A few things we learned!

This is a picture of downtown from the freeway. It's a pretty big city. Plenty of homeless people, street performers, and even a casino in the heart of downtown.
Curtis has been dying to play after watching 100's of girls play it for the past few weeks so we tee'd it up at a local course for $8 bucks each! (the only thing cheap in New Orleans)
This is a picture of the St. Louis Cathedral in the French Quater across from Jackson Square (a big square park) It's taken right before our Vampire tour.
Look closely, it didn't come through too great, but its a giant shadow of Christ cast onto the back of the church. Kind of creepy when you're on a vampire tour.

Our tour: So we highly recommend doing the Vampire Tour. Do a little research first so you can ask good questions. This tour guide knew his vampires. The stories were great and we'll share them with you all over dinner sometime cause i don't think i could type all the information, but they are really creepy and really cool. The tour also gives you history of the french quarter and how New Orleans was founded and built. A short version of one of the stories is that in the Ursuline convent of the nuns in 1720 right near the mississippi river there is supposedly vampires living in the attic of the convent and that the church is responsible for storing them there. A ship suppose to be carrying young girls from france for the workers in new orleans to marry, showed up to shore with no women (fact-they docked in Mobile, Alabama and stayed there because of fear of the men in New orleans) the only thing the ship left was a ton of coffin like boxes. The church officials at the time immediately took control of the "boxes" and stored them in a nearby facility. A riot broke out one night when rumors spread that the church was hiding whatever was in the boxes so the men broke into the priests' chambers and demanded to know because it was driving them mad. The priest told them that they would take the "boxes" and store them in the attic and lock them up. The convent has-4 shuttered windows on the top level. Not only are the top leveled window shutters shut, but sealed...with 100 blessed...yes blessed by a preist bolts. Each shutter a 100. "I wonder why?" probably cause they are housing vampires and trying to keep them inside so they wont kill. It's known to see one of the shutters open in the early hours of the morning before dawn and then closed during the day. (supposedly) and it's also known that if you ask a member of the staff at the convent what is in the attic they will dodge the question and move along or inform you that it was once sleeping quarters and no longer is. So what did Curtis and I do???...we took the tour of the convent the next day and asked that question and got a short reply of "nothing is housed on the 3rd floor, but the second is archives and outside is the gardens.." So kind of mysterious. The convent is no longer used nor the church connected to it, but it serves as a museum. Really cool tours and sightseeing. We had a great time. This weekend is the French Quarter festival so there is music everywhere and food, and tons of paintings for sale (similar to arts festival in Park city, but a ton bigger and palm readers/ tarot card readers everywhere) Must see city for anyone... Stay in the Garden District..bit safer and very pretty.

So you think gas is expensive???? Try milk in Louisiana... $4.42 a gallon for skim. Well if you know Curtis he has to have his milk, so we went broke again just buying it. We'll be pushing the car now so he can have milk. JK.