Corky was absolutely brilliant when she suggested we get up at the crack of dawn, before the drunks, and get a photo of Mat partying on
Bourbon Street. It was just us and the beer trucks on the just-rained-on street. Some
Mardi Gras beads on Mat made him look just like one of the revelers we'd seen the night before! Even though Mardi Gras was
so last month we saw tourists everywhere clad in pounds of cheap plastic beads. There were broken strands of beads in the street, beads in trees, beads on people's doors...
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| "Throw me somethin, Mistah!" Mat's been partying on Bourbon Street, New Orleans |
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| Mardi Gras beads in trees: tossed there by accident during the parade? Or a decorative statement? |
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| Mardi Gras beads everywhere! |
Safely back in the parking garage, Mat waited as Corky and I had yet another "Human Day" in New Orleans. This time we were dying to try riding a real
New Orleans Streetcar out to the famed
Garden District to see some amazing homes. It was only $1.25 each way and the weather was perfect! The rest of this post is about houses of the rich and famous and more New Orleans food so if you only want to see Mat photos, please skip to the next post -thanks, y'all!
We did a walking tour of the Garden District, thanks to the map in my
Frommer's New Orleans 2011 guide book, and gawked at the gorgeous enormous homes. A few favorites were the houses of movie stars,
John Goodman,
Sandra Bullock, and the super popular
Interview with the Vampire and
The Witching Hour author,
Anne Rice. I just happened to have an Anne Rice book with me...
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| According to my Frommer's guide, this home belongs to John Goodman! |
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| ...And Sandra Bullock's gorgeous Garden District Home |
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| The famous Anne Rice First Street home in the Garden District, New Orleans |
After a long day of walking and gawking we went back to the French Quarter to partake in a feast of Gulf seafood at the
Acme Oyster House. We thought we were being heroic as well as boosting the local seafood economy...and you could hardly taste the
oil spill! No, really, it was "completely safe" and totally delicious. I am glad that we'll be eating Gulf seafood only a handful of times though...
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| A dozen raw Gulf oysters on the half shell at Acme Oyster House |
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| Crab & corn chowder and crawfish po' boy at Acme Oyster House |
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