths didn't pertain to us since there were things specifically for pregnant women, insurances, kids with teeth, and photographers. But there were a toooon of handmade baby clothes, that were to die for! Seriously some of the cutest things I've ever seen, and we now know we can get Haiden and Declyn matching holiday outfits, custom made! There were eco-friendly toy companies, and MLM business you could get into or host parties through. There was also a booth for kindermusik, which Morgan had done with the boys she nannied, so I was familiar with it, and didn't know they had here. There is also going to be an indoor playground opening soon, that is like the old school DZ Kid Zones, but all soft play and totally more awesome! There were even cupcake booths, as well as diaper cake booths. After about 2 hours, we made it out and had a bag of business cards and websites to check out. Over all it was super fun and interesting to see all the stuffs they had. As we were leaving, Morgan slammed Zach's hand in the door, and so that was the only mishap that day.

Sunday we went down town since Morgan wanted to get a caricature done of Declyn. We took the ferry and walked around Jackson Square. She was able to get his caricature and find some prints she wanted. We didn't get to go to Cafe du Monde because it was a Saints game day and the line was half way around the block! But we got to eat down town at New Orleans Seafood and Burgers, where she got her fried fish craving almost taken care of. The restaurant had a thin fried fish po-boy, and she was thinking thin would be like half and inch...their version of thin was maybe 2 cm! It was pretty much a fail, but she liked it. Then we headed home because Declyn had spit up all over Morgan, she had forgotten his formula, cut her finger, and when she made a bottle using our formula she shook it...with out the lid/nipple and was covered in formula. But at least we got all of the things done she had wanted to do before everything went down hill. We then rode the ferry back to our side of the river, and it was freakishly cold. The entire day was windy and colder than we had thought, but with us walking around it was perfect since we didn't end up getting all hot and sticky. 

Monday we went to check out City Park, it's basically New Orleans version of a kiddy Central Park. This park was the coolest thing, I never knew existed here! Unfortunately, the museum and botanical gardens and amusement park were closed on Mondays. But we were able to walk around in the sculpture garden, which was gorgeous. We then walked around this little lake where you could feed an array of ducks and geese, and we walked passed the Storyland. Our kids would have gotten in free, but we had to pay $3, and decided to just walk around the outside of it and check it out. It was the coolest thing EVER!! I have never seen anything like this, in a park!! It had all these huge story book characters made into playground sets, and larger than life props to climb all over. Zach was laughing and making jokes about how excited I was about everything! I am still such a kid at heart, and when I see awesome things for kids, I get so excited...because it's a place for kids to be kids and not playing video games in their houses all day. And the park has an awesome antique carousel that is a favorite amongts even the oldest of people, and a they light up the park like crazy for the holidays! Plus I saw a Tilt-A-Whirl in the amusement park, so we are most definitely going back...just not on a Monday next time. After we walked around some more, we were all hungry so we drove out of the park, the long way and checked out everything else they had there: tennis courts, dog park, paddle boat rentals, a football stadium, horse back riding arena, and soccer fields. This place seriously blew our minds! We proceeded to our side of the river to take Morgan to our favorite Mexican restaurant, and had some margaritas! 

Then Tuesday rolled around and Morgan headed back to Texas :( But I'd have to say, this was one of the most entertaining visits. We actually know our way around the town enough to take people places, other than the base, and it's awesome!!