Wednesday, January 14th, 2026

Amanda woke before I did (no alarms!) and had coffee. We walked over to the Police station next to which is a Café Beignet location, of which our tour guide on Sunday had two things to say: 1) a donut shop next to a police station is a can’t-fail business model, and 2) their beignet MIGHT just be better than Café Du Monde. (He admitted that the latter is basically heresy and implored us not to tell anyone else that he said so. 🙂 ) We ordered an order of beignet. They were bigger and…”fluffier” (less dense) than the ones at Du Monde. But I won’t pick favorites!

We walked back to Quarter House’s where Amanda did a load of laundry. Then it was back to the riverfront for a late lunch cruise on the City of New Orleans paddle wheel cruise boat. It was a narrated, leisurely cruise downriver on the Mississippi about 7 miles before turning and heading back upriver. The cruise started boarding at 2:00 and we had lunch first thing. Scheduled to return to dock at 4:30, I called in to a meeting of the Library Board (Keeseville) at 4:00 for the remainder of the cruise and our walk back to our room.

Amanda wanted a nap before a group call she has on Wednesdays, and so I went back to Caesars and too-quickly bounced out of a poker tournament. Somewhat disillusioned, I returned to the Quarter House and had a bacon brie burger in the Backspace Bar and just hung out by the fireplace before heading upstairs for the night.

Step count: 7,726, or 3.02 miles

Lunchroom on the steamboat City Of New Orleans

Amanda enjoying the view