Getting Settled in New Orleans

After getting the minivan yesterday at the airport I shuttled Chelsea and her friend to their conference, after a quick stop at CdM. We spent the day comparison shopping marinas, had lunch at a great BBQ place called Blue Oak BBQ ("Vegan Free Since 2012"), then committed with paperwork to the marina we were already in. Then we spent an hour on the phone with the power company trying to get that set up, and a modifier to the boat insurance to include the marina. The boat insurance went up slightly, almost like the insurance industry had a thing against New Orleans. We met Chelsea and her friend for dinner down the street from their conference to Mother's, which is one of the few places we remember from being here years before Katrina.

This weekend we need to pump out and move over a couple to our longer term slip. This morning I need to get our power cable hooked up to the transient slip we are in so we can have some hot water and get everything charged up. We head back to Phoenix on Monday, so we need to get the boat moved and buttoned up by then. The front came in a day later than expected, but it started blowing pretty hard during the night, and it's still going at it pretty good.

We fly back to New Orleans on the 30th, and we figure it will take us a day or two to wrap things up and get gone on our way to the panhandle of Florida, somewhere, where the boat will sit for a couple weeks while we go back for Madi's graduation and Xmas.