holidays! they're here!

behold, an influx of photographs because i have been neglecting my blogging responsibilities for so long. honestly it's only because being an attorney doesn't leave me with much time or desire to sit in front of my computer and blog.

for the record, i do realize that was a shameless plug of my profession. oh well. it still shocks me sometimes, and as long as it does, i will have to repeat it aloud to make it true.

i kicked off this holiday season with one of my favorite events of the year: the 4th annual white family door county thanksgiving trip! it was, as expected, a weekend full of beers, board games, cheese curds (oh, wisconsin), hiking, and laziness. in other words, HEAVEN. my dad outfitted us with some of his homemade moonshine and we had a ball!

i'm gonna be a supermodel

we're dogsitting! i'm a seasoned veteran, what can i say. while our friends charley and shelby are off galavanting in california and mexico (ugh), we have athena for a whole month! thankfully she's super chill and very photogenic. it should be a good month of naps, walks and tug-of-war (no fetch though - poor athena's got a torn acl!). she's already proven to be a great study buddy and still-life for my photographing pleasure.

this is totally one of those "feet photos" photographers love to take. i am so on my way, people.

apartment hunting

so, becky has arrived in new orleans for some interviewing and apartment hunting! i have to say, the entire process is exhausting, especially because it consists largely of looping around the city and looking for "for rent" signs. yesterday we repeated that process and followed up on some craigslist finds. here's a peak at our favorite so far:

the apartment comes complete with plenty of four-legged neighbors, including this weird stickbug

afterward, becky, bryan and i went to bridge lounge, our favorite place to go for yummy drinks. bridge lounge is in the lower garden district on magazine. it's a dog-friendly bar, so becky and i plan on coming with our future pups. until then, we'll continue to enjoy the candlelight, low ceilings, diverse playlist and great people watching.

my first drink was a maker's mint julep, followed by a margarita.

all of the drink selections written in colorful chalk

it was 4 pm on a tuesday. of course we were the first people there.

after bridge lounge, we stumbled into another apartment. i was too distracted playing with the current tenants' puppies to truly appreciate the apartment. after i bent over to pick a puppy up and spilled half of my margarita on the carpet, i knew this wasn't the place for us. we ended our day of hard work at baru bistro & tapas in east riverside. it was super delish AND a byob! (you know i love those)

bryan was a dear and ran to breaux mart to get us wine and came back with natty light.

first friday in nola

this weekend is marty's friend julia's birthday, so marty, his roommate max, and some others (beneficiaries of birthday parties orchestrated in part by julia) returned the favor last night by organizing a small get-together at a po' boy shop and a walk over to the bayou boogaloo fest in mid-city. it was such a great way to spend a friday evening!

in the backseat of max's car, as usual. but in a convertible, i couldn't complain

max speeds, so my triumphant first view of downtown new orleans was hard to catch

we ate at the parkway bakery & tavern, which is the oldest po' shop in new orleans (unfortunately, the restaurant resolution was not satisfied - i've eaten here once before). can you believe the size of these po' boys? marty, the glutton that he is, had to order larges for us both.

we tried to walk off our food comas by heading over to the fest on bayou st. john

no new orleans festival is complete without live music. brother tyrone performed (go here to preview and buy his cd!)

all of the sweetest, most kidnap-worthy dogs were within my sight, of course

marty tried especially hard to proposition these two. their leashes were too short, unfortunately for me

i hope everyone's having a great weekend!

p.s. i didn't catch julia's surprise on camera because i think we'd met all of one time before last night. my creep-dom has its bounds, you know.