katiesfootprints: New Orleans!

New favourite city = New Orleans or Nawlins even in spite of the humidity and the regular occurrence of hand grenade induced hangovers. We arrived on Tuesday evening and quickly increased the wolfpack again, spent the night chatting in the courtyard with lukewarm beers (can’t keep anything cold in 40 degree weather) and dodging our first thunderstorm. The rest of the week saw us trekking into Bourbon St each day where we would be armed with a new bucket list of food to try; we ticked a lot of boxes this week - Gumbo, Jumbalaya, Crawfish, Po Boys, Alligator, Muffaletta, Praline, and eating things like pork chop and smothered cabbage at your typical hole in the wall. Daiquiri’s were high on the list of things to try as well as Hand Grenade’s – sneaky big alcoholic slushy’s. We took a ferry ride over the Mississippi, shopped at the vintage stores on Magazine St where I could have bought a lot of things but had to be content with my new old pink aviators, went on a haunted tour of the city, explored the French Markets for Voodoo Dolls and the scoped out the rest of the French Quarter, frequented Frenchman Street for Jazz bands, and made the oldest pub (1722) in America our local after spending each afternoon lazing in and around the pool. Aimee and I wandered around the old cemeteries where all the graves are now above ground due to the high water table around New Orleans – I think they found this out the hard way! Scotty and I managed to sneak in one 20 minute run before we nearly carked it from heat exhaustion (nothing to do with the fitness levels). Up to DC now where hopefully the weather is a little bit more bearable, we did just get off the train briefly in Atlanta though and things weren’t looking too promising, oh well at least the tan is getting worked on! J

Spanish Themed Houses in the French Quarter