{"id":169,"date":"2006-10-11T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/new-orleans-trip.html"},"modified":"2006-10-11T22:14:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-11T22:14:00","slug":"new-orleans-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/new-orleans-trip.html","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"New Orleans Saints Football Ticket\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/images\/2006\/saintsticket.jpg\" \/>We are safely back from our trip to New Orleans over the (Canadian Thanksgiving) weekend.\u00a0 We all had a great time and managed to cram in loads of fun stuff for the kids and even some fun stuff for us.<\/p>\n<p>On the first day we <span>leisurely<\/span> got out of bed and went down to the French <span>Quarter<\/span> to have the breakfast of champions of <span>beignets<\/span> at <span>Cafe<\/span> <span>du<\/span> <span>Monde<\/span>.\u00a0 From there we walked down to the Aquarium where we spent some time watching the fish were Alex was most interested in the sharks.\u00a0 At the hands on exhibit I tried to convince him to pet the Nurse shark but he still doesn&#8217;t want anything to do with that.\u00a0 After we were done at the Aquarium we walked up the street to the Louisiana Children&#8217;s museum where the kids had all kinds fun playing on the stuff there.\u00a0 To top the day off we took a <span>trolley<\/span> car ride which was very exciting for Alex.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday we all went to the zoo since Andrew is really into animals right now.\u00a0 He particularly likes any types of birds, elephants, and giraffes.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday afternoon Jen and I went to the Saints game where they played the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.\u00a0 It was a close game and the Saints were trailing with five minutes to go when rookie Reggie Bush returned a punt 65 yards for the go ahead touchdown.\u00a0 It was a sold out game and when he crossed into the end zone the place just went crazy. <\/p>\n<p>Once I have some more time I&#8217;ll get some pictures posted from the trip. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are safely back from our trip to New Orleans over the (Canadian Thanksgiving) weekend.\u00a0 We all had a great time and managed to cram in loads of fun stuff for the kids and even some fun stuff for us. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/new-orleans-trip.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}