New Orleans final day

We are home now from New Orleans, where there were lots of things to do…. For our final day we took a walking tour of the French Quarter with the park Service. It was boring but some of us learned some things. Others just increased their skills at Yahtzee. The tour stopped right in front of Café Du Monde where they are famous for their Bingets. The only things on the menu besides the bingnets are drinks (picture). You sit at a busy table, they come and take your order for bingnets and a drink, you pay and that is that. We also picked up a Muffeletto sandwich at Central Grocery, famous in New Orleans. In the afternoon we took a 3.5 hour self guided CD driving tour of Katrina. It was very sobering. Much has been done in the clean up efforts but there are lots of reminders. One sobering thing are the X’s on houses, Each X represents a time the house was visited by the army or whomever. One house had 4 X’s on it. Between the top V they have the date visited, the other V’s of the X have important information. On this house the 3rd visit found 3 dead. People went into their attics and died there and they didn’t start going into the attics to look for dead bodies until a few weeks after the damage. Some that went into the attics took hatchets with them so they could hack their way out. Some just died. It was August and extremely hot. One leavy was never finished because they were arguing who would pay for it and everyone suffered. After getting back to our condo we voted to not go out for dinner….. NO, NO, NO, not another delicious, high fat meal!!!! We ate the few leftovers we had and packed up. Janell and I came home on a 10AM flight, went to the cabin and waited for Kay’s 5PM flight to come in. One thing I regret is not taking a class at the New Orleans cooking school. Maybe another time. Best thing we did: Buy an entertainment coupon book for New Orleans. That is how we chose where we were eating. We ordered 2 meals (buy one get one free) and shared them. Plenty for us. Janell’s favorite thing: road trip, WWII museum Janae: swamp tour, WWII museum. Kay: Biloxi shrimp boat