Tour of New Orleans

I realize this is supposed to be a blog about my travels and I haven't really written about what I've done since I've been down here.  And since I'm supposedly leaving soon, I figured it may be time to tell everyone what I did when I wasn't at work.

So here's my tour of New Orleans...

For all of the pictures you can go to my Flickr site - www.flickr.com/foto4lizzie

Mississippi River
There's a nice river walk down in New Orleans that winds along the Mississippi river.  I went down there the first weekend I was here and explored some by myself.

French Quarter
Then I wandered down to the French Quarter, near Bourbon Street.

Garden District
My favorite area of New Orleans is definitely the Garden District.  There are tons of shotgun houses and parks and street cars.  Tulane and Loyola are down in that area as well.  I wandered through Audubon Park.  I've been told the zoo is pretty good.  I never made it over there.  Lots of great little shops to wander through on Magazine St. as well!

 Cemeteries
There are tons of cemeteries down in New Orleans - St. Louis, Metairie, etc.  I went with one of the other engineers to go take pictures and wander through to see some of the older tombs.  They recommend not to go by yourself because there might be people waiting to mug you - I decided not to test that theory...

A Little Further West - Oak Alley Plantation
Closer to the refinery there is a lot of sugar cane farm land.  And with the farm land comes the plantations.  I went to Oak Alley - it's pretty well known.  The lane up to the house is lined with the huge oak trees.  The trees are hundreds of years old.  And I happened to tour the house while they still had Christmas decorations up - so pretty!

I did a few other things around the area.  Went on my first motorcycle ride, went to the DDay Museum (which was pretty awesome, go see the movie they have!), and ate lots of food.  I had alligator for the first time ever.  I had coffee at Cafe Du Monde.  I think I covered most of New Orleans.  The only thing I'm missing is the swamp - maybe next time?