So our day of persuading ourselves that 6am London time was actually 6am Central time ended with complimentary three-gin cocktails from an indulging waitress and a reunion with our (yes, already) lost camera. First day - not too bad.
Paul had started the morning with an item-by-item inspection at Heathrow and continuing this streak of lucky special attention from security we all had our first ever experience with the controversial milowave scanner at Houston airport - suffice to say a design that didn't require you to assume the execution pose immediately on arrival in death-penalty enthusiastic Texas may have had a warmer reception! (Oh, and of course Paul was subjected to full body pat down by a man wearing cowboy boots.)
But all was well on touch down in New Orleans (the main risk to date: that someone takes badly to Paul's insistent impersonation of a Cajun, which consists mostly of using the word "dat" and attempting to "guar-on-tee" things. Hopefully our airboat tour driver on Monday can extend his vocabulary a little....)
And of course the highlight of the first day: seeing our gorgeous Houston family who had driven across to join us - the star of show:
Oh and of course going to John Besh's restaurant August wasn't too bad either. You can't go wrong with an amuse bouche of cavier, truffle and seafood foam.... followed by amazing crawfish tails with country ham foam, then Christian's favourite dish the spring onion soup with bacon croutons and peas, confit yellow fin tuna with chick peas,then rib eye steak with oyster bourdelaise, oysters and oyster mushrooms and a take a on affogato for dessert - all just lovely!!!
Paul had started the morning with an item-by-item inspection at Heathrow and continuing this streak of lucky special attention from security we all had our first ever experience with the controversial milowave scanner at Houston airport - suffice to say a design that didn't require you to assume the execution pose immediately on arrival in death-penalty enthusiastic Texas may have had a warmer reception! (Oh, and of course Paul was subjected to full body pat down by a man wearing cowboy boots.)
But all was well on touch down in New Orleans (the main risk to date: that someone takes badly to Paul's insistent impersonation of a Cajun, which consists mostly of using the word "dat" and attempting to "guar-on-tee" things. Hopefully our airboat tour driver on Monday can extend his vocabulary a little....)
And of course the highlight of the first day: seeing our gorgeous Houston family who had driven across to join us - the star of show:
Oh and of course going to John Besh's restaurant August wasn't too bad either. You can't go wrong with an amuse bouche of cavier, truffle and seafood foam.... followed by amazing crawfish tails with country ham foam, then Christian's favourite dish the spring onion soup with bacon croutons and peas, confit yellow fin tuna with chick peas,then rib eye steak with oyster bourdelaise, oysters and oyster mushrooms and a take a on affogato for dessert - all just lovely!!!
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