Our good friend Ellen came into town last weekend.  We ate lots of delicious food and enjoyed our beautiful spring weather to the fullest.  We wandered our neighborhood porch sale event on Saturday morning and found all sorts of wonderful deals for our new house.  Cypress columns that I went and bartered for and got quite the deal on, a beautifully redone 1920's pedestal sink for one of the guest bathrooms, a set of shutters, and a gorgeous window (cypress frame, glass, and all) for free.
We spent two evenings on our "new" front porch with neighbors and other friends eating wedding cake (sometimes our neighbor has a "disaster" when making her cakes and we all reap the benefits) and fried chicken and drinking wine.
On Saturday we went to the NCAA Elite Eight Basketball game here in town and watched the Butler Bulldogs beat Florida State.

For Ellen's last evening in town we went down to the Marigny and enjoyed dinner at one of our favorite restaurants, Adolfo's, before ending the evening at our favorite little Jazz spot, The Spotted Cat.  It was the perfect kick-off for this break!