So Shay: fun

This past weekend was so much fun.

We set off on a 9 hour road trip to New Orleans on Friday for my friend Jenni's 25th birthday.

Thank you Sabrina for leaving your energy drink in my fridge. ;)

We drove to The Woodlands first and met up with Jenni and Brady. We hopped in Brady's truck and began our drive to Lake Charles, LA. We got to the L'AuBerge hotel and casino at about midnight and spent the early morning hours playing craps and chillaxin' in the hotel room.

I thought I'd be a high roller and sadly lost 10 whole buckaroos on a slot machine. There were so many mean and serious people in that casino. Lighten up people! I may or may not have cheered really loud (on accident) when the guy at the craps table rolled a 7 and 10 men lost A LOT of money. #oops #mybad

We slept in and left for NOLA around 11. Traffic, pictures, and music pretty much summed up the stretch across LA.

Cupcakes made by yours truly.

We finally made it to NOLA and checked into our hotel room. We threw our bags in our room and walked to Canal Street and Bourbon Street.

After a few hurricanes, hand granades, and parades, we headed back to our hotel to get ready for the night.

We went to dinner (there were 12 of us) and then hit up Bourbon street for Round 2. The Florida vs. LSU game was this past weekend so Bourbon street was full of college students getting wasted, making out, fighting, and acting like tools. Bourbon street is THE.BEST.PLACE.TO.PEOPLE.WATCH. I was in heaven. I don't think I've ever seen so much randomness in my life. Ohmylanta.

For example:

One couple was pretty much going to TOWN in the middle of the street. Full on making out, boob grabbin, butt grabbin...It was hard to look away.

One couple was SUPER drunk. You know what I'm talking about...that drunk couple who can barely mutter words so they spent about 30 minutes pushing each other, screaming at each other but their faces were super close to one another making drunk gibberish.

Jenni and I started mocking them and pretended to say what they were saying.

"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU!"
"BABE, IT WASN'T THAT BIG OF A DEAL! SHE'S MY FRIEND!"
"BULL! YOU WERE ALL OVER HER RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME!!!"
"YOU'RE OVERREACTING!"
"NO, YOU'RE OVERREACTING!"
"WHATEVER, I'M DONE WITH THIS."
"I'M DONE! YOU'RE SUCH A LIAR. I'M OVER IT!"
"Drunk gibberishhhhhhhhhsfkjsaljfaslkfjsalkf"
"NO! YOU DRUNKgibberishfskfjsfksajflsakf"

Then they walk away and then drunk walk back to each other and keep repeating the same thing.

Young College Love. SO entertaining. I wanted to walk up to them and say, "Make Love, Not War. It's not worth it honey."

GOOD thing Andrew held me back. Because a couple minutes later, a girl that the guy knew walked up to him in the middle of the fight and hugged him right in front of his raging girlfriend. The raging girlfriend pulled her off and started swinging at her.

Soooo stinkin' hilarious. I really dodged THAT bullet.

Hahahaha.

We saw boobs. We saw parades. We saw thongs. We saw brides. We saw crazies. We saw a girl drop her hot dog on BOURBON street, pick it up and EAT it. #sickmeout... We literally saw everything under the sun. Let me tell you...

After a fun night of dancing, singing, balcony hopping, throwing beads, & laughing we threw the towel in and went back to the hotel and went to bed.

The next morning we had breakfast at Mother's Restaurant and grabbed some Beingets from Cafe Du Monde. I worked my magic and only had to wait 10 minutes for those powdered sugar heaven in my mouth beingets. You read that right. The line was SO long too. Whoop whoop! It pays to be nice people...pays to be nice.

We went to a few shops and then headed back home.

It was a very long drive, but I was surrounded with great friends. It was such a great weekend! I already can't wait to go back.

Blogger meet up in Nawlins anyone? :)

Alright, I'm back. I'm feeling slightly overwhelmed with my new position at work and photography lately so my poor little blog has taken the back seat. I hope to be back in full swing soon.

Let's finish up the blate post shall we?

I guess I'll start this post out with something awesome.

Please ignore my annoying voice and laugh. I was crying I was laughing so hard. Girlfran got it goin' on...and you'll def. hear me say, "I can't breathe! I can't breathe!" I haven't laughed that hard in a very long time. Thanks, E! :)

Alright, so let me rewind back to Saturday morning. I started us out with a good ol' Texas breakfast.

After breakfast, we got dressed and headed to The Domain to do some shopping. We shopped til' we dropped, chatted, had lunch, and then headed back home to get dressed for the evening.

After getting all showered and dolled up, we headed to The Oasis for dinner.

We got there just in time for sunset and settled in with a few drinks while we waited for a table.

Our buzzer finally went off, so we danced our way to the dining area and were seated at a table in the middle of the restaurant.

And we set. And we set. And we set some more.

5 min. 10 min. STILL no service. I wasn't really paying much attention at the time because we were all talking and having a good time, but once the 20 minute mark went by and NOBODY had came to our table yet...I started to REALLY look around.

This story is as close to what I can rememeber from the night. It may not be word for word, but it's pretty stinkin' close.

No chips. No salsa. No water. No waiter.

Hmmmm.

A few moments later, a "Dude" comes up right behind me and says, "Whaaaat's uppp, how you fine ladies doin' night?"

I remember thinking, "IS this our waiter? This can't be for real..."

We all looked at each other thinking it was funny for a millisecond until we got a better look at him.

Yep. Dude is our waiter. Lucky us.

DUDE was Stoned with a capital "S" out of his mind. Not only was he STONED, he was totally on something else...and it was blatantly OBVIOUS.

I glanced behind me and noticed that his other tables were not happy whatsoever with him and were having other staff members help them.

Dude says, "Aight y'all, I'll brb with some chips and salsa."

Me: "Can we get a queso too? We have to be out of here by 9 because we have a show downtown."

Drew Drew Hot Pants: "Hey man, can we also please get another drink each??"

Dude: "Yeah man, sure man, I'll be right back." Then he proceeds to repeat the order THREE times.

He sounded like Matthew Mcconaughey all Dazed and Confused style.

5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes...

I see another waiter and ask him to bring us our chips and salsa, etc. etc.

Keep in mind, we got there at 7:30 and had to be gone by 9:20 in order to make our show downtown at 10.

It's about 8:40 and we still had not ordered our food yet.

Dude comes back and we had to remind him about our queso and drink orders. He brings them in about 5 minutes. Good job Dude.

Dude disappears, again. So, we all decide the queso, salsa and chips would hold us over for the night and decided we needed to leave really soon.

Dude comes back, and we tell him that we need our check and he doesn't understand.

Dude: "You haven't even ordered your food. What can I get you?"

Drew Drew Hot Pants: "No man, we just need the check."

Sabrina says a couple of funny one liners and I just let the guy have it.

Me: "Seriously? You've taken way too long Dude. We need our check and we need it now. You haven't helped us all night and we have had to have other waiters help us because you haven't remembered anything we've told you or ordered. We need the check now!"

Dude proceeded to not hear me and says, "Ah, man yeah man just please don't tell on me...so what are you ladies doing tonight? Why the rush?"

He hits on Sabrina and then Sabrina tells him that we need to go because we are going to Esther's Follies downtown."

Dude: "Are y'all going to the music festival? Heh heh heh?"

Me: "No, we are going to Esther's Follies and 6th street. Check!"

Dude: "Oh come on, y'all want some goods? I know how it is, I get it. Y'all want to party? I got some molly's (had to google this term because I had no idea what it was), I got coke, I got this...I got that." He just starts rattling these hard drugs off and our eyes got HUGE. WHATTTTTTT?

Sabrina, Me and Drew: "NO!!!, we need our check. That's not our thing man. We just need our check."

Dude: "Oh come on, just tell me what you need and I got it. I got-"

You should have seen our faces. Did our waiter seriously just offer us HARD drugs? Seriously?

Dude: "Oh come on y'all...Look...

Me: "CHECK now. Look dude, you're not getting a tip. This has been the worst service I have ever, EVER had. I'm here treating my friends from out of state and I'm truly embarrassed that you're here representing this restaurant and my state like this. I wanted to show them a nice night out to dinner and you have ruined it. CHECK NOW."

Y'all I didn't know whether to laugh, get mad, or what. We were all just stunned.

Dude: "You don't have to give me a tip, that's fine. Just please don't tell on me."

Me: "Okay, we need to go. Check please!?"

Then Dude and his drugs got mad.

Dude: "S%$#! I made 40K last week. This is just my job to pay all my child support. (Can't believe this man was allowed to pro-create. POOR KIDS!) and this place is $%!@#( and man, EFF this place. I don't give a *@$@#( about this place. I DON'T NEED THIS JOB. Bibble babble bibble babble BOOSH$%@!"

All of us: "CHECK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

He finally leaves and I see a Head Waiter walk by. We tell him what happened and the guy was in shock. He apologized and the manager came up immediately. The manager was so mad, poor guy. Can't say I blame him. Regardless, the manager came back and assured us the problem was handled and needless to really say...DUDE got himself fiiiiiiiiiired. (fah-ired) Haha.

I felt sort of bad to tell you the truth...but y'all had to have been there. Dude was GONE. I can just pray for him. That restaurant did not deserve to have someone high on drugs like that. It was completely ridiculous! And a little funny...

The best part?

Erica says, "Well look at it this way...atleast it's good blog material!"

Love that girl. Hahahaha.

Anyway, sorry for the book.

We make our way downtown with chips, salsa and queso in our bellies and go to Esther's Follies. Such a fun show!!!! We even got pictures with them afterwards.

We went to 6th street and had ourselves a blast. We took pictures with strangers, and watched a very drunk lady ride a bull before Erica. Lady was wastedddddddddd. I missed the best part too. At the end, she fell face first over the side and then hops up, puts her sloppy hands in the air and everyone screams. It was hysterical. I can't even fathom what her hangover was going to feel like the next day...or three.

I bet you watch this video more than once.

I'm seriously so sad we didn't get her falling over the edge.

We met some really nice Canadians too. Like, SO nice. We had a rated G dance party with them. I mean how often is it that guys you meet, come up and introduce themselves, and seriously just dance together in a circle? They were sooooo respectful and didn't try to dance all up on our messes. It was very refreshing to say the least. Oh, and the best part is that I think they loved Andrew more than us girls. Haha. No, they weren't gay. JUST super nice and friendly. Love me some Canadians now! Sabrina was going to get a tattoo on the inside of her lip again that said "HOWDY" but after the price they wanted her to pay, she said, "HOW-bout-no-DY.":)

We got home super late, crashed out, and Drew got us some kolaches and donuts the next morning.

I was feeling good, high on happiness...and then...and then...

I saw this.

The only day I use my camera. Shame, shame.

Our time together was closing in on us and fast. It made me so sad. Furlee wouldn't get off of Sabrina's suitcase. It was so stinkin' cute. He didn't want her to go either. :(

My boys fell in love.

Can you really blame them though? Hotties!

Andrew took a few pics for us and then we went to Mount Bonnell.

Corny? You know it! :)

I thought I'd just share with you my future home ... ;)

I really needed muh shades. Lacking cool factor big time here. Haha.

After Mount Bonnell, we went downtown to find souvenirs for Erica and Sabrina. We walked around 6th street again (a completely different place during the day) and acted like typical (AWESOME) bloggers.

How does she do that??????

I think Texas looks good on them. What do you think?

On our way back to the car, we stopped back by the bull so Erica could say her goodbyes.

"Come back soon Erica...", it says.

We met up with Sabrina's friend Jason at the Red Porch downtown. I had never been there before, but it was such a fun place! We got 5 different appetizers because we're cool like that, and had one last drink together. :(

Cheers, ladies. It makes me sad right now just typing this next part.

Knowing that their flights were so stinkin' close made me tear up a few times. I really wanted to turn my car around and head back to my house and hold them captive...but I'm not a crazy lady and I am sure their lover boys wouldn't be very happy with me. ;)

The worst part of the trip was the airport. I had to hold myself together watching them get their bags out of my trunk because I'm super emotional 99% of the time ;) So, I just took pics instead so I could hide my sadness behind my lens. I sure do love these girls. They are wonderful ladies, and I am so so so so blessed that I had the opportunity to share an amazing weekend with them.