14. Going Back to New Orleans
One morning, I woke up to a text from my mom proposing a family trip to New Orleans. About fifteen minutes later, one of my best friends texted me and asked if I was interested in meeting her out in New Orleans. As I finished reading her text out loud and my husband and I both looked at each other, a little stunned, that both these texts had come only minutes apart. Seemed like the Universe wanted us to go back to New Orleans.
I hated the idea of trying to decide between a family trip and a trip with one of my closest friends, but I threw out the idea about us all meeting up together and everyone agreed. I couldn’t believe I was getting to go back to New Orleans again! And this time I had a completed first draft, so if there was anything I wanted to see again or confirm, I had another opportunity to do so.
Almost a year to the day, I was meeting my mom, brother and sister-in-law, my best friend and her sister (with my husband) for a long weekend in New Orleans! We got to visit a lot the favorites that we enjoyed the first time (a beignet at Café du Monde was still a must!) but this time we also got to check out Frenchmen street and visit a speak easy on Bourbon Street. We spent more time in the Garden District, where a lot of my story takes place. I tried to pay more attention to the details like how the houses were spaced apart from each other and what the sidewalks looked like. I took even more pictures for reference later. And New Orleans was just as wonderful to visit the second time.
It was meant to be!
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