After a morning of work, Paul and I decided to have some quality family time. So around 3pm, we packed Will up and headed downtown!
First: the Aquarium of the Americas! It was everyone’s first Aquarium trip and we had a blast (love that member’s pass!!) Will had more fun running around from exhibit to exhibit. We’re not sure if he really got that there were actual animals to be seen in the Aquarium, but he did enjoy pressing all the buttons to hear fish sounds and stories. There were lots of things to climb on all through the Aquarium… he liked that, too. (Will’s favorite were the penguins, of course!)
Then: we walked over to Jackson Square via the riverwalk park along the Mississippi River. Will munched on a Ziweback while we watched the Natchez steamboat go upstream and enjoyed the musicians and artists along the way. I bought a “Lucky Dog” at the Square and walked around Aunt Sally’s Praline shop (Will really likes Pralines — and Aunt Sally’s has unlimited free samples!) checking out the N’Awlins books while Paul bought a bag of beignets and chickory. We met back up at the Square and took in the street performers… breakdancers! Will tasted his first beignet… and boy did he like them!!
After our snack, we walked through the Square, around some of the shops in the Quarter and back to the car. We left just before 6! It was so cool that we can do so much and enjoy so many things in our incredible city… in such a relatively short period of time! We had a blast!!
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