#onetimeinnola

Today was a fun day.

@love2bfit, this should be a fun weekend.

A Quick bite at Still Perkin' Coffee Shop before a meeting with Sidney & Kalila. #neworleans #followyournola #onetimeinnola #louisianatravel #louisianatourism #bayouambassador (at Still Perkin' Coffee Shop) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeBQypVrMVQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

So true! #neworleans #followyournola #onetimeinnola #louisianatravel #louisianatourism #bayouambassador (at New Orleans, Louisiana) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdT_a1FLfLc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Just last weekend we hosted French Quarter Festival to record breaking numbers and we did it almost flawlessly! The pictures here show the crowds! Now, without even a weekend in between we are now hosting 2 weekends of Jazzfest! With Stevie Nicks, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lionel Ritchie, and so many more musical acts, it is sure to please the audience! It’s been 3 years, thanks to Covid, but here we are! Can we pull this off without incident too? I say we can! With so much negativity in the world, let’s fest and have some fun for a while. “The two-weekend production draws tens of thousands to the city's Fair Grounds Race Course, where as many as 80 musical acts perform daily on more than a dozen stages, complemented by art and craft exhibits and an array of booths featuring foods from Louisiana and beyond.” #jazzfest #knowyournola #onetimeinnola #neworleanslife #neworleans #music #neworleanstourism #festival #festivalseason (at New Orleans, Louisiana) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc75MySLNXT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Keep eating your wheaties! These are just the highlights! 04/29/2022 - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 05/20/2022 - Bayou Boogaloo 05/27/2022 - Greek Fest 06/07/2022 - New Orleans Wine and Food Experience 07/01/2022 - ESSENCE Festival of Culture® Presented By Coca-Cola® 07/09/2022 - Running of the Bulls 07/25/2022 - Tales of the Cocktail 08/01/2022 - COOLinary New Orleans 08/06/2022 - Satchmo SummerFest 08/06/2022 - White Linen Night 08/13/2022 - Red Dress Run 09/01/2022 - Southern Decadence 09/04/2022 - Louisiana Kick-Off: Florida State Seminoles vs. LSU Tigers 10/07/2022 - Gentilly Fest 10/12/2022 - The NOLA Caribbean Experience 10/29/2022 - Voodoo Music + Arts Experience 10/31/2022 - Halloween 11/04/2022 - Bayou Bacchanal 12/24/2022 - Christmas Eve Bonfires on the Levee 12/31/2022 - Allstate Sugar Bowl #onetimeinnola #neworleans #neworleanslife (at New Orleans, Louisiana) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc29gUVrv1U/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Tell me you’re from New Orleans without telling me you’re from New Orleans. Lol Just a small fraction of the wigs I’ve accumulated. You should see the costumes and period pieces lol. Life in New Orleans is quite literally a fairytale. Highly recommend. #onetimeinnola #costume #wiglife #dressup #neworleans #louisianalife #lifestyle #party #lifeismagical (at New Orleans, Louisiana) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbHXZZyOZ5e/?utm_medium=tumblr

Yesterday was one of the best experiences of my entire life! Our Krewe of Iris parade was not only a success, not only fun, not only beautiful, not only packed with revelers, but phenomenal and otherworldly! The people!!! There were so many people!!! About 95% of them would yell “thank you, Happy Mardi Gras” when you would throw to them! I was so shocked to hear it over and over that I started to cry. The people were so grateful, so kind, so incredible. The pictures I took along the parade route show the massive crowds as we traveled. I’m in awe! Total awe! I came off the float with one signature throw to give to a person I missed in the crowd and that’s it! I didn’t run out of throws until the parade ended and I didn’t end up with leftovers. That’s perfection! The weather was perfect. The floats were perfect. We started on time. My float sisters were and are amazing! Better than I could have ever dreamed to ask for. I can’t explain with correct vernacular how I feel or how this experience was to people who haven’t done it. It simply would not be comprehensible. If I were a millionaire I would pay for everyone I know to be able to do this at least once. I truly wish everyone could experience this. (Hence the reason I could never be or stay a millionaire) I love life. Everyone knows this. But getting older, there are fleeting times in my life when I have silently questioned if the best of life is behind me or if I’m too old to do this or that. New Orleans, as she always does, proved to me that you’re never too old for finding your joy and the best of life is sometimes right in front of you no matter your age or situation! My heart is full! #hailiris #findingjoy #mardigras2022 #onetimeinnola (at Krewe of Iris) https://www.instagram.com/p/CafA3hfrcSp/?utm_medium=tumblr