Ok, so here’s a story…we’ve been here a week and a half, and we just couldn’t resist it anymore. The beignet’s were beckoning. So we make our way downtown tonight. Aside from the fact that it was crawling with groups of teenagers wearing matching Christian t-shirts who I assume are here on mission trips, it wasn’t too crowded. Or at least it didn’t seem that way till we started looking for a place to park. Jake finally found a place on a side street just a block down from the Cafe Du Monde. There were a couple of obscure signs hanging from posts that looked like they had been run into more than once…something about street cleaning and freight loading? Anyway, they didn’t seem to be clearly marking any particular place, so they made me a little nervous about whether or not we should be parking there. But we did. Anyway, we make our way to the Cafe, enjoy our beignets, and then due to the fact that it looked like we were about to have a typhoon, we headed back to the car. I kept thinking, “gosh, I hope they didn’t tow the car.” They didn’t. But somebody did decide to park a massive SUV in the space in front of us that probably wasn’t even big enough for a yugo. With a little help from Jake out on the sidewalk I was able to wiggle the car out, and we headed home. Somewhere along Gentilly Blvd. I noticed something flapping under the windshield wiper. And unfortunately it was not one of those flyers for the local furniture store that’s going out of business…again. Yep, we got a parking ticket. $20.00 that I would really rather not pay to the City of New Orleans. I’ve never gotten a parking ticket before. I don’t think they do that in Flomaton. *sigh* At least we can pay it online. So there you go. I just hope that SUV got a ticket, too…