WHO DAT COUNTRY

             NEW ORLEANS WAS THE

We arrived in New Orleans and hit Bourbon Street within an hour of checking into our hotel. Talk about visual overload ~ Bourbon St. ~ the place to be in New Orleans. The balconies are the first thing we noticed. My sister and I have pictures of so many balconies ~

the pictures really do not do them justice.

The balconies are everywhere you looked and they are beautiful!    ENJOY

Besides balconies there were funky stores to browse through, Tarot Readers to visit, and characters on the street. Bands played jazz, people transformed themselves into street statues, clowns and dancers.  We ate local food at a retaurant on Bourbon Street, and listened to bands in several locations. 

The great street cars still travel through several streets in New Orleans.  Desire Street is found in New Orleans ~ thus the movie ~

A STREET CAR NAMED DESIRE

The best part of the street cars is that they travel from one end of the line to the other. There is no place to turn around - so they flip the seats around, the driver goes to the other end of the car and presto===it goes in the other direction! We had a great tour guide on the Katrina/City Tour we took. He filled us in on little 'secrets' of the city.

JAZZ FUNERAL STORE ~ PEOPLE ARE JUST DYING TO GET IN  

   HIPPIE GYPSY STORE ~ WHERE THE PAST COMES TO LIFE                       

The two guys above played guitar and the drum

(a cardboard box.)

They didn't know the words to a single song we asked for, but they were hauling in the money!

Jambalaya is what Joe chose. He didn't care for it much. He expected various meats in the dish and it turned out to be mostly RICE! His dish was pretty, but pretty doesn't make it for a hungry man!

I chose red beans with rice, sausage and chicken. I gave the sausage and chicken to Joe.

The beans and rice were excellent!

So many street preformers were out, day and night. Some sang, some played instruments, some did tricks, some were silver or gold statues - standing still - in strange positions for a long time.

The paint that some of them used really bothered me. I'm not sure what kind of paint it was, but it just seems that painting your face and hands everyday is not a healthy way to go.

The best was the man dressed in the white suit walking the dog. The dog was just a toy, but looked real. He stood like that for a very long time.

Cars actually slowed down for him, and he was going nowhere!

This guy must've been living on the same jambalaya that Joe ordered. Not enough food for any man!

Nancy and Geri enjoying themselves on Bourbon Street ~~~  New Orleans, LA