New Orleans part 2
Ok here is part 2 of our trip, this should be shorter lol..
First a couple of things I forgot from day one. We found the Boondock Saints bar!! I already posted the pic on tumblr but will put it here too since not everyone follows me or has a tumblr.
We didn't go in, I had planned to go back later but that never happened. It was closed Friday morning and still hadn't opened by the time we left the city. Most of the other bars opened around noon but I guess they don't open til 2 or so. I was bummed. Anyway for anyone wanting to visit when they are in New Orleans it is on St. Peters st between Bourbon and Royal :)
Shoot there is more I forgot earlier and guess what! I forgot again, sigh... Hopefully it will come to me before I finish this post.
Oh I remembered a couple of things. relevant to my pirate fetish is this bar
Hee hee it gave me Captain Hook feels ;-)
also colorful characters can be found in the quarter. We saw a pirate couple just casually strolling the streets and also a woman who has to be a Bourbon st. staple. She was something else. An older woman with a big belly wearing funky hats, bikini tops and short shorts and skirts with fishnets and boots, we saw her both days and wow, just wow. its the only nice thing I can say about her.
Oh also there is a vampire bar and it serves True Blood for my True Blood fan friends :D
Its off on one of the side streets (sorry can't remember which one) and I got a kick out of it. Almost enough of a kick to go in and try the drink but alas I did not.
The objective of this trip was to have fun together as a couple and not get drunk so we shied away from all bars mostly. Maybe on the next trip though.
Ok now where did I end at in the other post.... Oh yeah, after the cemetery visit we drove over to the Garden district and walked around there just so I could see it, feel it, breath it! I have wanted to see the Garden district ever since I was a teen and read Interview with a Vampire for the first time. It was exactly how I imagined it and also completely different if that makes sense. The houses were smaller and closer together then I imagined but so very beautiful!
Again Ray only took one picture, sigh.. I really need to school him on that!!
This house is beautiful but there were sooo many others that were even more beautiful, had more ornate gardens and whatnot that I am bummed this is the one he chose to capture in a photo, sigh... men.... what ya gonna do?
Also wish he had gotten some of the trees in a photo. I guess because it was Mardi gras not too long ago they hadn't finished cleaning things up but there were beaded necklaces everywhere!! Hundreds, thousands even, of them just hanging from trees and it was just wow! So pretty looking in the sunlight.
We decided when we left to go a different route so we could drive the long bridge over lake pontchartrain. The bridge is 24 miles long over the lake and I thought for sure I would have a panic attack since the 7 mile bridge down in the Florida keys effected me that way, but I was fine and even enjoyed it, go figure haha..
This route took us to Mississippi instead of driving up through Louisiana for a good ways. We stopped in Gulfport and enjoyed the water and sand for a few before heading up the state and back home.
Our shadows :D
The rest of the drive was ugh, we got stuck in rush hour traffic so it made it almost 2 hours longer, blah. After it got dark we couldn't enjoy the view and it was cloudy so couldn't even enjoy the fact we were in the middle of no where and see a million stars. Made it home around midnight :)
First a couple of things I forgot from day one. We found the Boondock Saints bar!! I already posted the pic on tumblr but will put it here too since not everyone follows me or has a tumblr.
We didn't go in, I had planned to go back later but that never happened. It was closed Friday morning and still hadn't opened by the time we left the city. Most of the other bars opened around noon but I guess they don't open til 2 or so. I was bummed. Anyway for anyone wanting to visit when they are in New Orleans it is on St. Peters st between Bourbon and Royal :)
Shoot there is more I forgot earlier and guess what! I forgot again, sigh... Hopefully it will come to me before I finish this post.
Oh I remembered a couple of things. relevant to my pirate fetish is this bar
Hee hee it gave me Captain Hook feels ;-)
also colorful characters can be found in the quarter. We saw a pirate couple just casually strolling the streets and also a woman who has to be a Bourbon st. staple. She was something else. An older woman with a big belly wearing funky hats, bikini tops and short shorts and skirts with fishnets and boots, we saw her both days and wow, just wow. its the only nice thing I can say about her.
Oh also there is a vampire bar and it serves True Blood for my True Blood fan friends :D
Its off on one of the side streets (sorry can't remember which one) and I got a kick out of it. Almost enough of a kick to go in and try the drink but alas I did not.
The objective of this trip was to have fun together as a couple and not get drunk so we shied away from all bars mostly. Maybe on the next trip though.
Ok now where did I end at in the other post.... Oh yeah, after the cemetery visit we drove over to the Garden district and walked around there just so I could see it, feel it, breath it! I have wanted to see the Garden district ever since I was a teen and read Interview with a Vampire for the first time. It was exactly how I imagined it and also completely different if that makes sense. The houses were smaller and closer together then I imagined but so very beautiful!
Again Ray only took one picture, sigh.. I really need to school him on that!!
This house is beautiful but there were sooo many others that were even more beautiful, had more ornate gardens and whatnot that I am bummed this is the one he chose to capture in a photo, sigh... men.... what ya gonna do?
Also wish he had gotten some of the trees in a photo. I guess because it was Mardi gras not too long ago they hadn't finished cleaning things up but there were beaded necklaces everywhere!! Hundreds, thousands even, of them just hanging from trees and it was just wow! So pretty looking in the sunlight.
We decided when we left to go a different route so we could drive the long bridge over lake pontchartrain. The bridge is 24 miles long over the lake and I thought for sure I would have a panic attack since the 7 mile bridge down in the Florida keys effected me that way, but I was fine and even enjoyed it, go figure haha..
This route took us to Mississippi instead of driving up through Louisiana for a good ways. We stopped in Gulfport and enjoyed the water and sand for a few before heading up the state and back home.
Our shadows :D
The rest of the drive was ugh, we got stuck in rush hour traffic so it made it almost 2 hours longer, blah. After it got dark we couldn't enjoy the view and it was cloudy so couldn't even enjoy the fact we were in the middle of no where and see a million stars. Made it home around midnight :)