My daughter is 19 and still living at home. We have a good relationship and enjoy each others company.
She has a sorority function coming up and the theme is the Kentucky Derby

...so of course the girls want to wear a hat.

We didn't want to spend $68 on a hat here at dillards. So i get online and found a hat that i think she'd like and the shop happens to be in Jackson Square in the French Quarter. So with my logical thinking...let's go to new orleans and buy that hat...nevermind that i could order it online and they'd ship it to me! So off we went today at about 1:00.

We get to NO about 3. No parking in the free parking but lucked out with a great spot directly on decatur street, right near the hat shop! Ok...so we get the hat and a fleur de lis necklace (ya know that fleur de lis' are the rage right now!). We wander around the quarter, watch a commercial being shot, enjoying each others company. We leave the Quarter at 5. Thanks to construction on Canal st and a wreck on I-10 it took us 1 hour and 15 minutes just to get out of NO.

We finally arrive home around 9ish after stopping in Baton Rouge to pick up some food.
Gas $25
Hat $38
Fleur de lis necklace $14
Beignets $1.75
Stuffed Artichokes $14
Pick up dinner at pf changs $40
Pick up dinner at tj ribs $50
Window Shopping Free
Daytrip to New Orleans... @$200 (could have saved $150 by ordering online)
Spending the day with my daughter...PRICELESS but i could have gotten away with this alot cheaper and if I ever get a bright idea like this again someone please
