On Friday we had roasted tomatoes and three cheese frittata at the B & B - yum!
Norma and Miguel picked me up and we went off to see plantations. I am a sucker for big southern mansions like I should have been born in the 1890s sipping lemonade on the porches of these great houses.
We went to Oak Alley plantation first and it was gorgeous. It was a sugarcane planation so their was a lot of information about how sugarcane was grown and harvested. The big house was a gift from Jacques Telesphore Roman to his bride Celina. The Alley of Oaks is a quarter mile alley of 300 year old Virginia Live Oaks. There are 14 on each side 80 feet apart.
Next we headed to Laura plantation - a creole planation based on detailed memoirs of life in 1805. The tales of Br'er Rabbit were first recorded.
On Sunday we had potato casserole, scrambled eggs and a biscuit for breakfast and I flew to Houston to start the next phase of my trip.
Norma and Miguel picked me up and we went off to see plantations. I am a sucker for big southern mansions like I should have been born in the 1890s sipping lemonade on the porches of these great houses.
We went to Oak Alley plantation first and it was gorgeous. It was a sugarcane planation so their was a lot of information about how sugarcane was grown and harvested. The big house was a gift from Jacques Telesphore Roman to his bride Celina. The Alley of Oaks is a quarter mile alley of 300 year old Virginia Live Oaks. There are 14 on each side 80 feet apart.
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| slave cabins |
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| slave cabins |
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| sugar kettle |
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| the upper level porch |
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| view from the porch |
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| view from the porch |
Next we headed to Laura plantation - a creole planation based on detailed memoirs of life in 1805. The tales of Br'er Rabbit were first recorded.
It was a really hot day, but we enjoyed it!
Saturday
They served croissant french toast and bacon at the B & B this morning. I walked up to the WWII museum and it was
great. It is known as one of best
museums in the US and it did not disappoint.
I also saw the 4D movie Beyond all borders produced by Tom Hanks. The exhibits “The Road to Tokyo” and “The Road to Berlin” were really good… and depressing. I was pretty emotional the whole time and
struck by how a few crazy people can turn the whole world upside down.
I walked around down by the Quarter and saw
a musician playing “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”. My dad loves that song and we grew up singing
it all the time.
I love just walking around and looking at all the New Orleans architecture.
A police officer in NOLA
died recently and they had a huge police funeral for him – streets were closed
down as a ton of police motorcycles and state trooper cars went down the
street. I went down to the French Market
and got some apple beignets, but they were not as good as the beignets at Café
Du Monde J
I went to church with Norma and Miguel at
the Cathedral, had some jambalaya with them, then went back to my B&b.
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