New Orleans or Bust

It was almost the latter....

The rental car company assured me that they opened at five a.m. and could get me to my six a.m. flight no problem. They lied. They didn't even open up until 5:15 this morning, and then by 5:30 it was too late for United to get my checked luggage on my flight, so I had to rebook to the seven a.m. flight, which got me into New Orleans 2-1/2 hours later than my original plan.

On the plus side, I'm in New Orleans!

I'm sitting in the hotel room, smoking a cigarette and trying to figure out what to do for dinner and where to catch part of the Bacchus parade. The end of the parade route is about a block from me, but not visible from my window, so I'll have to go downstairs. I've also got a flask of rum, courtesy of my con roommates, so I'm pretty much set with drink and lung cancer and everything!

Oh, and on the connection from Denver to New Orleans? I finished Stop, Rewind, (re)Play! Woo hoo! Now to send it to laylah_r for beta....

Live from Mardi Gras

So, having followed Elijah's float for the last 4-5 blocks of the parade route (attempting to attract him with a prodigious-but-tasteful display of cleavage), I'm back in my hotel room with (hopefully) tons of pictures and a strand of gold Mardi Gras beads thrown by the boy himself!

Okay, I'm better now.

( cut-tagging after the fact for four-letter words past this point )

Mardi Gras pics and movies and stuff

( cut-tagging: becuase it's the thing to do )

Damn weather....

So I'd planned to go for a nice walk along the riverfront, shop a little, have some of the breakfast pastry things whose French name I keep forgetting. I got up at nine, lazed a little and checked my email and LJ comments, took a shower, and came back into the main room to find it was dark. As in, bucketing rain down outside so that even I don't want to go out in it. *sigh*

So instead, I think I'll hang around the hotel, watch the rain out the window, and write smut. Oh, and hope desperately that it stops raining before tonight, because I don't know how I'd get to the party in the rain without either ruining my dress or taking a taxi two blocks (which I can't help but feel would be silly).