New Orlean Pictures

Better late than never, eh?

I didn't take too many pictures of New Orleans, but I took a couple in the French Quarter.



I started off at the Garden District, which consists mainly of houses. The architecture was beautiful, and we saw a couple houses owned by famous people. 

Anne Rice lived here for a period of time.

Sandra Bullock's house(:

  I definitely thought the horse stall/holds were cute and quirky. They literally lined the streets.

Places where you could leave your horse[s]

From there, we took the street car to the French Quarter.

Jackson Square

The square was named after Andrew Jackson.

Fountain in Jackson Square

There were so many amazing pieces of artwork outside of Jackson Square. Local artists would sit and paint/draw and sell. Their customer base was pretty good also. 

Afterwards, we just kind of ventured around the French Quarter.

 There were some really cool architectural bits here. We also saw some musicians and whatnot.

Finally, we finished off the day [and trip] with beignets from Cafe Du Monte. Yum!

Thus, concluded my trip to New Orleans. (:

Trip Part 2: Beach

Psh, it didn't take me forever to blog about the second part of my trip...


In my defense, I have a really good reason!


I'm practically up to my neck in summer assignments and my SAT Prep class [that I feel like I'm wasting my summer with...] Nah, the class is fine... But really, who wants to do SAT work over the summer?



Anyways, the second part of my trip was pretty self explanatory.

I went to the beach.

Lookie! Isn't it pretty?

Wow. Shocker, right?

As you would imagine, I did all sorts of beachy stuff. Swam in the ocean, walked on the boardwalk, had a picnic lunch.


And this is the part where I was going to upload the pictures of New Orleans... unfortunately, I have summer homework from my summer SAT class...


Those pictures will be uploaded on another day if I ever get free time(:

Trip Part 1: New Orleans

Oh good gosh. I've never been so glad to be home before.

I'm going to break this post into two posts, because as one, it's going to be super long and nobody wants to read that. 


To say these couple days were a roller coaster is an understatement. Not to say I didn't enjoy myself visiting abroad -- I love traveling and seeing new places. It was more of the family aspect that threw me off. My aunt and I don't tend to see on the same page, per say. She still thinks I'm that three year old she used to babysit.



Moving on... because no one wants to hear teenage angst



New Orleans.

Three words things that come to mind?
-Amazing architecture. 
-Fun, jazzy vibe.
-Hot.

Seriously, I was burning up over there. The first day, after the end of my two tours, I felt like collapsing. It was a mixture of the heat and lack of water...

The two tours I went on were from the same company called "Free Tours By Foot" which basically means, they provide you with tour guides, and show you  a certain area, and then, at the end of the tour, you can choose whether or not to pay the tour guide.

Personally, I thought the tours were really good for "free", and yes, I did end up paying both my tour guides. I think I enjoyed the Garden District Tour more though, cause it was morning compared to my already over-heated self during the afternoon French Quarter Tour.



New Orleans was pretty nice; the Garden District was more like residential style houses [I got to see Sandra Bullock's and Nicolas Cage's houses!] and I absolutely loved the French Quarters, which was basically downtown.



I think the French Quarters had more history stuff that interested me. [New Orleans/French Quarter thrived off of piracy, and then later on, the Italian Mob took over, which,I thought was cool xD]


Of course, I also thrived off of the energy in the French Quarter. There was jazz music and restaurants everywhere. The trees were adorable. They were all decorated with Mardi Gras beads and such [which I learned from a friend later on, that they were left over from drunken partying, haha]


I got to try famous Cajun foods including Gumbo and Jambalaya, and I also got to go to Cafe Du Monte to try their beignets. (:


Overall, New Orleans was pretty fun [the people I stayed with told me to come back when I was 21, haha].


I'll add pictures tomorrow. I'm to lazy to upload the pictures from my camera. 

New Orleans Here I Come!

Hey all(:

Fairly quick post today. Watch this post go on  forever...


I'm all packed and whatnot for New Orleans(: My flight leaves at roughly 8AM, which means I need to get to the airport at 5/6ish...joy. I'm going with my aunt and staying with a couple of her friends, and then, we're setting out to Virginia Beach for the remaining of the week [so, basically Wednesday to Saturday].



Honestly, I don't know how I feel about spending a week with my aunt... But enough of that teenage angst.




I'm going to New Orleans and the beach! (:

The French Quarter. One of the places I'll be visiting. Picture provided by Google

I probably won't update/blog until I get back. 'Til then(:

Getting Ready for New Orleans

I apparently like to blog every other day. I just went through a couple of my posts and it seems pretty consistent, and I find that a bit amusing because I don't try to blog every other day-- I just blog whenever I feel like it.


Anyways, moving on. I'm going to New Orleans for a couple days with my aunt! (: She's trying to determine where to retire, and she's basically place hopping. We're leaving Friday, visiting some of her friends in New Orleans, then, around Tuesday, we're going to Virginia Beach until Saturday.

My room looks like a whirlwind...

So, as of now, I'm supposed to be packed. Key word: supposed. I started sometime last week, and as you can see, didn't get very far. It doesn't help that the suitcase is super tiny [my standard sized towel basically takes up half my suitcase] because I'm not going to be able to life a giant suitcase onto the plane, and my elderly aunt doesn't trust the luggage claim. Therefore, I have to pack light... yeah, let's see how that goes.



I went shopping today and picked up a couple things with one of my best friends, Megan. If you're interested in my haul, you can click here(:

A couple of things I got.

I'm actually really excited to use a couple of the products I got.(: I'd do reviews on the products I got, but I don't think I'm very qualified...haha.

I've been trying to do a couple DIY projects and one of the projects were these shorts. I spent around 2 hours hand sewing fabric... I'm not entirely sure whether I'm going to wear them, or start over and do something completely different with them. Overall, I'm pretty proud with my first sewing DIY.



As of right now, my writing is on temporary hold. I've got a couple ideas I'm really excited about, but I haven't gotten time to sit down at my computer and type. After I come back from my trip, I have an SAT Prep Academy I have to attend, and then, I guess, after that I get to have some free time, before I go to the beach with my friend.




A little update on my life ^_^

Brave

The cutest movie ever. [Picture found on Google]

Basically, I spent this weekend with family and friends watching kid movies. ^_^ You can never be too old for animated movies!


Saturday, my family decided to torture me by having a big family lunch at my grandmother's, for no apparent reason [because my family is weird like that]. Which, under any other normal circumstance, I would love [my grandmother-- 95 years old and still going strong-- makes the best food], but of course, because of my surgery, I still can't chew properly... So I had soup. Soup, when everyone else was having noodles, duck, chicken, etc.


Afterwards, like any other day, my cousins and I went to see a movie-- Madagascar 3 (: It was really cute. I loved it like I loved the first two.


Then, my cousins decide to torture me even further by going to Five Guys, leaving me to chew [painfully] on a total of five french fries. -__- 


Then, today, I went with two of my friends to see Disney's new Brave. It was amazing. I almost cried at the end. Really. I think I love this movie. It was the cutest movie in the world.

I kinda loved her hair...and personality. [Picture from Google]

Overall successful weekend! (:

Writing

Recently, I've started to write more ^_^

I'm actually really proud, because I went through a period of several months where I haven't even bothered to write or pick up a pen.


I post my short stories on this site called, Figment, and truth be told, I'm still getting the hang of it.
You know you wanna click it ----> Click Me!

This is my notebook where I put all my wonky ideas down. I mostly just type up all my stories on my laptop, but this is the thing I write random stuff in. The cover says "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain."



Sidenote: My face is getting better O.o

That's it for now(: