The days I wish I had a punching bag...

[EricKei]

Quoth mharbourgirl

I've always wanted to visit N'awlins, purely for the food and the music. And the warm. Now if only the Hubster would co-operate.

Well, Mardi Gras season has begun. It's as good an excuse as any. See the thread in the Get Togethers forum. Failing that, Jazz Fest is always fairly awesome, provided you don't mind spending five bucks for a 16oz bottle of water... Music, rent out an apartment in the French Quarter (preferably near Canal) and open the window, or just go hang out at Jackson Square. Free music from the sidewalk buskers!

Quoth Salted Grump

We have that too, though it's combined with hordes of mosquitoes the size of cans of spam, 95% humidity, and the occasional Bear walking down the road.

Sweet! We have all of those too... Oh yes, and the occasional 1-2 foot-long flying cockroach; the general consensus on those is "Leave a window open, leave the room, shut the door and hope they fly away o_O". The black bears don't come by the real cities often...Then again, we have maybe five "real cities" in the entire *state* >_>

[mharbourgirl]

Quoth Salted Grump

We have that too, though it's combined with hordes of mosquitoes the size of cans of spam, 95% humidity, and the occasional Bear walking down the road.

Yeah, I moved to NS from the Wet Coast. I miss the FOOD. Not the rain. Not the 320 days a year gods and goddesses-bedamned rain. I traded the rain for 3 ft of snow and sub-zero temperatures that were quite a shock to a person used to being cold and wet, not frostbitten. And summer here is humidity and almost as many mosquitoes and blackflies as Winterpeg. Though, I'm not going back, but oh do I miss Chinatown and Mr. Chin's restaurant where they bring you a bunch of big plates of the most amazing noodles and rice and dumplings and you share 'em around. For cheap. It's almost impossible to get good authentic Chinese cooking, southern or northern.

Quoth EricKei

Sweet! We have all of those too... Oh yes, and the occasional 1-2 foot-long flying cockroach; the general consensus on those is "Leave a window open, leave the room, shut the door and hope they fly away o_O".

Dis be the main reason why I don't try too hard to change the Hubster's mind. I have a horror of cockroaches surpassed only by my severe phobia of spiders. And giant flying roaches? Oh hell to the NAW. My skin is crawling over here, no kidding.

You'd actually go and leave one of those nightmare bugs alone in a room? What if it DOESN'T go out? What if it crawls some place dark and you don't know about it until it lands on your face in the middle of the night?

[EricKei]

Quoth mharbourgirl

Dis be the main reason why I don't try too hard to change the Hubster's mind. I have a horror of cockroaches surpassed only by my severe phobia of spiders. And giant flying roaches? Oh hell to the NAW.

If it makes you feel any better, I haven't seen any that size in nearly a decade. One thing Katrina did do for us was to clear out the nesting grounds of many an annoying insect. Plenty of skeeters and cicadas tho ^_^

What if it DOESN'T go out?

Well, there's a reason our license plates say "Sportsman's Paradise". I'm fairly certain that most residents here either have the skill needed to shoot one of those bastids out of the air, or is related to someone who is

No worries, tho. Just avoid houses/places where people don't pick up their trash/food in a timely manner. Nothing to worry about. Besides, the food here is worth any risk ^_^