The Degas House New Orleans
2306 Esplanade Ave. New Orleans, Louisiana, 70119, United States
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Feb 9 - Louisiana State Museum (Presbytere)
... of the Louisiana State Museum in 1911.
We spent most of our time there looking at the Katrina exhibit. Some pretty sobering stuff. What got me were the audio recordings of stories told by people who were trapped when the storm hit, or who were part of the rescue effort. We've heard before since we're here that it wasn't the storm that caused the devastation - it was the poor planning and failure of the measures that had been put in place to ...
Nawleens. Straight up, y’all
... severely damaged by the flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina. Six years
later there are many houses still boarded up and empty because people evacuated
and never came back. What continues to make life a struggle for the people that
did move back is the fact that major services providers like supermarkets, shopping
outlets and clinics decided not to reopen. There are huge empty blocks where
massive chain stores like Walmart stood and ...
New Orleans...What a Place!!!
... was only $10 for a main so we allowed ourselves to go there. After all...Obama ate there when he was here...how could we miss it :) Anyway we shared a cup of gumbo which was phenomenal...soo good..mmm we also tried their fried catfish and fried chicken which was super tasty...we finished off with a pecan pie...yum!!
Totally full, we checked in at our new hostel and then went down town to do the walking tour around the city centre. ...
A FUN First Visit
Those of us going to build houses in Plaquamines Parish met a day early in NO to have fun. Oh, Jesse, we did.
We drank Hurricanes (and other booze) and walked the streets and bought touristy ****. We had fun. The next day we went to a Lutheran church that was one of the epicenters of volunteer care after Katrina. What a great congregation. They left the high water marks on the windows after they remodeled the ...
Big E-Z
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DAY FIVE
More IHOP... Tel' seemed to be better so we went to the Audobon Zoo, one of the top 3 zoos in the US. Pretty damn cool, with highlights including; warthogs, white tigers, lions, toucans, cheetahs, American children (a bit annoying), aussie birdhouse (with kookaburras), taipias, anteaters, leopards, racoons, bears, orangutans, gorillas and two headed snake. Nice dinner to close out the day with a nightcap bourbon ...
This bed and breakfast was formerly known as: Degas House Historic Home Courtyard & Inn



