Eating fried chicken at the famous Treme restaurant “Dooky Chase” has been on Banjo Man’s bucket list for a very long time.

Or so he says. It was news to me when he declared he needed to eat there this week.

We both ordered gumbo. I had the stuffed shrimp with a side of green beans. Banjo Man wolfed down red beans and rice and, of course, fried chicken. We shared a helping of peach cobbler and declared that we wouldn’t be able to eat another thing for the rest of the day.

It was 12:30.

Here’s the hotel courtyard.

We locked ourselves out of our room yesterday morning. Catch 22: we needed an I.D. to get a new key and naturally those were locked inside the room.

The maintenance man fixed the faulty door knob while we were at a cooking class.

I learned some new tips for making gumbo and Banjo Man took notes on the creation of his favorite, red beans and rice.

Then we took a nap.

Aren’t vacations wonderful?