We started the trip off with an evening stroll down the streets of the French Quarter. We walked down the famous Bourbon Street not realizing it was porn central!!
We just happened to run into the parade that night. I guess they have small parades almost every night in the French Quarter with a band and all kinds of crazy costumes and anyone who wants to join in and walk along.
Of course there were jazz type bands playing at all times in the closed off streets of the French Quarter.
We found some beautiful parks and cool architecture on our walking adventures.
There were some beautiful and very large homes in the Garden District. It was fun to just walk around and look at the cool houses.
We found a graveyard while walking around and decided to wander around in it for awhile. It was pretty interesting to see. There are all kinds of tombs everywhere. I'm not sure why most are tombs instead of buried with headstones - maybe something to do with the soil, but it makes it kind of creepy.
I heard a noise and Paul thought it was a baby crying, but the more we heard it, you could tell it was a kitty. We finally saw it and it was very friendly. Not a scary graveyard cat. It followed up around for awhile wanting to be pet. But finally wandered off.
There were just aisles and aisles of tombs.
The kitty just kept turning up everywhere we went.
It was like walking through a graveyard in a movie. I kept expecting to see some cool chase scene going on.
In the graveyard, there was this tomb for the "Society for theRelief of Destitute Orphan Boys". The date on it is 1894, but people still leave little toys and things at it's base.
The VooDoo Museum wasn't much to see. It really didn't provide much information, but it did have some pretty creepy things displayed.
These are some of the examples of "real" voodoo dolls. Pretty scary.
This is a cool house we found while walking around that was being restored for historical purposes. It was empty inside, but it was still really cool. One of the best finds on our trip.
This house/apartment sits directly behind the house we were touring and was the kitchen area and probably servants quarters. There is a little courtyard between the two houses. From the street you never even know this is back there.
This is another view of the house behind the main house with the courtyard between the two.
We brought Claire back a beautiful butterfly mask made of feathers.
She is ready for Mardi Gras. (Let's hope not!)
We just happened to run into the parade that night. I guess they have small parades almost every night in the French Quarter with a band and all kinds of crazy costumes and anyone who wants to join in and walk along.
Of course there were jazz type bands playing at all times in the closed off streets of the French Quarter.
We found some beautiful parks and cool architecture on our walking adventures.
There were some beautiful and very large homes in the Garden District. It was fun to just walk around and look at the cool houses.
We found a graveyard while walking around and decided to wander around in it for awhile. It was pretty interesting to see. There are all kinds of tombs everywhere. I'm not sure why most are tombs instead of buried with headstones - maybe something to do with the soil, but it makes it kind of creepy.
I heard a noise and Paul thought it was a baby crying, but the more we heard it, you could tell it was a kitty. We finally saw it and it was very friendly. Not a scary graveyard cat. It followed up around for awhile wanting to be pet. But finally wandered off.
There were just aisles and aisles of tombs.
The kitty just kept turning up everywhere we went.
It was like walking through a graveyard in a movie. I kept expecting to see some cool chase scene going on.
In the graveyard, there was this tomb for the "Society for theRelief of Destitute Orphan Boys". The date on it is 1894, but people still leave little toys and things at it's base.
The VooDoo Museum wasn't much to see. It really didn't provide much information, but it did have some pretty creepy things displayed.
These are some of the examples of "real" voodoo dolls. Pretty scary.
This is a cool house we found while walking around that was being restored for historical purposes. It was empty inside, but it was still really cool. One of the best finds on our trip.
This house/apartment sits directly behind the house we were touring and was the kitchen area and probably servants quarters. There is a little courtyard between the two houses. From the street you never even know this is back there.
This is another view of the house behind the main house with the courtyard between the two.
We brought Claire back a beautiful butterfly mask made of feathers.
She is ready for Mardi Gras. (Let's hope not!)
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