You Have a Friend in New Orleans

When do you wish the wind to stop blowing?  In New Orleans in summer, let it blow.  Let it blow.  Let it blow!  Every breeze is welcome.  You have a friend in New Orleans.  I know.  I live here.

Breakfast is served.

Everyone is happy to be in New Orleans.  If you are bored here, you've got a whopper of a hole in your imagination.  Everyone is happy in New Orleans.  Everyone has a friend in New Orleans.  Even the ducks:

Quack. Quack.  Quack!  Quack.

19 million tourists visited New Orleans last year.  That's more than the number of people who visited Hawaii.  If the great State of Louisiana can be compared to the great State of Hawaii, then New Orleans is Wikiki.  Fun and frolic.

In Hawaii they have "aloha culture."  In New Orleans, we have "laginiappe culture."  What's lagniappe?  It's a little something extra, a small top-off surprise after you've paid for what you bought.  Lagniappe is more.  Welcome to the New Orleans state of mind.

You a friend in New Orleans.  I know two of them that live on Esplanade Avenue.  You'll make more friends when you are here.  There are no strangers in New Orleans.  Everyone is a friend you haven't yet met.  

We look forward to meeting you.

Have a great New Orleans day, today!
-La Belle Esplanade

You have two friends on Esplanade Avenue.  The best New Orleans memories are made on our street.