Okay, here's the run down: Sunday evening, we watched Treme on HBO at Carver's house. Super awesome show! And my manfriend has ties to the show, having played with the main character, Davis Rogan on an album of his while in New Orleans a few years ago. The show begins 3 months after Hurricane Katrina and follows some of New Orleans proprietors, musicians and their families as the recovery and rebuilding commences. The show has some great actors and features many real, local musicians as well. I'd highly recommend it.
That being said, New Orleans is still highly depressed, post-Katrina. For a city whose primary income is tourism-based, if you've ever thought about going to New Orleans, there's no time like the present. Much of the French Quarter is (I've read, anyway) alive and kicking and many of the old acts are available for your entertainment pleasure once again. Go to New Orleans Tourism for very basic information on festivals and hotels, but take the time to Google some more unique, smaller spots. I'm dying to go! If I whine about it enough, I'm hoping Scott and I will get down there!
Monday, Scott and I met up with Andi and The Boy (host of WRIR 97.3 A Party of One on Tuesday nights from 11pm to 1am!) for a baseball game at The Diamond to see our city's new team The Flying Squirrels. Yikes, what a name. The mascot's name is Nutzy and I think the "nut" theme leaves a little too much to the wild imaginations of the beer swillers in the crowd. And the non-beer swillers also. Let's just say there's a section in the stadium called the "Nutshack." Enough said. But it was a super fun time and awesome cool spring weather. Here are a few snaps of the evening:
For some reason, we missed the costume memo. The beer/peanuts guys were all dressed in odd merlin/robin hood/wizard/weird costumes. We weren't entirely sure what the theme was.
And while the boys were off buying us presents, Andi got to pose with Nutzy himself! Nutzy is the red and black one, in case you were wondering.
And, Dad, before you ask, the Squirrels won. And we played the New Britain Rock Cats. Though, we never did figure out where exactly New Britain is and the definition of a Rock Cat.
Yesterday, my supervisor and I headed up to Chantilly for a super boring conference. I was so bored, I took pictures to show you exactly how boring a trade show can be. I prefer the conferences that are more specific to our industry - you know, the ones where we actually see people we know.
Boring people, doing boring things:
And here's our boring booth. Sorry for the blur. I didn't want to startle any of those boring people with the flash.
After that we headed to the office up there and then over to PJ Skidoos in Fairfax for a dinner meeting/presentation hosted by ASHE Potomac Chapter (American Society of Highway Engineers). Very informative presentation on all the great things Arlington County has been doing to improve pedestrian and bike safety while maintaining the integrity of all major automobile and mass transit arteries. They are also still in negotiation for two different light rail lines at this point, in case any Arlington County residents out there are reading and wondering. It's something their planners are very excited about the prospect of though.
This morning, I realized I'd left my camera in my supervisor's car last night. She was on a field trip with her daughter at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens, so I sweettalked my way in to meet her to grab the camera and snuck a few quick pics on the way out! Enjoy...
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