I parked a few blocks down, and I could hear the music wafting out of the park and through the streets as soon as I got out of my car. Definitely put a little pep in my step for the walk, and set a good tone for the afternoon.
Here's just a few quick snaps from the day:
Cajun waltzing! I proudly texted my mother to inform her I was upholding our heritage by watching tipsy, sun-reddened folk weave around in 3/4 time. To which she responed, "You get out there and DANCE! It's in you, cher."
After a short but determined bout of hands-on (feets-on?) experimentation, I had to concede that it may not, in fact, be in me. My appreciation for zesty fiddling, accordioning, and washboarding from that point on was limited to mostly keeping my feet on the ground and enthusiastically bob-nodding and swaying.
Also had my first softshell crab poboy. I devoured it in its entirety, which... is how it's supposed to be eaten. Logistically, not the easiest feat standing in a park with a single paper napkin . Snagged this from the Ninja booth, and though I wasn't expecting a sushi restaurant to be the one pushing out softshell crab poboys, I have to say they did a pretty fine job of it. Those dollops of spicy mayo on top made my afternoon.
Lessons and demonstration in basic Cajun two-step dancing. At which I also failed miserably.
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| "Awberry" would be the most adorable flavor, though. |
Finished out the afternoon with some artisan popsicle from Meltdown. Decided on the lime ginger flavor, which won out over the salted caramel by only a narrow margin. That ginger really popped!
And just some good old fashioned mannequin heads on fence spikes to round off my walk to my car.
Turned out to be quite a beautiful day after some ominous threats of rain. Not a bad way to kick off the week!
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