City Park New Orleans

Rawley is a vet in town and lives in a lovely home across of Bayou St. John near City Park. His home was once the residence of the Archbishop who resided over JFK's funeral service. His remodel is gorgeous complete with an art collection as nice as a small gallery. The yard, gardens, pool, and oak trees are breathtaking.

He made fish and …

Hello hello! We arrived in New Orleans, LA on Friday (or NOLA as the locals say) and are having so much fun we never want to leave, so we've found a place and have decided to stay forever. Hope no one minds too much, it's much cheaper to fly down here anyway so everyone should be cool with that right? No just kidding, but seriously though.....if …

Feb 5
Yesterday when we were chatting with Bob, we asked him about the flooding in this area from Katrina. He said there was flooding, but that this house only had water up over the grass to the foundation (it's elevated off the ground) and none got into the house. However, they are on what he thinks is the highest piece of land in the …

... us 2 seats each and 2 pillows.. it was like Christmas had come early! We actually travelled through 10 states and countlesscities on our way to New Orleans. There isnt actually much to do on these trains so we spent most of the time trying to amuse ...

... but he also removes the seats when the bikes are on the back of the car.   We went on a bus tour of the city of New Orleans, and  visited the areas that  had been flooded  by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.  It was the ...

... Regent of France Philippe d' Orléans, Duke of Orléans. It goes by a lot of other names - NOLA (New Orleans, Louisiana), Crescent City, the City that Care Forgot, Hollywood South - but my personal favourite is The Big Easy. There doesn’t appear ...

... , it was extremely fun! Right after breakfast we headed over to begin our servant work at the Big CIty Park here in the heart of New Orleans. After work we spend the remainder of the day together walking around downtown New Orleans and browsing through ...

... huge sigh of relief! Third, we got our assignments for Thursday and Friday. Thursday we'll be working in The Big City Park here in New Orleans and working with fixing and helping to maintain the parks beauty (Fun Fact: Part of Benjamin Button was filmed ...

... joke reeked) I decided I needed a little culture, so the next day I went to the other side of town to City Park and the New Orleans Museum of Art.  This is a very nice all around collection of Art from contemporary to classical.  ...

... we grabbed some tea at a cute little cafe and watched the people go by, and then our goal was to go to City Park.  But, let me tell you, New Orleans is one of the most confusing cities to drive in ever.  All the streets are one-ways and they go ...

... in the French Quater a rectangular street system shows up with buildings that may be the reason why New Orleans sometimes is called the "most european" city in North America. But apart of the french street names there were not many things reminding me ...

... a vapore sul Mississippi. L'altra un po' più di nicchia: mattino passeggiata nel Garden District, pomeriggio - sera concerto al City Park.   Il Natchez è un vero battello a vapore con la ruotona che, girando, aiuta a raffreddare (non so ...

... the fudge it was time for our city tour.  It was crazy to see the evidence of hurricane Katrina, especially after being in New Orleans before the floods, and being told about the levees and how if they break the whole city will flood.  You can ...