Friends, where has the time gone? Summer is nearly over and school will be here before I know it!
Besides the two weddings we've attended this summer, working at the Junior League, soaking up time with my little pup, and Drew working extra hard at his job... We haven't had time to go on any vacations. So, he surprised me with a quick trip to The Big Easy!!
We went the weekend of July 15-17, and it was so perfect. We ended up driving around noon on Friday, Drew was lucky to take a 1/2 day :) We drove into New Orleans around dinner and checked into our hotel. We stayed at the most beautiful hotel in the French Quarter.
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| The Omni Royal Orleans |
After checking into our hotel, we decided to head on over to Bourbon St., get a hand grenade or daiquiri and find a delicious place to eat! Our plan was to find Acme Oyster House, we had heard from multiple friends that it was phenomenal, however, the wait was TOO long :( So, we thought by drinking our daiquiri we would just wait in line and it would keep us busy. But, the STRONG drink and me did not mix so we ended up going to Bourbon House Seafood because the wait wasn't very long and I could eat some crackers quickly to help ease my sickness :( I perked up quickly after some water, saltines, and ditching the drink and the food was AMAZING!
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| Bourbon Street |
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| Dinner on Friday night |
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| Excuse my looks, it was HOT, and this was me before the sickness... FYI, don't get a Jester!! |
After dinner we decided to walk down to the crazy side of Bourbon Street and then head back to the hotel. Our time was going to be limited this weekend to see everything and we knew we wanted to wake up early Saturday to pack as much in.
Saturday morning we headed over to Cafe du Monde for their FAMOUS benigets and cafe au lait. Let me just tell you that it was as AMAZING as everyone has always said.
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| The line was ridiculous but worth every minute :) |
After breakfast we spotted in front of Jackson Square, carriage rides! We hopped on one and decided to relax and find out history and some famous places around the French Quarter, via horse ride :) It was so delightful. It was the perfect way for two people to learn so much about NOLA from a local. We even stopped and took a tour of one of the oldest cemeteries. I thought that part would be creepy but it actually was so interesting!
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| Our carriage and horse, Christmas :) |
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| Sidewalk art! |
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| Jackson Brewery |
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| William Falkner's House |
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| One of these cute houses is worth about a half mil or even more! And this one is even a duplex... |
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| Locals think that if they paint blue anywhere on their house it will ward off "spirits" |
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| The cemetary |
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| Entrance |
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| All of the dead are buried above ground because of NOLA being under sea level... |
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| Marie Lavaeu's tomb.... she was known as the Queen of VooDoo |
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| Nicholas Cage's tomb... he is often seen when he comes to visit New Orleans standing on his tomb or near it talking with tourists... strange... Also, when he went bankrupt the bank took everything but they couldn't take his tomb. |
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| The one of two pictures we took together! |
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| The only public school in the French Quarter |
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| I'm obsessed with all of the balconies and fluer-de-lis everywhere! |
After our wonderful carriage ride, we decided to walk around Jackson Square and admire the gorgeous Cathedral. It was incredible inside, I didn't take any pictures inside though, not appropriate.
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| The GORGEOUS St. Louis Cathedral |
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| Andrew Jackson Monument |
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| In front of the Cathedral... the people behind me were taking engagement pictures, haha! |
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| New Orleans |
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| Soo good!! |
Then, we got ready to go on our Ghost Tour!! We met with the rest of our little group at Jax's and then spent 2 hours walking around with our tour guide looking at the most haunted buildings and hearing some of the most scariest stories of the French Quarter. Here are a few pictures of some of the "haunted" buildings and where sightings have been seen. Also, near the end of our tour we saw Brad & Angelina's House!
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| Beauregard Keys House |
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| Scary old haunted building... can't remember the name! |
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| Jean Lafitte's Smoke Shop Bar |
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| Cornstalk Fence Hotel |
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| Le Petit Theatre |
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| The Lalaurie Mansion... The most haunted building in the French Quarter! |
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| Interview with a Vampire house! |
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| Andrew Jackson Hotel |
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| Jolie-Pitt... not haunted, just had a celebrity moment. |
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| Muriel's Restaurant |
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| Muriel's Table.. they set it every night for the ghost! |
Our ghost tour was soo neat! Afterwards, it was pretty late but we still hadn't eaten dinner so we ate the haunted ghost restaraunt, Muriel's. It was amaze! I had blackened redfish and dirty rice and Drew had gumbo. We didn't see any ghosts :)
The next day was Sunday, and we packed the car and headed home. Before we left though we drove down to the Garden District and oohed and ahhed over the huge houses. We had the greatest time! We definitely want to go back because two of the things we wanted to do was a swamp tour and the plantation tour. We will be going again VERY soon. For anyone that hasn't been to New Orleans, you should go! What a wonderful, unique place it is.
1 comment:
LaLaurie is the house I have been working on at my job. Jealous about your NOLA trip. Would love to go back!!
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