Home from New Orleans

[rusty_halo]

Home from Wincon. Good to hug my cats. I will miss the nights of uninterrupted sleep, though. (Lucifer has me up at 6am for kitty breakfast.)

Sadly 10zlaine couldn’t come, but it was a lot of fun to hang out with soundingsea. We stayed in a lovely B&B, toured several historical buildings and took a ton of walking tours (I think 4? the cocktail tour was the best ;) and even managed to find decent vegan food (Wandering Buddha vegan Korean!). Oh, and we took a trip to the bayou and held a baby alligator. :)

The con was okay, but I was sad that so few people I knew were able to make it. It’s hard being a newbie at a con where everyone seems to know each other, especially when you’re an extreme introvert.

But hey, good to escape work for a few days, and wonderful to hang with soundingsea.

Oh and I loved the SPN episode, of course. :)

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Comments

[soundingsea]

*pouncehug* I bet your kitties were happy to see you! (Did you tell them about Ally? Somehow I doubt they would have been thrilled if you could have smuggled her home...)

And yeah, the not knowing people is tough. Bah! I think such cons need icebreaker activities!

[pukajen]

It sounds like you guys had a great time. I've never been to New Orleans, but it's one of the few American cities that I want to visit; is it worth it?

Also, I was telling Sea the other day that the three of us should do a long weekend thing somewhere. Sight-see, catch up, drink ;)

[rusty_halo]

Yes, let's hang out! I'd love to do a long weekend somewhere, either a con or just friendly hanging out. :)

New Orleans is interesting. It has a really unique history and culture--it's the USA, but the culture still has strong imprints of the French/Spanish/etc that originated it, and the French Quarter is amazing architecturally, like an old European city.

OTOH it is definitely a prime locale for sleaze (ugh, Bourbon street) and the lack of decent food was frustrating (deep fried everything). It's also a bit discomfiting that there are apparently very few laws, and what laws there are aren't enforced (seriously, we discovered you can wander drunkenly into the middle of the street carrying two alcoholic drinks and hold up traffic getting your picture taken, and the cops standing next to you will do nothing). Like it's kind of freeing, but also scary (high crime rate, felt very unsafe walking to our B&B via mostly-isolated streets at night).

Anyway, definitely a place to experience! No other city like it. I'm tempted to re-read my Anne Rice after having been there twice this year. ;)

And, yes, long weekend! Let me know what ideas you guys have. :)

[rusty_halo]

LOL, yeah, I don't think Ally and my cats would have appreciated each other. It was funny seeing how similar their eyes are, though!

Yeah, icebreaker activities are good at cons. It's too bad you can't institute a mobile device ban, too. :P So many situations where conversations would have struck up, except that everyone had their nose in a phone/laptop...

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