Evangeline
Found a new place for after dinner cocktails – Evangeline on Toulouse and N. Murat – it’s in my hood and it wasn’t Pal’s (with it’s smoky weird crowd) and it wasn’t Ralph’s (with it’s smoky Yat crowd). I can’t remember the owner’s name but G and I had run into him at Ralph’s a while back and he told us about his new place.
I spoke to a guy there who has spent every Christmas in New Orleans for the last twenty something years – he is trying to convince his company to let him be virtual so he can move here. I like the sound of that. I like hearing that people who love and get this city are wanting to move here now.
G and I were having dinner at Cafe Minh and talking about our stress and how we need to develop a different attitude – a different mindset – because even though we are enjoying ourselves and happy to be here – the stress of modern living is weighing on us in a not so good way. Thankfully, there are people like Larry (our makeshift somelier at Minh’s) and then Raymond came in with Megan and his friends Tom and Stacy and I adore Raymond – we had our graduation party together at Monster’s with Johnny Jay and the Hit Men playing – that was so long ago – it was Raymond, Courtney, Nancy and me – dancing like tangled weasels all night.