New Orleans. What can I say. This will probably be the highlight of the trip south this year. We had two goals. A trip on a steamboat down the Mississippi and to go on a Hurricane Katrina tour of the city. On day one we boarded the Steamboat Natchez. It was a 2 hour harbour tour of New Orleans. It included narration, live jazz music and lunch. Lunch….what can I say? I got to try CATFISH for the first time. It did not taste bad at all but it took a lot of will power to get the idea through my head. After the trip we decided to head out to the French Quarter and hit some of the famous streets. Stephanie had never been on a street car so we decide to take one to the cemetery district. The cemeteries closed at16:30 so we did not get to go in. The streetcar brought us back into town and we enjoyed dinner at Evangelines. The food was good. What seemed alien to us though was when they offered us our drinks in “to go” cups. It was cool. We ended day one by going back to Bourboun Street to see what it looked like at night. It was only 20:00 so it was not that busy.
