Tales of the Cocktail 2010

“Had the strangest dream that we were on a limo bus with tattooed, hairless cats and they were serving crappy vodka! Then I woke up with a killer headache……hmmm” ~My friend Jennifer on her Facebook wall this past Sunday~ I am so fortunate that: I met Ann Tuennerman (Mrs. Cocktail) when we had back to [...]

New Orleans VA ground breaking – finally!

I was there for this and will get around to posting more photos. In the meantime, here is a video for you. Sir JJ is in it too:) Click here.

The Oil Disaster: Day 63

I can’t believe I have truly bitten my blogging tongue so much on the oil disaster. It is day 63 and I finally am writing a blog post. Basically, I have been micro-blogging about it on Twitter and Facebook a bunch, but never took the time to truly gather my thoughts for a post. I [...]

Top 140 New Orleans Characters (& I’m one of them)

The Windsor Court Hotel had a nomination open for the top 140 New Orleans characters (get it…140 characters….that is the max that are allowed in a Tweet on Twitter). Anyhoo, I was watching and voting as I saw some names of my friend and people I admire get listed. I was excited to recognize so [...]

Gulf Coast Oil Spill

The Grill Room Review

“The Grill Room exceeded my expectations of a modern 4 star dining experience while simultaneously transporting me back in time to my vision of New Orleans dining of old.” ~Greta Perry~ @WindsorCourt @WCTheGrill Room The Grill Room on Facebook 300 Gravier Street New Orleans. Complimentary Valet parking. The Windsor Court Hotel in New Orleans is [...]

Antoine’s Restaurant Review

This weekend I checked one more thing off my bucket list, dining at Antoine’s Restaurant. We had 8:00 reservations for our party of 8 in the Large Annex Room located next to the Hermes Bar (we could hear the music but it was not too loud). Yours truly had an autographed picture of Delta Burke [...]

HBO’s “The Pacific” premier etc…

“The Pacific transports you back in time to a war none of us can imagine. It also gives it a personal feeling with superb character development. If you do not have an appreciation for the Greatest Generation yet, this will seal the deal.” ~Greta “Hooah Wife” Perry~ Update: This series begins March 14th on HBO. [...]

New Orleans Saints Parade Video

We had an afternoon/evening family adventure with 800,000 of our closest friends (estimated amount in attendance today). The kids got out of school 2 hours early and we actually waited to get on the Causeway with all the fans. I decided to go the reverse route and though I moved slowly through the quarter, did [...]

Shiny Happy New Orleans

Three years ago this past January, we decided to make a suburb that separates itself from the city of New Orleans by a 24 mile bridge, our home. We immediately fell in love with our forever home and yours truly started this blog (Hooah Wife is my other). Because of my positive energy and ability [...]