Day #1 with Nate: Soul Food, Cold Stone, & Bourbon Str.

A good and close friend of mine that I knew since 2002 and have not seen since 2003/2004, I think had come into town for work for three days and on today, I made us some Jambalaya and Fried Chicken and he LOVED it! Nate does not get Southern Cooking in Salt Lake City so he thought my cooking was great-as does anyone who tastes it and is surprised that I can get down in a kitchen! Lol! Afterwads, he treated us both to some desert at Cold Stone. I had never in my life been there, but I knew one existed. I had a Betsy Crocker flavor with M&M's in mine and he had some sort of pie/cake thing! After we finished up our desert, I suggested that he hit Downtown New Orleans and The French Quarter. Nate wanted to go to the French Market, but it was closed and so was the Riverwalk. I suggested a ferry ride, but it was 7:50 in the evening and we did not want to risk getting on the ferry to Algiers and not being able to come back over to New Orleans so we did NOT do that. We sat by the fountain and talked about the good old days and then we walked down the infamous Canal Street and then we went on the Bad Bourbon Street and Nate did very very well. They had all types of people suggesting that we go into a club that has tits, drunk people all outside of clubs and bars. Any and every time I go on Bourbon Str. I feel the same way: scared and sick to my damn stomach. Th people and the things that you see on that ON particular street sickens me and I LOATHE going there, but no matter who comes into town and they have HEARD of Bourbon Street, they want to go there. I give the same speech at the start of the street asking them if they are certain they want to make the journey-then when they see what I told them they will see, they want to turn back around! After the walk halfway down Bourbon Street-we headed back to the car and this couple stopped us and begged us to give them some money for a hotel and this long story that I did not care to even listen to, to be honest with you-that is another reason I hate down in that area, if you are in a dark alley and not where a lot of people are (not saying innocent people will help u if attacked), you can find yourself in a violent predicament and I do not go into areas and situations like that because these people are drunk and you have no idea what they are capable of doing! All in all, today was great because I got to see a longtime friend and we did not get injured or attacked...