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Started the day getting picked up to do a city tour..It went for 3 hours and we went everywhere...we drove around the French Quarter first checking out all the houses..So many Gunshot houses..originally built because you paid taxes on the width of your property, so they built them 1 room wide with no hallway..just doors and you walked through each room to get to the next..quite cute they are..so they have singles and ...
New Orleans, Cajun Country and San Antonio TX
... holds lots of people so it takes that long to get everybody on. At 1:45pm while you are waiting on the dock, they perform a calliope concert on the steam calliope of the ship.
We started out going downstream on the Mississippi river and we passed many industrial dock areas, barges, the 9th ward, a Domino Sugar refinery and a Mobil Oil refinery. At the sugar refinery they were unloading the raw sugar from a boat and dumping ...
" Laissez les bons temps rouler "
... hardly even before my knees and elbows had time to touch the ground I had four guys swoop in and pick me up.. it was amazing... such chivalry... what gentlemen!!!
I have to be honest and say I don't remember too much more of the night after this point... we walked straight back to the hotel, there's a picture of me patting two police horses and I wasn't arrested so I must have been talking ok!!
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New Orleans
... I ordered a dozen Rockefeller with creamy spinach topping which arrived within 5 minutes. They were quite small but good. The guy also opened one of the oysters from the sink behind the bar and gave it to me so I could taste them natural. It was much bigger than the ones I had and very tasty – apparently they’re cultivated at a farm 80 miles down the coast.
The last quarter of the Saints game was playing on the TV over the bar (seems everywhere is supporting ...
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... to Big W & K Mart in Australia) and saw the book section and there for sale was not one but 31 different versions of The Bible available for purchase, actually only 30 now as I couldn't resist a leather bound repro copy of a 400yrs old RKJ version for $4.99 and there was only the one copy left. Yes US does have K Marts and how's this for service I was shopping in Irondale and made a purchase. Upon checking my emails an hour later they had sent me ...