Day xx, New Orlean's - Hurricane Adam

New Orlean's is the party city of the tour. It's the place where if something's going to happen, then it's going to happen here. The group had just finished dinner and I'd stashed my brand new Bubba Gump golf ball that I'd won in dinner, into my pocket and started the journey to Bourbon St. After watching many Girls Gone Wild vidoes and the odd bit of Bourbon St coverage from TV and movies, it was a lot different than I expected. It was different in the sense that it was grittier, smellier and smaller than the party street of a city, but it does have it's charm as you walk through and see the Cat's meow and the legs swinging in and out of the window (If you go there you'll know exactly what I mean). Y'vonne bought me a Margartia which was the first of many for the night. She refused to pay the gratuity on our joint dinner bill, and she "didn't think the service warranted a tip" but I explained to her "listen, we have a joint bill and they make you pay gratuity whether you think the service is good or not, it's just the way it is, I don't wanna argue cos I wanna go party, so you'll fuckin pay it or buy me a drink or something to compensate me for paying part of your bill". She did the right thing in the end and we got on and had a great night. Asuka was a lovely Japanese girl who was travelling with me and she was enjoying the margarita's too, I remember she was bringing me a lot of my drinks that night. So we left the place we were at, which I never even got the name of and went to a new joint called Kazoo. Kazoo was bangin to say the least. This place was goin off with the latest from Lloyd Bank$, 50 cent, even the classics like Ghetto Superstar and Notorious BIG, we were all trully in our element. Now New Orlean's is a fan of 2 for 1 deals for drinks and I even heard of places doing 3 for 1, thank god I missed out on that otherwise I might not've made it back! But the killer for the night was still to come. The Hurricane! This drink was insane, it was made up of red cordial, vodka, ice, malibu white rum and I don't know waht else, but this drink was toxic! So we're all dancing around like fools, but fools who were having a good time, and I must've been on my 6th Hurrican at this point. I was remarking how "I can just keep drinking these and I don't even feel drunk, seriously!!!" Now I realise NOW that even when I was saying that, as a sober person, I would've come across smashed! Now I hadn't even started behaving drunk yet! As with alcohol, things can get messy and intimate quickly and it turned out to be quite the night for peple getting together. I had Trudy give me a big SLOPPY kiss and that was suprising and also the fuel for a lot of gossip and conversation over the next day or two. But, without doubt, the cream of the gossip crop was the incident of Laura and Paul's kiss in the club was fuel for conversation for the next week. Of course afterwards Laura hardly even talked to Paul and did the "Gone cold" act, denied all possibility of her liking the act and even termed it as a regret. But as I with most women, it's actions not words that counts, and Laura's drunken actions spoke the loudest rather than her sober claim that it was just a drunken fumble and "He came onto me" what was she so scared of? She's no oil painting and I saw no guys beating her room door down, so I think any action was good action for her. At the end of the day, Paul seemed very confused by her reaction to it afterwards, but my advice was to not sweat it cos if she likes him she'll come around, but that wasn't likely with all the other girls in her ear telling her all sorts of things I could only imagine to be negative publicity for Paul. It seemed the advice of others got to her over her own desires as her body language to him (that I noticed) gave hime the green light and didn't reflect her verbalisations to him. Remember guys, don't waste your time trying to rationalise a womans actions, they're illogical creatures that count backwards and see everything in grey.

More New Orlean's travel stories

• Day xx, New Orlean's - Hurricane Adam
• Day xx, New Orlean's - Huka Bar
• Day xx, New Orlean's - Dinner on the Mississippi