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Hey y’all. It's official.

You are hereby mandated to love the city of New Orleans.

And in order to truly love it, you’re going to have to LoveOurCity like we do.

Now we know everyone has their own tastes and enjoys their own flavor. But we’re positive that you will never really know how bland your Zapp’s Original Flavor Potato Chips are until you experience the Spicy Cajun Crawtator Flavor. It didn’t happen overnight, but even our girl from Nebraska has learned that her precious sweet corn and potatoes taste better when they taste like crawfish.

So you’re wondering why you should follow our lead? How could we possibly be experts on everything NOLA? Well lord knows we aren’t perfect but we employ three foolproof tactics on a daily basis that are aiding us in our quest:

(1)    We actually take the lead.

(2)    We've yet to go one day of our lives without being in love. We are
   IN LOVE with life.

(3)    We don't settle for happiness. We demand euphoria.

Ask our friends, ask our family, ask someone we have met once or twice, we’re perfectionists when it comes to living life. If you can expect the best, you can plan for the best, and thus you can live only for the best. I guess some people are OK with settling for less, but not us, and definitely not in New Orleans.

Ever filled up your 400 text inbox/outbox over the course of a day at work? A LOC guide has. Don't judge. If you were returning home for Labor Day weekend in Nebraska during the first Husker football game, two Husker women's soccer games, a sorority bridal shower and a personal reunion with every friend you’ve ever had, she hopes you would do the same. (Ok you can judge a little, but her Samsung, full-press-button, flips-both-ways-keyboard was born a planner, like her.)

Ever shown up an hour early at a packed bar for a college football watch party that you organized, by yourself, to save 12 chairs? A LOC guide has. Ever accomplished that feat to then have 10 extra people show up and take it upon yourself to scour the bar for 10 more chairs, and awkwardly arrange sitting partners? A LOC guide has. And then when the one last forsaken fan finally shows up you willingly give up your chair and stand for the entire the game? A LOC guide has.

Ever been at a birthday party for one of your friends and had to steal back the first piece of cake from a rogue uncle you’ve never met, mid-fork-to-mouth, to return it to the birthday girl so that she could rightfully enjoy the first piece of her birthday cake? Ok, so we’re a little embarrassed about that one, but yes, a LOC guide has.

It's called being a good host and it's called party planning. Not everyone can do it, not everyone wants to do it, and practically everyone that is involved in the process of us doing it will think we take things a bit overboard. It's true, we do and you’re welcome in advance.

So go ahead and peruse through this blog to find the ins and outs on how to make your New Orleanian adventure as Big and Easy as possible. New Orleans was given the moniker “The Big Easy” for a reason and thus should be experienced as so. (Did we mention it should be BIG? Literally go big or stay home. Don’t come in town just to quit our second line half way to the after party.) And remember, “When in New Orleans do as the New Orleanians do” aka: enjoy a cocktail at any chosen hour of the day, deem the smallest reason imaginable as a perfectly adequate reason to celebrate and, by God, observe the beauty of diversity in between every single blink of your eyes.

If we couldn’t make it any clearer, we LoveOurCity™: The City of New Orleans, Louisiana. Come and join us in our love affair.

“Laissez les bon temps rouler”

          - The LOC Team