Our Final Morning in New Orleans
Started with breakfast at the notable Trolley Stop Café.
“Best café on St. Charles Avenue, folks!
The locals love it!”
The man at the front desk told us
As we boarded the trolley
Outside of our beautiful home
Away from home,
The Avenue Plaza Hotel.

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I don’t feel like writing anything tonight. I would rather get a piece of cheesecake and start devouring it until I get to every last bit of cheesecake yumminess.

In fact, that’s what I’m going to do.

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I ordered my Zune at the end of October, a gift to myself for still having sanity after midterms. I had looked at them for months, but never been able to commit to buying something that was over $200. But when the price dropped for a day, I managed to save over $50 and get free shipping.

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When I was a kid, we had like six channels at most. We had the three major networks (kids, not too long ago, NBC, ABC and CBS were it), PBS and a couple of local stations from New York. As a result of this, we had a sort of different relationship with TV than you kids have now.

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It’s one thing to go out on Christmas day and wonder what’s open. It’s another to have a game plan and hit all the stores that ARE open.

Wait, what’s open on Christmas? The banks, post office, and just about everything else is closed. You can’t go to Target or Wal*Mart. Even the supermarkets are closed.

If you want to get new windshield wipers for your car, or a new battery for your cell phone, or maybe a burger from McDonald’s, you’ll have to wait until the 26th, because Christmas kills everything.

Except the Chinese places.

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This is the perfect Christmas morning. You wake up to find gifts under the tree, the cookies you left gone, and smiles from all. With the house decorated with red and green, the lights a’blinking and the Chipmunks singing about Christmas time, what could go wrong?

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