Mississippi River cruise

Finally we got to Cafe du Monde for beignets. I'm getting the order at the counter before the Mississippi cruise. We're across from Jackson Sq. with the horse drawn carriages and human statues. This guy crooned a song to Rene - really good. She bought his CD.. A fellow played his trumpet for hours along the shoreline before we sailed . I said on board, he's be smart to be there on our return so we could tip him. Sure enough, he was.

Natchez steamboat was an awesome trip. $35.50 included lunch. (Evening Jazz cruise also available.) This is a MUST DO TOURIST ATTRACTION- our favorite as the announcer talked non-stop about the sights we were seeing along the shore - a huge refinery and 2nd largest sugar plant (Dominoes) in the world. Foreign barges were going up the Mississippi for fuel or to leave cargo and Norwegian Cuise line was visiting Riverwalk.

We had fried chicken and ciollard greens, baked beans, mac and cheese, jalepeno corn bread and bread pudding for lunch on board. I put a round tip roast in the crockpot for dinner as I was so impressed with KathyMcLane's shredded beef recipe for the Glendive visioning dinner. A beef roast 8 hours in the crockpot can be shredded with a fork. She suggests dry onion soup, water, garlic and touch of cinnamon. It was awesome and have enough for another meal for the 4 of us.