Tag: French Quarter

Halloween 2015

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October 31, 2015

We started out October 31st, 2015 by hanging out for a bit in the French Quarter.   After that we did a little E fit and watched a row team practicing in the canal by our camp site in New Orleans.

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Then started the drive.  A storm was rolling in, so we hooked up and took off toward The Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas.  We’ll tell you all about our mining experience tomorrow.

We crossed the mighty Mississippi yesterday in the rain in the Baton Rouge Port.

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One of the most exciting things for the day was captured in the picture below.  We were in what seemed to be not such a nice area of a small town in Arkansas.  We took and alley (which might have been our first mistake) to which we ended up stuck.  We were stuck because of a low laying electrical wire.  But, being married to such a smart guy, we figured it out and did surely the smart thing!  We held the wire up with a stick and drove under it!

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New Orleans

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October 30, 2015

Today we spent our day in New Orleans. We experienced some live street bands. One spot we went to had a super good violin player. She was playing with a girl who was playing the guitar.

We saw magician on the street doing some really cool magic tricks too. We stopped at a few shop to get key chains. We also got some masks. There are a lot of homeless people in New Orleans. And quite a lot of crazies too.  

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We saw the statue of Andrew Jackson and his horse, Sam Patch. It was kind of cool seeing it because we learned quite a bit about Andrew Jackson on this trip. We went to a graveyard that had the tombs above ground. Even though it was closed, we still looked through the gate.

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My dad helped a man push his “hot dog” cart down the road because it was really heavy and he was doing it alone.

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Next we went out to eat at a restaurant and we had “poor boys” it was a lot better than it sounded. They are just a sandwich/sub. Apparently that’s what your supposed get when you go to New Orleans. On our way out we got to people watch from the car. There are some strange people in this town so the boys had a lot of questions. Glad that we are only spending one day here.

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– grace