Southern Mama of Two

Happy Wednesday! I am sharing our overnight trip to New Orleans for our 1 year anniversary. Heads up that almost all of my pictures are of the food we ate haha!   Saturday morning we were up early and headed out towards New Orleans. We stopped in Hammond for lunch. We ate at a new to us restaurant called Our Mom's Restaurant . We ordered an appetizer of fried green beans. They were good but kind of spicy. We split the surf n turf burger and it was super yummy!   We walked down the street to Sweet Rolls for dessert. I have been dying to try the rolled ice cream and it didn't disappoint! We split the cookie monster.   We walked around downtown Hammond for a little while, checking out some of the shops. Hammond is such a cute town, I just love it!   Our next stop was Slidell for the Honey Island Swamp Tour. I took the tour a few years ago, but this was Walt's first time and he loved it! I enjoyed it as well, but it was SO hot on t...

I haven't been on here much, but I wanted to catch up a little and share a fun day trip I had. Last weekend my friend Bailey and I took a day trip to Slidell and New Orleans, La. I wanted to stay in NOLA sooo bad, I just love that city! Saturday morning we got up early and headed to Slidell for a swamp tour! This should be on your bucket list if you are passing through Louisiana or if your close by and want something fun to take your kids to!   fish camps are all along the river and they aren't accessible by vehicle, only by boat! when we turned the boat off alligators would surround the boat waiting on a marshmallow or hotdog.   we saw several wild hogs and raccoons that love to eat marshmallows as well!   The tour last 1 1/2 hours and after that we headed to New Orleans for lunch. We ate at Acme Oyster House on Bourbon Street. I had chargrilled oysters, half a shrimp poboy, and oyster rockefeller soup (ahhmazing). After lunch we walk...