So here it is, the trip Andrea and I took to New Orleans. We left Monday morning, August 7th and planned to be back before the Bristol faire opened the next Sunday. Currently, it's Friday, August 11th and we're on our way back. It's 5:00pm and we're still in Mississippi. Methinks we'll be awfully tired if we do make it to faire tomorrow. Anyhow, I could write lots of stuff about our adventure to the Big Easy. I'll attempt to do some of that throughout the image gallery. However, we also took quite a bit of video footage and that may be a better way to tell our tale. For now, here are the images and such!

As Always... click on the image for a larger view...

An albino alligator
After finishing up at the Aquarium of the Americas, we strolled over to Riverwalk Mall to grab some lunch. From there, we took a free ferry across the river to get to Blaine Kearn's Mardi Gras World. Unfortunately, at this point, my camera decided to run out of battery power and I left extra batteries back at my car (silly, I know). Andrea took some pictures and hopefully I'll add those to these pages; however, I haven't gone back to update any pages I said I would at this point, so I wonder if I'll do so now. Mardi Gras World is in a large warehouse where props and floats are built year round for the festive occasion each year. It was an interesting tour where we who have not been to Mardi Gras can witness the splendor of the floats first hand. When we returned to the French Quarter, rain hit. We were getting pretty hot and tired anyway, so we ventured back to the hotel to relax and cool off. It had been great day... and a great trip.
	Andrea and a wedding cake flavored "snoball." Bleah!	A fountain by riverwalk	I took this to read it later
Andrea in a favorite place	E'en the birds like to break the law
Jackson Square from the Mississippi River	A rainy end to Thursday	We returned to the Vieux Carre (French Quarter) Thursday night after the rain stopped to get some dinner at a place called "Petunia's." It had stopped raining and cooled, so we strolled around for what seemed to be a little while. Finally, we asked someone for the time and discovered it was one in the morning. Whoops! We cruised on back home, fell asleep, and woke up at 10:30. Check out was at 11:00, so we had to rush. Once again we stopped in the Quarter for breakfast and quickly departed for this long road trip back.

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