New Orleans tour

Well I think we are eating our way through New Orleans, we have had Red Beans and Rice, Jambalya, tons of Gumbo, Beignets, Creole, Etouffee and today Ron had a Muffuletta. Wow, I am going to have to eat nothing for a month after this.

We went on a city tour this morning, it took in all parts of the city including some of the damage done by Katrina.

It started from the river where the paddlewheeler Natchez is.

Here is the line up at the Cafe de Monde, waiting to get their fresh beignets and coffee, they have to be good with a line up like this.

This is one of the houses in the area that the water was deep, they marked the homes so that everyone would know if they had been checked. The top was the date, to the right were marked such as NE for No Entry, the bottom might have 1A for one found alive or 1D for deceased or even 1dia for 1 dead in attic. Many homes have not been reclaimed.

This is Fats Dominos home, they say he never left but was found sitting on the roof and had to be lifted up with a helicopter.



This is the levee that broke into the 9th ward that did most of the damage

Below are some of the more wonderful southern homes.

We stopped at the St. Louis cemetery.

You can still see signs of Mardi Gras, here is a bead tree, when throwing the beads they end up everywhere.

This interesting fellow was down on the riverfront.

The Saint Louis Cathederal behind the Andrew Jackson Square.

They were just bringing out the shrimp from the boil after we had our lunch, they look so good.

Well better get to bed, got lots to do tomorrow.