Things to Do when it's 100 degrees outside

On the bike trail. One of my greatest assets is my ability to get scraped up or bruised wherever I go

Hipsters on the patio at Bacchanal

Well, you could:
1. Stay indoors.
2. Do all this:
A. Go to Bacchanal in the Bywater and sweat so much that you butt sticks to the plastic lawn chairs, BUT you get to listen to fun music, choose your own cheeses for a custom made cheese plate, and drink lots of wine by the bottle that you purchased inside at the wine store. Add in the fact that you are in a very "hip" courtyard with a lot of "hip" people and some restaurant or other is also offering their wares from a corner booth and you've got a fun evening. Also, scenes from Treme may or may not have been filmed back there . . .
B. Head across that giant lake to Mandeville and visit the Abita Brewery. It's air conditioned so you really do escape the heat for a little while. You have to do this! I am taking everyone who comes to visit me here. You line up, they give you shoe booties and then you go inside and help yourself to as much Abita beer as you can shove down your throat while they show you videos of what makes Abita eco-friendly, tasty and pretty much the best beer company ever. Then they take you on a ten-minute tour of the brewing facility. Then, MORE BEER while you get suckered into buying official Abita chotskies and memorabilia, like our nifty new beer coozies and crawfish platters. And magnet. Whatever, you are half-lit by the time you leave that brewery and best of all, it's free!
C. After you're all liquored up, ride the St. Tammany Trace, a 31-mile rail-to-trail conversion. It's paved and straight and you get to see into people's backyards. I also saw a snake.
D. Cheese tasting! Cheese doesn't melt when you're inside a frigid restaurant and cheese shop. We did one at the St. James Cheese Company and for every good-size sliver we tried, we got to try a good-size glass of wine or beer, called a "pairing."
Call it what you want, but it makes listening to cheese dorks (I mean that in a nice way) reminisce about trips to Italy and Spain while chewing on weird crunchy rinds totally worth it. We did learn a lot about goat cheese. It was fun, even though you have to sit with strangers because the events fill up so fast. But it's good to break out of your comfort zone sometimes. Especially over six pours of alcohol and cheese. It was only $20!