New Orleans - Day 1

The day started at 3:00 am, when I wolke up on the train and couldn't get back to slepp. Fortunately I had enough movies on my laptop to kill time until Sonja woke up at sunrise.
Traveling on a train through across the country was a good choice because it's absolutely stress-free! :-)
Plus, you get to see more of the landscape than you would see when traveling on an airplane.

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, we finally arrived in New Orleans. And took a cab to our hotel. The room is very nice and clean and they have a concierge service, which we immediately had book us on a plantation tour and a swamp tour for tomorrow.

Since it was still warm and sunny, we bought two tickets for a dinner cruise on the Natchez, a Mississippi steamboat. We had a really good time aboard - good food, a great view, and a very good jazz band!

After deboarding, we took a walk through the French Quarter. Amazing!!! Almost every bar has live music on every evening! I'm in heaven!!! :-)
Since we already had been pretty worn out, we got back to the hotel with the plan to go to some of these bars in the next evenings.