December 11 - New Orleans

The weather turned colder so we had to "rug up" before heading to the French Quarter.  The park has a shuttle so we hoped on - it was great not having to worry about traffic and parking, which is very expensive, $5.00 per hour. 

We found a nice place to have dinner "Desire".  Strange name but the food was great.  Dalton had a bowl of Gumbo to start and he is still talking about how good it was and I, trying to be adventurous, had pasta with Alligator meat balls and no, it didn't taste like chicken.  It was mixed with beef so...

We went into a Jazz Bar, they didn't play Jazz, which was good for me, but Dalton was disappointed as that is what he was there for.  The band playing was a group called "Siren", they played all the music that we both liked, we even danced a little.  We stayed so late, missed the shuttle and had to take a cab home.  We really enjoyed ourselves, the first time we had been out so late in a long while.

Going to the French Quarter and having drinks in an Irish Pub.  This is O'Brien's' patio

They are famous for their Hurricanes, they are very good, potent too!

Dalton enjoying his beer

Siren in action

Dalton got dragged up on stage, he had some good moves!

December 12

We took a riverboat trip on the Natchez, a steam driven paddle wheeler.  The sun was out and it was a lovely day.  I did expect that we would go down the Mississippi River but as it was so slow we hardly made it out of the harbour.  We did have a guide that explained lots and pointed out all things of interest, although the levies are so high so you could only see the tops of the homes. 

After arriving back at the wharf we decided to go exploring some of the places we saw from the river.   One of the things being "Harrah's Casino and since we haven't been in one since Ontario, we decided we should give it a shot.  Lucky us, we came out with what we went in with plus a little more.  Today we are not as energetic as we were last night, I wonder why, anyway we had dinner back on Bourbon Street, not as good as yesterday and for some reason the music seemed extra loud so tonight we were in time for the shuttle.


December 13 - Leaving Louisiana

We had an easy drive today, roads were pretty good, and not much traffic.  There is a lot of water in this State and therefore many roads are causeways,  quite an engineering feat to say the least.  We arrived in Beaumont, Texas in the afternoon and booked into the Gulf Coast RV Resort, nice place, well kept and they have free breakfasts every morning from 7 - 9.  It is a Passport America Park which makes it even better.  Half Price.