Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Battling Brothers on Bourbon Street...

I took a break from behind the camera, and gave my niece her first lesson in photography.

Lesson #1: Keep shooting, no matter what. Sometimes the best shots are caught between the shots!

Case in point:

This is the face my children make when I ask them to get together for a picture...


It actually started out well...


Until Ave squeezed a little too tight...


It's all fun and games until someone gets put into a choke hold...


More pouting ensued when I yelled, "You guys are causing a scene on Bourbon Street, and that's pretty darn hard to do!"


Jack called his brother an idiot...


Strike that...a stupid idiot...


It's really hard not to laugh at a dude high on mudbugs, with a blue mohawk, verbally assaulting you...especially on Bourbon Street...


A silent threat from the little one, using his eyes as his weapon this time, rather than his tongue!


Working on total mind control at this point, I think...


Success...the little one made the big one fear him...


And he was quite proud of himself...


And, yes...on our way to the Emerald Coast, we took a detour to The Big Easy, and walked our children very quickly in the light of the day down Bourbon Street.  

I found myself saying, "Eyes forward...keep moving...fast," over and over.  

Jack said, at the end of the day when asked what he thought about Bourbon, "I saw a lot of boobs.  And a butt.  And beignets are delicious!"  

While this may have been Lily's last trip to NOLA (she hated the city...she is not her mother's child!), I don't think it'll be Jack's last.  Dude was lovin' it!



3 comments:

Bridget said...

Oooh, I love New Orleans! Fun pictures of the boys-had me cracking up :)

Scott S. said...

See this is what I miss about your blog post. Damn your kids are huge now. Man. We must be related somehow, cause we both have some damn cool good looking kids

Kimmy said...

Never been there. Great pics your neice took :O)