.: It’s pronounced Nawlins…

Jenny and I decided to head south for the weekend and party it up in New Orleans, or as we later learnt “Naw-lins” as the locals prefer to call. Their slogan is “How you doing?”, they support the Saints (Super bowl 2010 champions) and their tourist t-shirt all proclaim “NOLA” (which is basically New Orleans, LouisanA, smart huh?)

At the airport, New Orleans, LA

We had a late afternoon flight on Friday which we nearly missed with all the Friday rush hour traffic, but thankfully we had it to MKE (Milwaukee airport) with a little time to spare. We boarded and were ready to start our adventure, which happened a little earlier than expected…

Sleep time for me!

We arrived in Minnesota airport were we had a layover, exiting boarding gate B, we started to head to boarding gate C, where our connection was, then we saw a few food stalls on the opposite side and decided since we were pretty close to it we would make a detour for our tummies first, once we had bags of McDonalds (don’t judge) firmly in our grip we started to head towards to gate…which turned out a little further than we expected…Then I heard the airport announcement calling “miss Jennifer Rapsch and a “miss Robyn Widgel” totally confused at the beginning (it’s not often we refer to Jenny as Jennifer, and they totally Butchered both our surnames), but suddenly it clicked and I turned to her and said, “OMG, they just called us!” She turns to me and goes “I didn’t hear it.” My response was “I don’t care, I did…let’s GO!” So we ran to the barding gate that Jenny assured me was ours, but upon arrival we noticed not only and empty boarding gate, but signs posted for Philadelphia…

Almost missing our flight...not fun!

I turned and asked “are you sure it was E and not C?” This I have to admit was a fail on the part of the airport as they never printed it on our tickets, which most do so you have an easy reference. So took the chance and ran back to gate C, praying that we would not get left behind, we weren’t…although we were the last to board the plane, and had to put up with the flight attendant teases us for being late ‘cos we stopped for Mickey D’s. Thanks Dude!

Finally we made to NOLA, now we have to get to the hostel…hmmm…