Am writing this from office, just came out of another meeting.
Mardi Gras in New Orleans was a great experience. I have the photos on my laptop, would lash them up on the web asap, censored of course ! Rented out a Toyota Echo (without power steering) form Enterprise and drove down with Alan, Saurabh and Jay. It was a good 9 hr drive, reached at 4:00am, checked into the hotel (Hilton) by the airport and headed down to Bourboun Street. Wasn't surprised to see so many people even at that hour, had a hurricane followed by a few beers in Razoo's. Went on to have biegnets and coffee in Cafe Du Monde.
Saturday night was really good fun, we left the hotel around 4, but, it took us about an hour to reach downtown due to heavy traffic. Parking was a bitch as expected, found a space behind an abandoned vintage car in a really dodgy area, across the road from gay pubs (which I didn't realize until early morning when we came to get the car to drive back). The place was PACKED, chances of a stampede in front of playboy bar - VERY HIGH.
A really good first time experience, don't know if I'd like to go back to the mahyem.
Anyways, am back to the grind and have to finish up this XSL work.