Our NIght on the Town

We had our first overnight trip last weekend.  We left Buddy with his friends at the doggie day care and went to New Orleans which is only a little over three hours from the park.   Mapquest and our GPS disagreed on the best route once we hit the city but we found it ok.

 

 

We stayed at the Inn on Bourbon Street, right in the heart of the French Quarter.  It was built in 1859 as the French Opera House, the first opera house in America. 





Our restaurant -- sorry guys, Dan was too shocked
 to get a picture of the girl.



We had dinner at a nice restaurant and walked around for a while – nothing too exciting.  I guess we are getting too old for all the carousing that was going on after dark.  We headed for the hotel around 9:00.  Kind of early you might think but it was late enough to see the bare bottoms of dancers hanging out of barroom doors and for Dan to see a girl turn around in front of him raising her shirt to show she wasn’t wearing a bra.

It was nice to be able to watch television in the hotel -- we still haven’t figured out how to get any consistent reception here.  For the trip back we followed the coast through Mississippi.  That was truly beautiful.  US 90 literally hugs the coast for much of the state.  Beachfront homes are across the street from the gulf.  It was such a beautiful drive.

Hi! I'm Buddy Lee

Hello all!  My name is Buddy Lee Nesbitt, the namesake of this blog.  I am accompanying my owners on this grand adventure of their’s and thought you might want to know how things are going from my perspective.

So far it has been a lot of fun.  There are so many different smells and sounds here.  I have seen two deer – boy, are they tall!  When we go on our long walks I can smell all kinds of tracks they have left behind.  I hear there are alligators in the lake but have not seen any yet.  I keep looking for them, though.

Is that one?

Nope.  I'll keep searching.

I miss the dog park back on the IOP (hi Otis!) but have made some new friends at the Doggie Day Care I go to on Thursdays when my owners go sightseeing.  The proprietor has a black Great Dane and one of the workers has a couple of black mixed breeds like me.  Their dogs come to work on Thursdays so I will have someone to play with.  They call us the Black Dog Gang.

Meeting a new friend

Speaking of work, when my owners go somewhere I get in my new office that Grandpa made for me.  I really like it!  It is the perfect size for me.  I like it so much I sometimes curl up in there even when everyone is home.

But the best part of living in a trailer is I'm allowed on the couch!  Because I can’t see out of any of the windows from the floor, my owners spread a blanket over part of the couch so I can look outside.  It’s great!

Ahh, heaven!