New Orleans - Day 7

This is our last full day in the States. Tomorrow morning, we will depart from Louis Armstrong International Airport. And I'm still not tired to say it: I WANT TO STAY!!!

We spent our day at a Lakeside Shopping Center. Not much to say about it, just shopping! :-)

Now we're going to have dinner and afterwards pack our bags.

New Orleans - Day 6

Happy biiiiiirthday to me
happy birthday tooooo me
happy birthday dear benny
happy birthday toooooo meeeeeeeeee! :-)

As requestet, I had a birthday breakfast with a very good french toast. Yummy!!!

Since it rained (of course it did, it's my birthday!;-)) we went to the National World War II Museum. It was very interesting and we spent most of the day there.

Afterwards we had dinner in the French Quarter and then I wanted to celebrate in one of the bars with live music. We found a nice one on Bourbon Street. They had one of the finest cover bands that I had ever seen! Even Sonja liked it! :-)
I also discovered a new favorite cocktail, the hurricane! They poured it into 1 liter cups!!!
I can tell you, that drink lives up to it's name! ;-)

New Orleans - Day 5

In the morning, we took a streetcar all the way up to City Park.
Before getting on the streetcar, we saw our first police arrest! I wonder what this guy did...

New Orleans' biggest park is even bigger than Central Park in New York! It has lots of small lakes and it was just nice to take a walk there - even for a walk-grouch like me! ;-)

At the end of our walk we came to the so called Singing Oak. Actually, it's not singing but rather chiming, which is a lot nicer because nobody really wants to hear a tree singing! ;-)

  

After leaving the park, we had ice cream at the oldest ice cream shop in New Orleans. Very goooooood!

And right next door, at Walgreens, they sold Krispy Kreme doughnuts! FINALLY, I got 'em! The best doughnuts available on this planet!

Of course we had to get back to the hotel as soon as possible to eat them there, because when somebody sees you eating them in public, you might be asked to share them. ;-)

We rested for a time in our room and to be fit again for dinner. As you might have already guessed, we eat a lot over here! :-)

We had dinner at Coop's Place, a tiny bar in the French Quarter, which concierge strongly recommended. Affordable good food. I had an awesomely delicious jambalaya there. 

After dinner, we thought it best to go to the movies and since we were a little late (not just because we stopped for dessert at another place ;-)), we took a taxi instead of walking. Arriving at the theater, we were told that the movie was sold out and since the forecast promised us rain for the evening, we decided to go back to our hotel room. Now I'm lying here and guess what hasn't happened yet. Correct, no rain! 

Tomorrow evening I'll celebrate with Sonja at a cocktail bar. NO MATTER WHAT!!! ;-)

New Orleans - Day 4

Today's motto: walking!

We picked two of the walks from our travel guide. The first one was through the Garden disctrict. A residential area with lots of beatiful old houses. Some of them date back to the 19th century. The walk started with the visit of Lafayette Cemetery.

The second walk went through the French quarter. Like during the first walk, Sonja read out the articles that the travel guide provided for every house that was somewhat special. Personally, I don't care who built it and what his issues were! The houses are beautiful and I just enjoyed seeing them!  :-)