About New Orleans and Stuff

I am so excited about my upcoming trip to New Orleans on Friday that I can barely think about anything else. That picture was taken in May 2003. That's the last time Lo and I went. In case you forgot, she's going to be the Glinda to my Dorothy on Saturday night. I have only two things left to buy and I will be ready. And I have to pick up my shoes from a place on Wednesday. I took them to The Shoe Hospital to have a rubber padding installed under the ball of the foot part for extra comfort. I have to admit I had a bit of anxiety leaving them there. I'm not even going to pack them in my checked luggage. I'm going to take my entire costume onto the plane in my backpack, because if there is really one time you do not want to lose something if your luggage gets lost, it's your Halloween costume for Halloween. Call me paranoid, but I'd prefer to think I am just being extra careful.

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On that last trip in 2003, we visited some of the gorgeous New Orleans cemeteries. Since Sunday will be El Día de los Muertos, I figured we would do that again. That is if we are not too dead ourselves, after Saturday night.

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Happy Birthday to Carole! (I hope you had a great Birthday weekend anyway.) Carole's 50th birthday was on Saturday and she had wonderful plans. Her son and DIL flew down from Princeton and they were going to have a great weekend with them as well as her daughter and SIL who live nearby. Unfortunately, Carole's daughter, who is due to have a baby around Thanksgiving was stricken with severely high blood pressure and had to be hospitalized on Friday for the duration of her pregnancy.

Carole loves whimsical things and I gave her those two Halloween figurines. Let's all hope her daughter and new (and first!) grandbaby are going to be fine.

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I hope I have time to post again this week. My husband visited the LucasArts headquarters in San Francisco last week on a business trip and brought back some cool pictures. I want to post some of them this week. Here's a Yoda fountain:
I want a Yoda fountain! So anyway, I'm all busy getting ready for my trip and trying to remember to do my normal stuff until Friday. I'm so excited!!!