French Market’s Vieux-To-Do Number 2

I’ve been down with a cold and in overall recovery mode this weekend, so I sent Ali off to check out the latest big New Orleans festival. She took the camera and when she got home from a day of running around, her semi-bored answer to how it went was: “Oh, you know. The usual. Tons of food. Music. Free. You know- the usual.”

One day she may come to realize just how not-usual all that is.

But that’s for somewhere down the road. In the meantime, the second annual Vieux-To-Do combined three festivals that used to go on seperately- the Creole Tomato Festival, the Cajun/Zydeco Fest and the Seafood Fest, all held in and around the French Market and Old US Mint, at the very edge of the French Quarter.

Food is always front and center in these things, and her pics made me wish I’d braved the heat and the sniffles after all:

That would be a thin toast with a slice of Creole tomato and local fresh shrimp, broiled and looking amazing.

And the Pine Leaf Boys were keeping the crowd dancing even while they sweltered:

So, yeah, it looks like Alison was right. Just another typical NOLA festival.

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