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New Orleans the Summer Tour – Day 4

It’s time to go to war; The National World War II museum that is.

After getting your tickets, you first are given your dog tags, board a train and you are off to the war.

During the short video on the train you register and are given a soldier or civilian to follow. I was given Bob Hope.

Quick tip: If you want to pick your service member, skip the train registration and head up stairs. There you have the choice to select civilian or military and the person.

I signed up for the 10AM, 2 hour highlight guided tour so I had a short wait. So here are some pictures you can see in the lobby area.

Oh, I’ve forgotten twice now to add this tidbit of info… These landing craft are made of wood, I know.. they look metallic (mind blown 🤯) and they were assembled in Louisiana.

(Also, I write my blog on the go and edit on the go so it’s sometimes jumbled especially in my head. 🤪Back to “normal” )

The guided highlight tour was a good idea if you want to see the museum in 2 hours.

British Gas Masks the small one is for a child.

Quick comment about the German medals for mothers. There were 3 levels women could earn, 4 to 5 kids for bronze, 6 to 7 for silver, and 8+ was gold. If you want to read more check out History.com

I gave myself an hour for lunch after the tour and I enjoyed the pie.

I also purchased an extra feature film. It is in a theater where the audience seating rotates and screens for videos drop from the ceiling or come out of the walls. It’s a good film. Tells how close the world came to the death of Democracy.

I went back around the whole museum again, a bit faster so I could use the dog tag feature. This is an interesting idea, giving those viewing the museum a method to make it more interactive and scratch the itch of those of us that “gotta catch’em all”. But seriously, each of the 6 stations lets you hear and see related topics to that area. Some is just text and others is video.

The exhibits are very engaging and there are individual soldier stories throughout the museum. Some you can read as seen below and others are recorded video or read letters of actual individuals. I feel the designers want everyone visiting to see the individual lives touched by this war.

Did you see the movie, Monument Men,? I haven’t but after this exhibit I want to watch it.

The Monument Men section has the best interactive screens. You can pick different paintings and learn when they were stolen by the Nazis, when/if they were recoved and their current location. A great experience.

I had a good time and learned some new things about that time in history. If you are in New Orleans, make sure to visit.

I wanted and didn’t want to return to my room so I headed to an Irish pub, Molly’s. The Guinness pour was in a regular pint glass, but they also had Smithwick on tap so I was happy; however, their internet was out so I had to use the last bit of my cash. This wasn’t limited to them. I went to the Vampire Apothecary for dinner and their internet was out too. They’re computers could at least scan credit cards and proccess them when the internet came back. If you’ve read my other blogs about New Orleans you will notice I’ve visited this restaurant 3 times now. I wanted to try their boudin stuffed quail, but they ran out. The last time I visited they were out of their baked salmon. That was the menu so I finally was able to sample that menu item.

Seriously, why do people say brussels sprouts taste awful? The ones here were very good and the salmon was moist and flaky. Sidenote: the restaurant was saying good bye / happy birthday to one of their employees. I found that a nice touch. People that weren’t on shift actually came in to the restaurant to say goodbye and wish the person a happy birthday. That says something about the establishment, at least to me.

I was tempted to go for a few more rounds at one of the clubs on Bourbon Street, but I did have 2 beers in the hotel and seriously the hotel bar wasn’t that more expensive than the bars, so… That is if you wanted a nice cocktail. Another side note: something I find interesting about bars in New Orleans, in my mind Jack Daniels and Jim Beam are on the same level; yet, some bars charge $1 more for each and it seems to be random. Just an observation.

Well, that is going to close out my trip to New Orleans. I didn’t make it to Caesars Place like I wanted, but that might be a good thing. I don’t know if the Black Jacket gods were on my side.

Until the next adventure… which will be in July can anyone say Comic Con.. no not the one in San Diego, another one in Texas.

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on June 26, 2025 at 8:44 pm Comments Off
Tags: louisiana, New Orleans, travel, vacation, WWII

New Orleans the Summer Tour – Day 3

I woke up this morning and over a cup of coffee I decided to plan out my last 2 days in NOLA. Today I will be visiting the NOMA (New Orleans Museum of Art) They open later today (12 PM) because they stay open later for an evening event:

“On select Wednesdays, NOMA presents a gallery talk series featuring conversations with musicians about their creative processes, followed by short, intimate performances inspired by works on view.”

The NOMA is located in the southern portion of the New Orleans City Park. The area is under a heat advisory so I’m going to limit how much outside activities I do, but I can’t pass up a city park. On Google maps it looks like a very large park.

City Park, New Orleans, LA, United States

So here is a more detailed account of my events for the day.

It was a short drive from the hotel to the city park and I arrived just a bit before 10 AM. I was planning on visiting the Botanical Gardens; however, they didn’t open until 10 AM. Luckily, there is a Cafe Du Monde near so time for some beignets. 🥰

I’m just going to say it at the start so you can sweat with me as I walk through the Botanical Garden. If there has just been a breeze.. At least the flowers were pretty and I saw a squirrel..

Wait I thought you said there was a squirrel, I didn’t see one. Just hold on it’s coming.

After melting in the Botanical Garden, I wandered around the Museum Sculpture Garden, fyi I still melted there.. no freakin breeze.

When I finally made it to the museum, the A/C was such a relief. Now I hear you asking “where are the pictures from the museum”, well I decided to just be in the moment so no pictures were taken.

It is a well planned museum. I enjoyed the one room dedicated to paintings from the local area painted in the 1800s and early 1900s. One surprise was the photography portion, they had hand painted slides on glass that acted like “slide shows”.

Wednesday is also free for residents of Louisiana, so if you live in the state, be sure to visit mid week.

I’m going to take it easy for the rest of the day. I wanted to see the musical presentation at the museum, but my personal battery is too depleted and my back needs a rest.

I had plans to go out to dinner tonight, but you know what? I was given the knowledge to make a gumbo and I’m going to do that.

I went to Winn-Dixie near the museum and purchased the needed ingredients.

Here are the results, and now I’m just going to read a book and enjoy the A/C in my hotel room.

Tomorrow is the WWII museum.

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on June 25, 2025 at 5:53 pm Comments Off
Tags: Botanical Gardens, flowers, museum, New Orleans, squirrel, vacation

New Orleans the Summer Tour – Day 2 – Night

So here I am on the steam paddle ship The Steamboat Nachez listening to a live jazz band waiting for the start of my 2 hour tour along the Mississippi River.

Remember in my post from The Day, I wrote about the rain bands? Well, one decided to grace us with its presence shortly after boarding.

Gladly it didn’t last long, but now all the chairs are wet. 🫤 But the band is playing again and the temperature is much better. It could be because of the rain or the river. Either way I’m happy to not be sweating as much.

The clouds are clearing off so hopefully I can get some ok pictures of the night sky.

Sadly it didn’t get dark enough and the clouds rolled back in so no night time sky. But here is one of a major sugar company.

The Natchez is a true steam engine paddle wheel and you can visit the engine room and boiler room while in motion.

The Natchez is only 50 years old, but the engines are 100 years old.

It did get dark enough to see the lights on the bridge and Caesar’s Palace

And with that I headed back toward my hotel with a stop for fried chicken and a drink.

Until tomorrow, which I have no set plan yet. Check back to see where I go and what I do.

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on June 24, 2025 at 10:15 pm Comments Off
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New Orleans the Summer Tour – Day 2 – Day

Rain, and some more rain… I knew when I headed this way that rain was forecasted for the New Orlean’s area and stupidly I thought it would help with the heat… Well yes it did drop the temperature a few degrees but it jacked up the humidity so my walk 2 mile walk along the river and down the city streets had me covered in sweat as if I had just run a 5K.

I’ve only been in New Orleans when the Christmas trip was up. The plaza looks unnatural without it.

The Christmas Tree should fill this picture.

Ignoring the sweat, it was a nice peaceful walk. Even got to see some of the street cleaners in action, probably the only time Bourbon street smells nice.

I continued my walk, almost timing the start of my cooking classes; however, I had to spend about 20 minutes relaxing in a coffee shop since I was early. Such a terrible situation (hehe)

Now the cooking class…

I recommend taking the cooking class if you are every in New Orleans. Don’t do the demonstration followed by a meal class, pay for the you cook and eat what you cook class. Why? The class is smaller and you get to practice what the chef is telling you. You will wish you had the help with the clean up. There was an assistant the kept clearing away the empty bowls and cups. Also, the class I signed up for had all the ingredient pre-cut so if you want to learn how to cut vegetables you will have to select a different class. Now on to the cooking…

The first dish we prepared was a gumbo. I started lard melting into a pan, yes I said lard don’t question the method, which I then mixed in flour and stirred slowly until the flour cooked and became the color a milk chocolate.

While this is going on I had pot heating up some sausage, stirring only occasionally because you want the brown bits to get stuck to the bottom of the pot to improve the flavor of the gumbo.

I’m not going to give you the whole recipe here, because you need to take the class. But here is the pot of gumbo after the rue, sausage and chicken are combined together with chicken stock and a spice blend. This will continue to simmer on low while you prepare the rice and fish.

This was the first time I’ve had rice turn out correctly with out using a rice cooker. I started with melted butter and onions. Cooking the onions until the are soft but before they start to brown and caramelize. This was pecan rice so that this point I added in the pecans and stirred to coat them with the buttery onions. Keep heating on lowish setting until the pecans start to release their oils. Mix in the rice, pour in chicken stock, bring to a boil, lower the heat to a simmer place a lid on the rice and don’t touch it until its finished.

It’s now time to start the main dish of red fish. Again melt a good amount of butter in a pan, season the fish and the flour you will be coating the fish. Once the butter is hot add the fish being sure to lay the fillet in the pan away from you so if the hot butter splashes it will be away from you. (Nice tip I normally just plop my meat into the middle of the hot liquid. I do it slowly, but now I’ll add that extra step.

Cook the fish until it is about 75% of the way and then flip it over. Don’t burn the butter, it will be used in a moment to create an almond sauce. Remove and plate the fish fillet and continue with that almond sauce. Again you will need to take the class to get the full recipe. Yes, I’m evil, sorry not sorry.

And here is my lunch cooked by my own hands at the directions of Chef Austin. Sorry not going to try to spell his last name, it started with an F and is very New Orleans. I may have put too much sauce on my fish, but I didn’t want it to go to waste.

All of it was very good, if I do say so myself. The cook did an amazing job.

After finishing lunch it was time for Banana Foster. Chef Austin told the story of where this dish originated.

From Wikipedia: “In 1951, Ella Brennan and the restaurant’s chef Paul Blangé worked together to modify a dish made by Ella’s mother in the Brennan family home. At this time, New Orleans was a major hub for the import of bananas from South America. It was named for Richard Foster, the chairman of the New Orleans Crime Commission and a friend of restaurant owner Owen Brennan.”

You can learn a bit more with this article from NPR, The Sweet Success of Banana Foster …

Now let’s see the dish in action. The sparks in the flame are from magic powder, ok it’s only cinnamon, but thinking it’s magical adds to the fun.

I am very full after all that food and it’s getting ready to rain again so I’m heading back to the hotel to write up this portion of today’s blog and try to digest my lunch. Again, if you are ever in New Orleans be sure to take a class at the New Orleans School of Cooking or book a class here on their website. They have 10 AM classes and 6 PM classes with different menus on different days and times. But the Banana Foster is almost in every class. Who doesn’t like a open flame in the middle of the dinner table.

I was going to wait until later tonight to post this update, but I’m going to do it now and just make another post for tonight’s river boat tour.

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on June 24, 2025 at 2:41 pm Comments Off
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New Orleans the Summer Tour 2025 – Day 1

Let’s get the elephant in the room out of the picture first… It’s freaking hot here compared to my visit in December.

Now that’s out of the way on to this trip…

The drive here was pleasant nothing to talk about; however, the stop at the Louisiana Tourist building and trail is worth mentioning.

I tried to record some video so you could hear the insects, but the video is not stable for some reason so, but here is a video of a swamp with insects buzzing. Thank God there weren’t any mosquitos.

I made good time on I-10 and arrived in New Orleans with time to visit a Barnes & Nobels. I found a paperback copy of Terry Pratchett’s Wee Little Men. If you want a nice summary of Pratchett’s work check out this YouTube video. With time wasted enough and a free tote bag collected from my Barnes & Nobel membership it was time to head to the hotel.

Check in was quick and the valet took my truck off to the magical parking lot that vehicles play in while their owns are on vacation.

After unpacking it was time to grab a drink at the bar before heading off down Bourbon street.

I wanted to visit an “Irish” pub so I went to Erin Rose just off Bourbon Street. The Guinness was poured correctly and the bartender could give some good “craic” the prices were good too, a pint followed by a Jameson on the rocks was only $12.

By now its 7 PM and way past my dinner time so I went to try out The Court of Two Sisters. If you want another take on this restaurant check out Shaun’s Visit. I came in the back door, found the hostess and looked over the dinner menu and decided for the Chef’s Three Course Meal. I started with Turtle Soup, my main was blackened chicken with brussels sprouts and mash potatoes ending with bread pudding in a whiskey sauce.

My only complaint is/was the soup was too salty, but that is a common issue I have after 4+ years of not adding extra salt to anything. I would recommend this meal to friends that were coming to NOLA and need someplace to eat.

Now unlike Las Vegas, my body knew it was 8:30 PM and the adult beverages were starting to hit so I headed back to my hotel and started/completed this blog post.

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on June 23, 2025 at 9:34 pm Comments Off
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Christmas 2024 – New Orleans – Dec 26 – Final Day

The final day in New Orleans has arrived. I had plans to get tickets for the river boat tour but all the ones being offered included a buffet lunch and I really didn’t want to eat a buffet. So if I return, I will have to remember to book a tour earlier and probably not travel on a major holiday; however, if I had planned better there was an option to take a tour on Christmas Eve the night that the city lights a bunch of bonfires along the levels to help Santa find his way on Christmas.

This morning the day started with fog.

I had been doing on the days before I made a loop around the French Quarter and worked my way back to Canal Street. I stopped at French Truck Company for a coffee and a chocolate croissant. I also needed to use the bathroom and many of the places have a code to the bathroom. I could have bought a cup of water for $1, but I hadn’t have breakfast so why not eat a croissant.

It was still too early in the morning for any stores or many places to be open, most open at 10 AM. So I went back to my hotel room, finished my coffee and typed up my Christmas Day blog.

I left the hotel with a goal to buy a new bracelet and a new ring. I was able to find both, but not at the same place. I’m pretty sure I paid too much for the ring, but it is very hard to find rings that fit my fingers, so I am happy.

I think you can probably guess what will drive the narrative next, it’s lunch time. I tried the Trio Sampler or whatever it was called at Monty’s on the Corner. The meal didn’t disappoint and I got to sample a variety of New Orlean’s cuisine.

After lunch I signed up for a free Tour of The Sazerac House, which is basically a sales pitch for Buffalo Trace and Sazerac Rye Whiskey. You do learn the history of the cities cocktail, The Sazerac and how bartenders changed the recipe from Sazerac Cognac to bourbon and created a unique bitters to New Orleans.

The fog never really cleared out of the city all day. Here are some final pictures from the roof top pool of the hotel I’m staying.

And so ends my trips. The only thing left if for me to drive home. Until the next adventure.

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on December 27, 2024 at 8:00 am Comments Off
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Christmas 2024 – New Orleans – Dec 25 – Day 3

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Christmas day is finally here and the next Doctor Who Christmas Special will be airing later today on Disney+ so I will need to be back in the hotel room by 11 AM to watch before all the YouTubers and bloggers post their reviews and spoil the show. But enough of my nerdiness on to the morning adventure.

So I started the morning off with a 1 mile run, followed by a 1.25 mile walk. I planned on running the full distance but decided relax, knowing I was going to still walk a bunch later in the day. You know after the Doctor Who show.

An advantage to being up before 8 AM Christmas Day, is there is little to no traffic, so you can stand in the middle of an intersection and take pictures. This is the view from corner of Dumaine and Chartres

Looking Down Dumaine
Looking Up Chartres
Looking Up Durmaine
Looking Down Chartres

Yes, I realize you can get a better view if you just use Google Street view, but my picture is from Christmas Day, 2024.

Not only did I need to make sure I was back in my hotel room by 11 AM for the Doctor Who show. I also needed to be inside before the rain storm predicted for mid day reported for duty.

Mid Day Christmas Rain Storm

Once the rain storm pasted by the weather cleared up enough for me to go walking about again, but this time to look for a late lunch. But before that, here is a picture of my Christmas cookies, the green icing was a bit too thin, but I did better with the red.

Now, back to lunch… Which was 3 crabcakes on a bed of spinach with grilled tomatoes from The Original Pierre Maspero’s. I was surprised to as many restaurants as I did open on Christmas Day. The drink was called a Black Pearl which is made with Amador Bourbon, amaretto, soda, and sweet and sour mix.

I had to look up the drink recipe so I visited their webpage. They didn’t use stock pictures, but took pictures of the real wait staff and bartender. Just found that interesting. Oh, the crabcakes were pretty good. I’d give them a 8 out of 10. They can’t compare to the ones I had in Maryland back in October of 2023. As a sidenote, I’m going to need to reorganize my categories here on the blog. I’m thinking of adding years under the vacation category. I had trouble going back an looking up where I was in 2023 for the crabcakes.

Look at how the clouds are so low they cover the top few floors of these buildings. Just thought this was cool.

Going to call it an early day, I only walked half as far as yesterday, 5.5 miles and the drinks I had at restaurant followed by the mulled wine I made in my hotel room have made me very sleepy. Until tomorrow’s adventure – the last day in New Orleans.

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on December 26, 2024 at 3:53 pm Comments Off
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Christmas 2024 – New Orleans – Dec 24 – Day 2

I started the day off with an early morning walking hoping to get some good pictures of the sunrise over the Mississippi River. The morning was very clear, thus with our clouds the sunrise doesn’t have as many colors, but it was still very pretty.

The pictures above were taken about 15 minutes apart, well maybe. I wasn’t really paying attention to time.

I think I took pictures of this “love lock” gate/fence thingy last time, but here it is again or possible for the first time.

If you break up with your true love, do you have to come back and cut off your love-lock?

I continued my morning walk through Jackson Square and then down Bourbon Street. Bourbon Street is very different in the morning with all the bars closed and the cleaning crews out picking up the mess from the previous night. If I understood the news this morning, a new cleaning company was hired by the city to clean up the French Quarter and they started this week. However, they started at Canal street and were working their way down Bourbon street, I was walking up the other way so I finished my walk on cleaner streets. I did have the joy of seeing a dead rat, a live rat and some guy on a bicycle offered me marijuana at 7:30 AM. As the guy rode away he kept commenting that it’s legal here… I guess he was hoping I would change my mind. Here are some pictures from along my walk.

Sorry if you looked through the pictures hoping to see the dead rat. I did think about taking a picture but decided I would give the little animal some respect in its death. 😂😇☠️

After getting some breakfast, I headed back to Canal Street to get a street car heading toward the Art Museum and the City Park so I could visit the Botanical Gardens.

Street Car on the 48 Line

I had a nice morning walking around the Botanical Garden; however, it is quite small compared to other ones I’ve visited. It did have a children’s theme park section with playground equipment and mini rides. I didn’t go to that side of the garden.

Taking the street car back toward the French Quarter, I arrive sometime after 1:00 PM and realize breakfast was a few hours in the past, which explains why I was feeling hungry. Time to grab some sea food from Landry’s.

If you are near Landry’s in New Orleans, try their version of an Old Fashion. It was one of the best I’ve had, but it is based off peach flavorings instead of orange. You could easily have a few of them before you realized that last one was one too many. I wanted to get a beignet, but I hate waiting in long lines so I skipped Cafe Du Monde again and tried to get a beignet at Cafe Beignet; however, they closed at 2 PM because of it being Christmas Eve. So I settled for some ice cream.

Oh, I forgot to mention I did do a bit of shopping before the ice cream. I went to two Christmas themed stores looking for, well honestly, I don’t know what I was looking for which is probably why I didn’t buy anything. If I had wanted a statue of Santa or the Grinch I had a great choices to choose from. I was tempted to buy the animated Charlie Brown TV statue, but not so much that I wanted to spend $35. I did stop by a shop selling hot sauces and I dropped $45 on a few hot sauces and spice mixes.

This picture was take on Christmas Day, the day after my visit on Christmas Eve which is why it is closed.

I walked passed this store but the aroma coming out the door drew me back hence the spending of money.

With all this walking, my Garmin watch let me know I had walked double my 8000 daily step challenge for a total of 10 miles of walking around the Botanical Garden and the French Quarter. So with my ice cream purchased I headed back for an early day.

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on December 25, 2024 at 10:28 am Comments Off
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Christmas 2024 – New Orleans – Dec 23 – Day 1

Last year I traveled to New Orleans the day after Christmas for a short trip. This year I decided why not celebrate Christmas in New Orleans. The advantage of revisiting a city is you can revisit the places you liked and look for different things to do.

I arrived in New Orleans around 4:30 PM and checked into my hotel, turning my truck over to the valet to not see it again until I leave on Friday morning. The drive getting here was very much like the previous year, so I won’t bore you, go look for it if you are new here. I can say the same annoying traffic jam on the bridge going over the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge happened. Back to the details I want to say about this trip.

After getting settled into my hotel room, so wish I had a good view out of my windows to show you, but I’m in the back corner on the 10th floor so I get to see the other back sides of the hotels around me and nothing of the city. So if I want to see the city, I’m going to have to go into it.

I was hungry and went to the Vampire Apothecary that I enjoyed last year to try another meal and desert. This time I tried their salmon sandwich, purple velvet cake. (The chocolate cake from last year was better.)

After dinner I walked around to try to find Christmas decorations and lights.

Tomorrow the plan is to see the Botanical Gardens.

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on December 24, 2024 at 8:39 pm Comments Off
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Christmas Adventure – Day 4 – Dec 28, 2023

Walked down Canal street to the river front. I thought about taking a street car, but after yesterday’s attempt and a notice on the official app, I decided walking would be faster.

I tried to get a beignet from Cafe Du Mont again, but it wasn’t open at 8:45 AM. So, I went to church again, but this time with my DLSR camera to get better pictures and I knew the doors opened at 9 AM.

I thought about getting another coffee at Cafe Beignet near the meeting point for the New Orleans tour, but decided I’d already had enough at breakfast so just decided to take some pictures of the steam boat and train station nearby.

I’m now sitting on the tour bus waiting for the tour to start.

Stop 1: Cemetery 3 Hear are some facts about New Orleans funeral practices.

You cannot open a grave for a year and a day. So, if some dies before the time frame, you have to rent a tomb or find a friend who will loan you one for the time. These above ground tombs get up to 400 degrees in the summer speeding up the decomposition process. The boneman will come back later and place the remains in a bag and reseal them in the tomb. These bags now, because of Hurricane Katrina, are non biodegradable with markers and identifiers of the deceased. The flood waters destroyed and damaged many of the tombs and remains were moved around with the waters.

Interesting story behind this tomb below. Skelly spent all her money on the tomb to spite her daughter who is not legally allowed to be laid to rest inside. Obviously, this was not a good mother/daughter relationship.

Some more facts… Families take care of tombs and reuse them for family members. The ones that are falling apart are family lines that have ended.

Now on to the Garden District… The Garden District was created from an old plantation that was subdivided. The further away from river for wealthy closer to river for working class, industry smell. Lessons are architecture

2nd most haunted house in New Orleans – yellow fever victims – Nicholas Cage owned it before going bankrupt.

After the tour ended I had to find a Lucky Dog Vendor on my nieces recommendation.

Kate, the tour guide said I should try a Sazerac.

So here we go…

The Sazerac from Cafe Beignet. It’s a cocktail made with Sazerac Rye, absinthe, Peychaud’s Bitters and a twist of lemon. The one here at the Cafe is a bit sweeter than I like.

I went to the Ritz to buy my sister one of their signature candles. Check out the decorations in the lobby.

Then it’s time for a short rest.

It’s only 5 PM, and I’m not going to just sit in my room. So off to Bourbon Street..

I’m hungry. Let’s go eat at a vampire restaurant.

The place is called Vampire Apothecary Restaurant and Bar. Check the linked website to learn more. I highly recommend a visit. The portions are small, but the taste is amazing.

There is a magic show later, so I’m eating and drinking slowly.

The Sazerac here was so much better. It had to be the handcrafted absinthe and bitters.

Time for tea and cake.

I’m going to call it an end to this post. Maybe I will tell you about the magic show in tomorrow’s post, but maybe not.

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Tags: cake, cemetery, New Orleans, nola, tours, vacation

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