Spring Break in New Orleans: Day 1

This Christmas Henry gave me "a week off from work" as a special gift; which is a lot considering how he has a hard time distancing himself from CapGroup. It also happens that my birthday lands on Spring Break this year and since school district employees have Spring Break week off, we agreed it was a great time to do use his week off do do something fun and spontaneous. We talked about doing another Caribbean cruise, or going to Florida, doing New York again, etc... but flight fares were through the roof! As Spring Break got closer and all hope seemed lost, Henry suggested we do a last-minute road trip to New Orelans, Louisiana.

The plan was to leave home Tuesday evening, head out to Houston and spend the night east of Houston near Channelview or Baytown, Texas. As we left left home around 5pm, I realized I forgot something, so I did a u-turn and headed back home. While I was scrambling, Henry put a hot pocket in the microwave. We left home again only remember that Henry's hot pocket was left sitting in the microwave. U-turn. Pick up the hot pocket. We finally made it out of town by 6pm.

During our first hour of driving, we stopped near Seguin, Texas to get gas. The convenience store ha a Church's Chicken next door. Mmmm... Spicy chicken tenders!!! Should we get 3? 4? But the 12-pack is such a better deal... Okay. 12 it is... and add some honey biscuits too while you're at it, please. Oh, and a Diet Coke because we're on a diet. ;-) The best cure for boredom is food, so for most of our trip, we chowed down on semi-hard, cold chicken tenders, cheetos and soda.

At around 9:30pm, we finally arrived at La Quinta. The evening was cold, wet and very windy. We dumped our bags and walked down the street on a quest for more munchies and drinks (we still had tenders left over, but we had maxed out our fried-chicken-quota for the year.) As we approached the corner convenience store, I spotted a Denny's just down the street. If you know me, I like pie. Denny's sells pies. Mmm... pie. So Denny's for pie it was. And a bowl of chicken noodle soup, too cuz I'm cold, dammit!

After the late nite meal, we stopped by the convenience store, picked up some sodas, a beer for Henry, a 6-pack of Watermelon wine coolers, and some Rolaids (damn chicken tenders gave me heart burn). We walked back to the hotel and spent the night.