Humidity and heat are not a good combination, toss in a group of people and you have a really good chance of them turning on each other, as was evidenced yesterday. Damn but this place is HOT, hotter than Las Vegas (only because of the humidity).
Other than the heat New Orleans is as equally fascinating as San Francisco just in a different way. The people are friendly and I just adore their accent, hard to describe but definitely distinctive. We’re staying in the Historic Creole Inn which is everything its website claims it is. The rooms are charming and we have a bar fridge, access to a microwave and for some reason at least a dozen flannels (go figure). There is no maid service during your stay but there is aircon and right now I’d take aircon above absolutely anything else.
This sign is pretty much the only indication that one is at the right place
We walked around the French Quarter popping into many shops unfortunately prices of things around here are exorbitant, they’re beautiful but way out of our price range, sadly. Many antique shops with inkwells (Mom collects them) but I figured $175 was definitely more than we were willing to fork out.
A typical street in the French Quarter
Yup, they want $15k for 7 signed Potter books – are they nuts?
In our travels around town we spotted a tour booth, initially we thought we’d take one of the Ghost tours but as soon as the seller mentioned it was a 2 hour walking tour I put my foot down. We ended up on the swamp tour which was made almost bearable by our guide, he was both informative and funny. I know I’m going on and on about the heat but it is as bad as I’m making out. Oh and the tour booth seller could seriously do with an anger management class whilst he was dealing with us some poor unsuspecting tourist reached out to take a pamphlet and got her head bitten off in the process much yelling on the part of our seller and then he turns back to us as sweet as can be.
Anger Management Dude
The swamp
The only gator we saw – even he was too hot to swim out to eat the marshmallow
For some reason they feed them marshmallows, not sure if that’s ecologically a good thing but its what they do. They apparently have a couple of really big alligators reaching up to 11 feet in length.
After the swamps we came back to our rooms (oh sweet aircon) and played google trying to find somewhere to eat but more importantly somewhere to buy booze. Both missions accomplished we left the kids happily watching tv while we foraged.