blended adoptive family sighting in New Orleans!!!!!

ALERT! ALERT! Blended adoptive family spotted on the streets of New Orleans!!!!!

Truth be told, my family wasn't all that excited or supportive of me setting my camera on the ground and using the timer to get this image in the middle of the French Quarter in New Orleans. Probably wasn't the smartest idea to set it on my purse, either, but I was banking on the fact that not many people approach us in a big city. 

*side note* There was this ONE time a guy lurched out of the shadows at the kids and I as we were heading to our car after a long night at the Houston Rodeo. He asked for money.... Did I mention it was a LONG night? Or that I'd carried Nick the entire walk? I replied with something along the lines of "Are you serious? Do you not see the F-I-V-E children I have with me? They take all of my money! There's none for left for ME, much less some STRANGER! Who do you think you are?" The kids said they'd never seen someone run away so fast. Ever!

Besides, don't Brad and Angelina walk the streets with their kids all the time? If it's good for them, it must be for us, too! Actually, we love New Orleans. We were treated with 3 festivals that day: Seafood Fest, Creole Tomato Fest and Zydeco Fest. All free. Music on every corner, people dancing, delicious food smells, yummy eating and that energy vibe that only NOLA can offer.

Lucky children of mine were tortured with a request to sit on different steps of homes that lined a street perpendicular to Bourbon. They look thrilled, right?