Off to New Orleans

Mike had a conference in New Orleans and wanted me to tag along with him.  I wasn't overly thrilled about New Orleans, I didn't really think that city had much to offer to me.  Later, he told me Alison and Travis were going to go too, then it sounded a little better, I could at least hang out with Alison during the day while Mike was at meetings.
It was a quick, but good trip.  We got there late on the first night.  Alison and Travis headed to bed, Mike and I headed to a dive bar for food and a drink.  We were hungry!
The next day the guys left in the morning for their meetings and then called us later in the morning and said they booked us a spa day.  It was lovely.  Alison and I got up quick, hit the hotel breakfast and walked to the spa.
When we were finished with the spa the guys ended up being in the waiting room waiting for us.  We all walked to lunch and had lunch together.  The guys then headed back to meetings and Alison and I walked to a mall.  The only thing we found that we needed to buy was a bottle of wine.  HA!  Actually, I take that back.  I ended up finding the kids some clothes at GAP.
We then headed back to our rooms to get ready.  The Hillen's have friends that live there and they were going to show us the city the night.  We met and went to dinner and then headed to Bourbon Street.  WOW!!!  I would NEVER need to see that during a "busy" night.  It was crazy and gross enough, on a random, weeknight in October.  They did take us to a really cook dueling piano bar and that was super fun.  We finished the night eating beignets at the famous Cafe Du Monde.
The next morning we woke up took our time and was ready to hit the airport at 11:00.
This is where the true adventure began.......
We got through security, got to our gate, boarded the plane, and was ready to take off.  Then they came on and said we had to de-board the plane that there was a problem.  We ended up having an eight hour time delay.  Thank GOD THE KIDS WERE NOT WITH US.  We had a deck of cards in our back.  We busted those out, found a restaurant that served wine and we were set.  And Southwest gave us free vouchers for future flight and free in-flight drinks....sounds good to me!

 This is what an eight hour delay looks like......