If you're in trouble, If no one else can help, and If you can find them...

Joey and I hopped the St Charles streetcar into the Quarter this morning, where we planned to get some breakfast, explore the streets, and settle into a bar for the afternoon.  A few minutes into our first chess game at Cafe Beignet, however, the skies opened up.  We tried to wait out the downpour with a couple more games of chess (i'm making a comeback with 4 consecutive wins but I'm still down an embarrassing 16 games to 6) before we decided to ditch the Quarter for the movie theater.

We saw the A-Team which, but for the fact that i can't get the theme song out of my head, was exactly what it was intended to be: Good fun and lots of things blowing up.  After the movie we grabbed a quick bite and headed back to the house for some downtime before the evening festivities.

Those festivities are still forming up but we're thinking of  either checking to see if Mother In Laws is open (apparently it's only open sporadically) or heading to Bullets to see Kermit Ruffins. Tomorrow we'll  get up early and walk to Parasols to watch the US/Algeria and England/Slovenia world cup matches.  Tomorrow night (assuming we recuperate from the morning) we'll most likely go to the Candlelight lounge in Treme to catch the Treme Brass Band.

Yesterday, we explored the lower garden district, had some awesome po' boys at Zara's grocery, and then bellied up to the bar at Half Moon and watched the Spain/Honduras soccer game.  Last night we ate a quick dinner at the Avenue Pub after an early evening nap before heading back to the house for a few games of chess.