New Orleans Trip

For Labor Day we went to go visit my sister, Annaliese, who just had a new baby boy, and see the sites of New Orleans. We got the true New Orleans experience as we arrived in the midst of Tropical rain storm Lee. We ate lots of Cajun food which was Ryan's main goal, got to be there for Carter's baby blessing and played a lot with my niece addie and new nephew Carter. Luckily the weather cleared up the last day before Ryan flew out so that we were able to go on a really fun swamp tour, ate Beignet, (french doughnuts) at the famous Dumond cafe, and walked around the French Quarter. We also went uptown where the universities are and walked around looking at all the houses that were so beautiful with really cool archicecture and my favorite big front porches and huge (I can't remember what kind of trees) lining the streets. I stayed a few extra days after Ryan left and ate Blue Bell ice cream to my heart's content :) and generally hung out, went to a couple of parks, tried to highlight Annaliese's hair-didn't turn out- she had to dye it dark after i left, and went on a tour of one of the old plantation houses.

And now for the pics....

Carter's Blessing Day

On the Swamp tour...

.There were a bunch of houses (I use that term very loosely) on a part of the river that some people actually lived in year round, and can only be gotten to by boat, and some were just fishing getaways. This one never recovered from Katrina

Cafe Dumond

Jackson Square

French Market
French Quarter

Cool house by the university. All the houses were so nice, there was one street that we wanted to walk down but was gated with a guard who said we couldn't get in without invitation.
We didn't take a whole lot of video, but Ryan put this little video together of our trip really quickly, I think its working...