Useful legislation

In June of 2008, the Louisiana House of Representatives decided in a 62-33 vote that Sazerac was the official cocktail of New Orleans.  Finally, a useful action to come from a legislative body!  Honestly, I am not sure who the 33 were or what their big problem was with whiskey, bitters, and a little splash of some kind of absinthe or absinthe-substitute.  It’s pretty darn good, and it certainly has history.  

After we were all reasonably dried off from our gator-seeking adventure, we regrouped and made our way to the Sazerac House for the free tour.  Cas booked it ahead of time, as there are limited time slots, and we were as close to on time as we were likely to get.  What you do is start the tour on the third floor, learning all about Peychaud’s Bitters, then on to a quick lesson in the fate of original absinthe and the development of its replacement. All capped off with a small sample of a Sazerac cocktail.  The second floor got us some info about different cocktails and a sample of a rum drink, and the first floor handed us some straight Sazerac rye.  It was pretty great, all in all, and certainly a place we could have deposited Jeff and returned hours later, only to find him asking follow up questions and comparing cocktail notes.  

He really wants a wall like this one in his home.  Maybe, someday...

From there, we went to Redfish grill for an amazing meal.  Just in time, too, because the majority of us missed lunch in favor of figuring out how to get dry.  That was our last moment as a big group together, so I made the poor waitress take a photo.  Ah, good times!  

We said goodbye to Jeff, Reema and Jack on a street corner.  They were headed back to their car so they could get to bed early and make it back to Dallas tomorrow in time for Reema’s work event that evening.  We are now back down to Jane, Danny, Cas, me and Dad.  Still a fantastic group.  The five of us went to Crescent City Brewery to sit still for a moment and have a beer or two, and we got back to the hotel kind of early.  It’s for the best- we’ve been moving pretty much nonstop for the past few days, and a little early-to-bed wouldn’t kill us.  

The plan tomorrow is to hit up our new faviorite breakfast spot, a place called Two Chicks, and head over to the World War II Museum with our 10 am tickets in hand.  After that, we shall see.  It’s supposed to be the number one attraction in all of New Orleans, and we’re ready to see it.  Today is the 77th anniversary of D-Day, so I can’t think of a better moment to check the place out.  More on that tomorrow.  Until then, good night from New Orleans.  

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