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I didn't see much of the city this time. It was a fancy wedding, and there were buses to
take us from the hotel in the French Quarter, where the rehearsal dinner took place on
Friday night, to the church in the Garden District for the ceremony on Saturday after-
noon, and back to the Quarter for the wedding feast at Antoine's. For a number of the
guests, I was a secondary feature, like the newsreel before the movie, nowhere near as
interesting as the young couple, of course, but I was making my debut as Jan's boyfriend
in front of many of her oldest friends and I had my teeth and hooves examined pretty
thoroughly. I didn't mind it; I could tell I was being approved of, mainly because when
I was watching Jan and watching her friends watch her, and it was shamelessly evident
that she was blissful.
We didn't spend a great deal of time alone, but we had a chance to walk around on
Saturday morning; I wanted beignets and chicory coffee at Café Du Monde, but the place
was overflowing with tourists so we had breakfast at Restaurant Stanley, a friendly bis-
tro nearby on Jackson Square, and afterward bought baseball caps from a street vendor
