It’s really good! I will always put in a plug for New Orleans even though I do not live to spend a super long time there myself. You should definitely come to New Orleans. The customs people will call you “honey”, and you can listen to saxophonists in Jackson Square, and have crawfish etouffee for lunch.

(I am now craving crawfish etouffee.)
(Like whoa.)
(And I know that I cannot have any for at least a week and a half.)

In fairness, it was a really BIG building. And the gun and knife show was cordoned off from the book sale section. I wanted to know whether you could bring books to the gun and knife show. Hardly fair to guns and knives if so. 😛

I know I couldn’t live there. I have a low tolerance for fun, and New Orleans wears me out in a hurry. But I like the French Quarter, as long as I go there at a quiet time of year. When I was a kid, my parents took us occasionally, and we’d get beignets and walk along the river. It was nice.

Oh, you should go, if you ever get a chance. Don’t worry about hurricanes! Just go early in the year, before the hurricanes have started, or late in the fall, and you will be fine.

It was fun! Though I wish we’d made it to the hat shop. I suit hats, and they had magnificent ones in there.

Oh the food is good. There’s a restaurant that you can go to there, and I would do it if I ever had enough money for a fancy meal, whose owner is friends with Neil Gaiman, and if you tell the restaurant this specific Neil-Gaiman-related password, they will bring you a surprise.

I nearly didn’t say there was a gun sale in the same building, because I thought the sign was funnier without that, but then I felt like I would just be unnecessarily propagating stereotypes about the American South. 😛

Thanks for telling me! I agree it sounds totally jarring.