Mobile and New Orleans
New Orleans - Garden District (9/26)
We arrive in New Orleans around 10:30 AM today. We find a hotel and check in. Then it is time for activities. We book a walking tour of the Garden District, have lunch at a local eatery in the French Quarter, then it is off for the walking tour. On the way back from the tour, we look through several antique shops along Royal in the French Quarter. These shops had very expensive stuff.
Now for the Garden district Photos.
Some of the photos did not turn out. We saw Anne Rice's house and Archie Mannings house, but those photos did not take.
Most of these houses were built prior to the Civil War. They are beuatiful and have been well maintained. There appear to be many other streets of similar houses.
The building below currently contains various shops. It was originally built by 2 ladies as a roller rink in the late 1800's to capitalize on people traveling between to attractions in the New Orleans area. The ladies lost there shirts on that deal.
Below is a cemetery in the garden district. It has been featured in several films, as have several of the houses in the Garden District. These tombs are reusable. After a year and a day, the shelf in the tomb can be reused. At that time, the remains are all ash and bone (and the bone itself is also turning to ash). Each tomb is a deeded plot of ground. Some of these structures can contain as many as 3 different shelves (tombs). This was interesting.
