Sunday, April 10, 2011

French Quarter Fest Day 1

This weekend is French Quarter Fest which as you know means the whole festival happens just blocks from our house. FQF is the largest free local music festival in the world (that's what the website says anyway) they have 9 or 10 stages dedicated to local music and it's all free. We have gone to the festival every year as a matter of fact I think FQF was the first live music (other than Scott at home) Chance ever heard. Chance is old enough this year to really stay all day and enjoy himself so this year we are hitting the festival every day.


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It started Friday with just Chance and myself since Scott was working. We were on a mission to make it down the riverwalk to the Louis-Louis stage by 11:00am as a friend of mine's restaurant was sponsoring the group playing at that time. We stopped for a while to watch the river before heading on down to hear Marc Stone. They were a lively way to start off the festival and although I didn't feel compelled to buy their album I will definitely look into heading to J'anitas (friend's restaurant) to check them out again.


Chance watching the band



Chance wearing beads a guy gave him at the concert.

After we listened to some more music we took off looking for something to eat, although all the festival food is amazing! Honestly this is not hotdogs and hamburgers people we are talking crawfish etouffee and fried shrimp po' boys that is exactly what backfired on me with a four year old who I forgot to warn about the food choices and so I felt bad that there was nothing he would normally eat there. So we went on a mission to find more Chance friendly food and ended up at the Clover Grill. With only four tables and a bar I wasn't sure there would be space but turns out it's just far enough all the beaten festival path that there was plenty of room for us. We sat at the bar so as not to take up too much of their precious space and ate a super tasty hamburger and hotdog. It was soooo good after all that walking around that food really hit the spot.
After lunch we walked on down to our mailbox where we picked up the mail and then walked on home to rest and wait for Daddy to get home.
We left the house at 10:30 in the morning and arrived back at the house at about 4:30 in the afternoon. It was a long day but tons of fun!

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