Thursday, 28 February

We left the campground earlier than any previous day and headed to the city via the ferry to be able to get into the Garden District and a cemetery.  One gets a really nice view of the city from the ferry, as you can see below!

New Orleans Skyline

Now that we are old pros at taking the trolley, we headed right for St Charles Street where we got our ride out to the Garden District.  As we passed through the various neighborhoods we noticed that some of the trees by the street were quite literally covered in Mardi Gras beads.  Really quite a sight, but sorry, no photos got taken!  The trolley ride costs $1.25 one way.  A fare we think is quite reasonable given the distance one might be otherwise walking to get around.

David, Paul and Dee on the trolley

Looking from the inside to the trolley ahead of us

Once at the cemetery we walked pretty much full circle around it as well as up and down many of the rows of mausoleums.  We really spent a lot of time looking at the names and data on the graves and marveled that some were even written in German!  There was some indication of service duty (military) on the tombs, and the war in which the person had served as well as where they might have died.  So many of the mausoleums are for an entire family with names engraved in the stone surfaces for multiple generations.  Quite impressive.

Small angel

Angel on a tomb

After the cemetery we walked through the Garden District and then took the trolley back to the French Quarter and looked up K-Paul's Restaurant (Chef Paul Prudhomme) where we had a great lunch and picked up some of his spice mixes.  If some of you recall, back in the 80s-90s there was a show on Louisiana cooking which he did on public TV.  Marty and her son, Seth, loved this show.

We made one last stop at the record store so Paul could stock up on some good music before heading back to the campground.  Tomorrow we'll head down to the coast to Grand Isle and hope that it warms up some!