Our last entry left off right before San Antonio. We had a great time visiting the Alamo and cruising along the famous San Antonio River Walk. Kelly treated us to a fancy dinner at a nice little sushi place and we enjoyed a lovely evening stroll through HemisFair Park where the city was putting on the first of many movies in the park. The greatest part about San Antonio can be summed up in this picture:
It may not look like much to you. But it was one of the most hilarious moments on our entire trip for me. It started innocently enough. A couple of cute little ducks started swimming near Kelly begging for some of her ice cream, of course she couldn't say no. Ignoring the sign that said "PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE DUCKS," she started tossing a few waffle cone crumbs toward the ducks. A couple more ducks joined in for a treat and then a few more. Eventually we were surrounded by ducks and when we looked down into the water noticed tons of huge fish who were also trying to get some ice cream in their bellies! The funny part happened when Kelly got a little too comfortable with her new duck pals and tried to feed one hand to beak. Inevitably, the duck snapped for the piece of cone and got the whole finger! OUCH! Don't worry, it's worth a good laugh because Kelly says it was more shocking than painful.
After San Antonio, we headed to a suburb of Houston to visit Kelly's aunt. We had a short but very sweet visit and were introduced for the first time to margaritas...tasty annnnd intoxicating. The next day was spent in a cute old town shopping district. We wandered in and out of shops and around lunch time searched for an egg salad sandwich. After sitting down in one restaurant, ordering a round of waters, and asking the waitress if they had egg salad, we decided to awkwardly ditch the place after finding out that chicken and tuna were our only options! Eventually, we found our egg salad sandwich in a tea-party style restaurant and spent the rest of the afternoon relaxing and hanging out. We were very grateful for the time spent with family and sad that the visit had to be cut so short, but started off for New Orleans the very next day. 
I'd have to say that New Orleans was my favorite part of the trip. We had been looking forward to this stop for months after finding out that we could time our trip just perfectly to be in the city for their annual Cajun-Zydeco festival. We spent Saturday in the French Quarter where zydeco music filled the streets along with the seriously delicious smell of creole spices and crawfish (gross, I know...but they smell SO GOOD). We sat out a brief afternoon thunderstorm reading our books (we're both reading The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin, very good!) in a coffee shop and then explored more of the festival area. Overall, a wonderful time -- we will definitely be visiting again!
After New Orleans, we started our power drive up to Wisconsin. We drove up the entire state of Mississippi in an evening and landed 20 minutes south of Memphis when we decided to pull into a motel around 11:30pm. We spent the following morning walking in Memphis and ate breakfast at a place called Cockadoos. Now, I have to warn you. If you ever go to Memphis and get a craving for sweet potato hash browns, DON'T go to Cockadoos. I was so sad. We went their specifically for this dish and ended up eating two bites and nearly spitting them back out! Very disappointing. (They did, however, have the most amazing thing: French toast sandwich filled with peanut butter and bananas topped with whipped cream and blueberries..umm YUM).
We then drove for 11 hours through five states. It went very quickly and we got to see the St. Louis arch from a distance. Two or three days earlier than planned, we made it back to Madison and are now catching up on laundry, jobs, and life. Oh, and I got a new bike yesterday. It's purple and shiny and I love it.
Thanks for following us on our journey! :)
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