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I was back in New Orleans last week for the second time in a month.  But this time Rachel traveled with me and we stayed an extra day as the trip coincided with The New Orleans Jazz Fest.  This was our 3rd Jazz Fest and it holds a special place as it was our first vacation when we started dating.

Two highlights from the visit:

1.  Dinner with my work colleagues at Arnauds with Ed Helms sitting next to us.  Just sitting next to Ed Helms (who plays our favorite Cornell alumni character as Andy Bernard in The Office) wasn’t the highlight.  The highlight was watching my wife go giddy star-stuck when he visited our table (she has a bit of a crush on ‘Andy Bernard’).  But when one of my co-workers offered to take their picture she got shy and said no.   After he left the restaurant and she was kicking herself for missing the photo-op, we discovered that he left his hat at the table.   So we didn’t get a picture of Rachel with Ed Helms, but we did get about 6 pictures of Rachel in Ed Helms’ hat.

2.  The performance from Elvis Perkins in Dearland at Jazz Fest.  We saw Perkins perform when we lived in Brooklyn, but there was something about the atmosphere of Jazz Fest and their energy on stage that made this an incredible show.  Here’s a video from their set, and that’s Maggie Gyllenhaal in the floppy hat standing in front of us.  (Yes, Rachel went speechless around her too).

Video is from iPhone, so turn your speakers down because the sound quality is a little rough: