I am in a fantastic mood!
We are in New Orleans, and It's really starting to feel like it!
I'll backtrack a little here - we are staying at the AAE Bourbon House Hostel - It's not really anywhere near Bourbon street - It's actually on the border of the Garden & warehouse district - but it is only a 10minute street car ride away from the French Quarter. Anyway -the people we have met here are probably among my favourite's that we have met on the road - it's nice to be able to hang out with a group of people. There are a few Aussie's here too which make it feel a bit more like home.
Where we are staying we have a full kitchen so we are eating quite well, Steak, Pasta, Veggies etc and are off our Fast food $1 menu diet. Also there's a pool table out the back & I have won a few games, which is rare, I have to admit, but my commentary on the matter makes up for my losses, Overall what I'm getting at is it's a really cool place to be staying. We have this really cute room upstairs with a slanting celing becasue it's kind of like an attic. There is an outdoor courtyard & everyone chills, and It's cheap. Comes highly recommended to anyone coming soon.
We are on day 4 of 6, Over this time we have walked through the french quarter & Bourbon street, Checked out old old mansions in the garden district, seen alot of newly built houses also/repaired houses, area's of the community. It's all been very very pretty but I don't think it was until today when I really felt New Orleans.
We headed back into the French Quarter this morning with our list of to sees, but on the way our attention was caught by a live band, it seemed relatively early so we head to the pub, which turned out to be The Famous Door. The Famous door has been operational since 1934. On the way in the door is signed by a whole heap of celebrities, to note: Dolly Parton, Walt Disney, Bing Crosby, Ringo Starr, Denis Rodman, Slash etc. It was really cool little dirty bar & we walked in sat down & jut listened for a bit.
As we were there the bar started filling up, with big groups of people. The New Orleans Saints are playing at the Superdome tomorrow, and it looks like it's going to be a big game. So New Orleans is getting busy, and as it's Friday, everything is picking up.
There were more street performers that usual ( until it rained) and music spilling into the street from all places. It's just so full of culture. I'm loving it.
Anyway afterwards we went to see Tennessee Williams old house ( I studied Streetcar Named Desire' - and loved it, so was quite excited about this) It has actually been turned into a museum, so we went & had a quick look & learnt some New Orleans history.
So as I had said earlier it started to rain, so we are back home now, rather wet. But are drying our clothes and heading back out into it tonight. They, like Vegas have an open drinking policy here, so you can drink in the streets. So we should be able to do it on the cheap.
On top of that with the ball game tomorrow, we will get to take part in a tradition called "tailgating the Superdome" I will write more & explain once we experience & get to see what it's all about.
Au revoir pour le moment
Mel xx
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