Festival's, Strawberries and other stuff

As every year the French Quarter Festival falls on the same weekend as the Strawberry festival. Since the strawberry festival is my favorite and we had never been to the French Quarter festival, we had to fit them in one weekend.

Friday after work we went in the city. The French Quarter filled up quickly. There were 3 stages, one in front of the Saint Louis Cathedral, surrounded by food booths, one near the Old U.S. Mint and one by the River. There were so many food booths that we couldn't decide where and what to eat.

Saturday we rested and Sunday we took a ride to Ponchatoula, enjoyed THE best strawberry Daiquiri's, strolled around and picked up a flat of strawberries. I was really surprised that they were only 8 bucks this year, compared to $20 last year it was a real bargain.





Once we brought them home I made a Strawberry cake, I brought some Tortenguss (glaze) from Germany last summer, baked the cake from scratch

and covered some in chocolate.

I also froze a bunch of them and add them into my strawberry margaritas, YUM!!

This Sunday we went to back to visit the WWII Museum. We've went a while back but wanted to see the new addition. The Solomon Victory Theater. According to yahoo:

'Beyond All Boundaries,' created exclusively for The National World War II Museum, is a unique and powerful 4-D cinematic experience available nowhere else in the world. Created and crafted with 21st-century technology and utilizing a 120-feet wide immersive screen, the production plunges viewers into the 20th-century's most titanic struggle. It tells the tale of the Greatest Generation's journey from Pearl Harbor into the fire of epic battles to America's final victory in the War That Changed the World in the words of the veterans themselves. The Museum is honored to have Tom Hanks as Executive Producer and the voices of some of Hollywood's top stars bringing to life the words of actual World War II participants and war correspondents. True to history it is, but to appeal to the broadest possible audience -- from the Greatest Generation to Gen Y -- the Museum engaged Hollywood technicians to create a jaw-dropping experience in 4-D, a technique that engages all the audience's senses with digital effects, life-sized props, animation, and atmospherics as well as film and sound. Audiences will feel the tank treads rumbling across North Africa's deserts, brush snow from their cheeks during the wintery Battle of the Bulge, and flinch as anti-aircraft fire tries to bring down their B-17 on a bombing run over Nazi Germany. http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/5495033/LA/New-Orleans/Solomon-Victory-Theater-Beyond-All-Boundaries/D-Day-Museum/


After the theater we went back into the Museum:

They added a few new things there as well. Can't wait to take my Dad next time he visits.

Our new shutters were delivered and installed. Ready for Hurricane season once again.

My sister in law has been sending me pictures of my pretty little niece.



I send her this easter dress. She looks adorable.

Can't wait to meet her.