This is really hard because I have, I have like three.

Gaines?

Raisin Cain's?

Oh, I do love Raisin Cain's fried chicken, which is a fast food chain that we don't have here in Washington.

Started in Louisiana.

Yeah.

Welcome back, everybody to this week's bonus episode of the DCL duo podcast.

And today, we are going to laissez-laise-laix-mant-rulet.

And if you don't know what that means, it means let the good times roll because we want to talk to you about sailing out of New Orleans or Nola to the locals down there. Or Nolans. Naulands. That's right. Naulands, y'all. And somebody asked me the other day what Nola was in OLA. It's the abbreviation for New Orleans, Louisiana. So that's what the locals sometimes abbreviated as is Nola. So we want to talk to you about New Orleans. We've got a trip coming up sailing out of New Orleans here in a couple of weeks. This isn't going to be our pre-trip planning show. This is our show more like our embarkation port shows where we wanted to share a little bit of our knowledge about sailing out of New Orleans. Now, really we're going to focus on things to do, places to eat, maybe some places to stay, stuff like that in New Orleans because we actually haven't sailed out of New Orleans. Now, really we're going to focus on things to do, places to eat,

maybe some places to stay, stuff like that in New Orleans, because we actually haven't sailed out of the port of New Orleans before. This is our first time doing it. So we will be sure to update you on that process in our trip report show. You might be asking yourselves, why would two people from Seattle know anything about New Orleans? Well, if we haven't shared this on the podcast prior, you're new to listening. My folks actually spent some time in New Orleans before I was born,

but have recently, not recently, actually 12 years ago now or maybe even a little bit longer,

they purchased a small home in the French quarter down there as a vacation property. And so they go down to New Orleans for around about half the year, just about every year and participate in all the festivals. They love Jazz Fest down there and Marty

Gras. And so right after Katrina, actually, my dad got roped into riding on a float crew, which

for those of you don't know, Marty Gras is actually kind of an extended festival time in New Orleans.

And it starts weeks in advance of the actual Marty Grawe Day, Fat Tuesday.

And the parades down there are actually thrown by private membership organizations.

People join pay dues and then staff floats.

My dad was involved with one of the largest of such float crews, spelled K-R-E-W-E, for those of you who

haven't experienced them before, we were in the crew of Endymion. And so my dad got involved and

roped me into it. And for 10 years, we rode on a float in what is the largest of the parades

at Mardi Gras. It's not on Tuesday. It's on the Saturday before. It's called a super crew to be

specific because the largest cruise, so all of these clubs that Brian's talking about that have

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