New Orleans Bucket Checklist

A New Orleans checklist of things to experience while you live in New Orleans.

• Buy a muffuletta from Central Grocery and eat it on a bench in Jackson Square
• Attend a Super Bowl in New Orleans
• Check out a rehearsal of the Shades of Praise gospel choir at Loyola University on a Thursday night
• Go sailing on Lake Pontchartrain
• Eat dinner at the Hare Krishna Temple
• Host a crawfish boil
• Go to Jazz Fest on a Local Thursday
• Go to a New Orleans Pelicans game
• Go to a New Orleans Saints game
• Flyboard over Lake Pontchartrain
• Enter the Stella!/Stanley! shouting contest
• Have a Friday lunch at Galatoire’s
• Kayak on Bayou St. John
• Get a horrible tan at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
• Walk the trail at Jean Lafitte National Historic Park and Preserve
• Make your karaoke debut at Kajun’s Pub
• Take in one of the jazz Masses at a Catholic church
• Pay a crime camera ticket for rolling a stop sign
• Stay for the whole Rebirth Brass Band show at the Maple Leaf Bar on a Tuesday night
• Run in the Crescent City Classic
• March in a Sunday second line parade
• Ride a streetcar from the end of the Uptown line to Canal Street, transfer onto a Canal Street streetcar and ride to the end of that line
• Dine on a muffuletta and Pimm’s Cup in the courtyard of Napoleon House
• Ride in a Mardi Gras parade or march in one
• Ride the ferry to Algiers
• Surf Lake Pontchartrain (it has been done)
• Shoot a Super 8mm film for the Timecode:NOLA indie film fest
• Spend a night on Bourbon Street
• Wake up super-early and go to the Vietnamese farmers market in New Orleans East
• Get an autograph from Drew Brees
• Sneak into the old Six Flags New Orleans site to take pictures
• Stay up all night at Snake ’N’ Jakes Christmas Club Lounge
• Tour New Orleans in a plane/helicopter
• Watch the sun rise from the Mississippi River’s down-town levee
• Wear a ridiculously revealing costume to the MOMs ball