What happened?

After some wifi difficulties, here we go again. So here is what happened the past 14 days.

1. Cultural shock!

We left NYC. (sniff)
Then we went to Connecticut, which is unbelievable green. We spent 3 days and nights over there visiting our good old friend Tommy at the "Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center"

This is Tommy’s backyard.

It was great seeing her again and it was a real nature adventure for city mice like us, especially because of the ticks living there:

 

spooky stories + dangerous signs like this = quite scary!

2. Museum of puppetry

We tried to explore the area and we were visiting the "Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry" at the University of Connecticut.
The museum of puppetry was somehow sweet, but not really recommendable, mainly because it is very small and they had only one main exhibition "Opera and Giant Puppets: Amy Trompetter’s Barber of Seville". Sadly they had no shows or workshops at the time we arrived there.

Anyway it was a nice visit. So if you are nearby the area - do it!
(If not, don't! The city of Mansfield, CT has not too much to offer, unless you are a student or a green-nature-freak.)

 

puppets in the museum

3. New Orleans – the big easy!

Now we are in the wonderful city of New Orleans! (yeah!!!)
We absolutely LOVE this city! It’s beautiful, friendly and there is music absolutly everywhere!

Yes. EVERYWHERE!

Totally recommendable for anybody in the world who loves music! And when we say music, we mean music played by fantastic musicians with real instruments. In the streets, in every bar, in random places - MUSIC!

You would not believe how good they play and sing.

4. The Swamps

Except of listening to about 1000 bands in the short time of 8 days, we were also going to the swamps which was very impressive and lots of fun.

Gators - the other white meat.

5. Art of New Orleans

We visited some very nice exhibitions, mainly of local artists. Some of them were fantastic!
For example Chris Roberts Antieau in the Antieau Gallery, a must see!
Unfortunately a print or a photo won't show the beauty of the details of the originals ...incomparable! You have to believe us.
More nice works are from Matt Rinard in the Gallery Rinard.
Another nice one is Danny DeLancey, who is for sure also part of the next point ...

picture of Danny DeLancey (stolen from his Facebook site)

Danny, if you don't want your pic here, tell us immediately!

6. very nice people

We met so many nice people. Everybody says hello. Everybody is interested and interesting. Everyone loves his city. Understandable.

(No photos. Too private. You have to imagine)

7. Mardi Gras World

Last but not least: we visited the Mardi Gras World. Yes, this was fun, too. Lots of very fine made figures. Really a lot. Countless number of "wow" was spoken.

working on it

work is done

No! We don't want to leave. But we will. (sniff again) On Monday. We are heading to LA.