LSU Orthodontic Alumni Weekend

Ben and I made our annual trip to New Orleans for my LSU Ortho meeting. We love getting to see all our ortho friends, just sad that we don't get to see them more often. Friday night, we all went to eat at GW Fins. Excellent food and great company! After eating and a quick stop to our hotel, we all headed to the LSU Cocktail Party at Muriel's followed by our usual stops, Tropical Isle and the Gold Mine. Brian, Nanette, Rich and Amie... Meredith, Jeff, Tripp and Maylin...

Nicole, John, Kelly, Donovan, Ben and I...

Me and Donovan aka "Brother and sister ortho"...

D and Kel...

Me and my sweet hubby...

Hanging out on Bourbon in front of Tropical Isle...

The ladies in Tropical Isle...

Me and Amie...

With green and red dots everywhere?..

Taking my picture in front of the "hand grenade", Tropical Isle's famous drink...

Rich, being a huge Miss State fan, got the cowbell from the band and decided to play it...

More cowbell. Rich and Amie will be joining us for the LSU-State Game this year. So, for those who tailgate with us, get ready for some Tiger Bait...

Our FAVORITE place in the Quarter, at least mine...

Everybody on the dance floor...

Amie and Rich...

Me and Jeff...

Me and Ben. Yes, he is on the dance floor!..

Me trying to take our pic...

Jeff offers to take it instead, only for Rich to step right in front of him...

More of Ben on the dance floor, had to document this as it only happens every once in a blue moon...

Kel and Nanette taking a break...

As Ben and I were getting dressed to go to dinner, I noticed a leak in our bathroom ceiling. On our way out, we told the front desk. She said they may have to change our room if they could not fix it. Well, sure enough, when we got back from dinner, we had to change rooms. Ben jokingly said to the receptionist "You are moving us to the penthouse, right?" She laughed and said a bellman would be up with our new keys and to help us with our luggage. While getting all our luggage together, she called our room, said he would be right up and she had a surprise for us! The surprise: they moved us to the Maison Orleans, which is the Club Level of the Ritz Carlton. The room was huge with a fireplace, wood floors and a huge jacuzzi tub. The "club level" included breakfast, along hors d'ouevres and cocktails all day long. Very nice!

Ben and I had decided not to go to the banquet this year. We wanted to be lazy all day Saturday then go out to eat on Saturday night for our 10th wedding anniversary. And that is what we did. We ate breakfast and lunch in our room and stayed in bed until 7 PM. Yes, I said 7 PM. It was wonderful! We did get dressed and went to eat dinner at Dickie Brennan's Steakhouse, the same place we spent our first anniversary.

Many thanks to Moma G for coming to town to take care of Cooper and Kyleigh so we could go out of town. We love you!!