October 17, 2005

  • I took Meg to the airport Saturday morning so she could finally make it up to see Jeff.  Afterwards I decided to drive around and check out the city.  I went to the quarter and saw lots of taped up iceboxes on the curbs:



    I found a parking space on Wilkinson, which I had never noticed before that morning.  I was planning on A- finding a cup of coffee and an egg sandwich or B- getting a six pack and going to sit by the river when I smelled something super yummy.  I found French Quarter Candles, a trendy little candle studio.  I bought a candle for myself and one for my mom, and before I could knew it I had a mimosa in one hand and s piece of praline krumble in the other.  THIS IS WHY I LIVE HERE!!  So I wandered on through the quarter and found a cigar shop that was open and bought my dad a nice cigar from an old Dominican - "Screw the Cubans!!" 


    There wasn't much going on at the French Market


     


    so I decided to drive out to Lake View.  Oh, is it bad.  I went out to Bywater, Marigny, Chalmette...sooooooo bad. 


    I drove down Hwy 90, towards Ft. Pike, and guess what I saw:



    The Castle is okay!! It looks like it has some damage to the lower left side, but otherwise it came out alright!! 


    Edit:  I saw the other side of the castle this past weekend, and it doesn't look so well.  The front half of the first floor is gone, with the interior exposed.  I couldn't get a decent picture, but I'm hoping it can all be repaired.  That castle has been there for as long as I can remember, and it would be a shame to lose it. 10/24/05


     Some other homes along Hwy 90 and Hwy 11 didn't fare so well:


     


    But, some happy memories were made in the wake of all this crap.  Matt's mom got married!! 


     


    Isn't Ms. Gay so pretty?  And look at Mr. Joey, so charming!!


    The wedding was supposed to take place October 1st, was canceled, delayed, then thrown together in three days.  Matt and his brother played at the reception.


     


    Good Times!!!


    Okay, I've unloaded enough pictures for now.  Some projects are on the verge of being finished, so we'll get those up soon.  TTFN!

Comments (6)

  • That castle is awesome. I don't know the story behind but it's very, very awesome.

  • I don't quite know the story behind it, either.  It's just always been there, on the side of the highway.  I was friends with a girl in grammar school who lived near it in a house shaped like a pyramid.  That house is gone :(   I don't know if you've heard about the "Twinspans" on the news, but they are the bridge part of I-10 that connect New Orleans to Slidell that were destroyed by Katrina.  Anyway, you can see the castle from the twinspan approach.

  • Mrs. Gaye looks fabulous!

  • Dude, btw, roy is older than me by about a month. Fuuuuuuuuuuuu.

  • I talked to some people at work, and it turns out that the castle was built by a guy who just wanted a castle.  It is pretty small, as you can tell from the picture, only one bedroom, and he built it all by himself.  His wife left him during the process.

  • That's funny.

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