New Orleans Saturday

We spent Saturday dodging the rain in New Orleans. We, along with our friends the McDermott's (Em's bestest buddy Isabelle), enjoyed the monthly Arts Market in the park at Carolton and Claiborne. The girls had a fun time watching, singing and dancing along to the Freddy Fred kids show again reinforcing the idea that my child may one day be a roady, dancer or singer. She was enthralled by the band! The McDermott's are from New Orleans so as the rain rolled in they left us to visit family. Of course- we headed to Houston's for lunch!

Our whole point of going to New Orleans was to attend the special viewing of Menari, an endangered Sumatran orangutan who was born at the Audubon Zoo on June 10. We have a Membership and really enjoy the special events they put on for members. The rain had ended just as we got there and the sun came out in full force. It was hot, but we spent a few hours getting to really see Emerson's favorite animals up close. Later in the afternoon's at the zoo they do animal feeding and I guess the rains had scared everyone away because it was not too crowded. We saw Menari who Emerson says has crazy hair like her. Very cute and so human baby like! The giraffe's, sea lions and orangutans were being fed while we were there and we enjoyed seeing that as well. We also went to see, upon Emerson's request, the alligators, cougar's, black bears and the elephants.

From the zoo we went to a few of our favorite stores on Magazine and then headed to Lakeside Mall. An exhausted little girl fell asleep in the car on the way home and we actually put her straight into bed from the car when we got home. She had a great day, therefore we did also!!