Here are but a few of the interesting buildings and features that we saw.
Our tour ended at Jackson Square, today the opening day of the French Quarter Music Festival. This festival brings in around 450,000 visitors for the weekend!
Luckily this was Thursday and the crowds were bearable and you could move around to see the acts. There were five open air stages in operation plus a couple of dozen other stages in clubs throughout the French Quarter.
We roamed the waterfront "Moonwalk" which had two stages in operation right along the shore of the Mississippi River. We stayed a while to watch one of the performances and really enjoyed it.
We found out they were performing at one of the local clubs and made a point to go there to see them perform in the evening.
After touring the waterfront, it was early afternoon and what better way to fill one's appetite was to dive into a Muffuletta from the Central Grocery. We decided to split one. We should have split half of one. They are a round sandwich which I would put at the equivalent of a 24" Subway Sandwich!
From there we waddled off to do a tour of the Museum which had an excellent exhibit of Hurricane Katrina and the devastation that it had brought to this area. From there we slowly shuffled through the Quarter taking in the sights of street performers and shops.
After being on our feet for 7 hours, we took an hour break in our hotel room before striking out for a "light" supper of Tapas at Mojitio's where our favourite band from the festival was performing until 9 pm. We had a very nice dinner of local flavoured apps and great entertainment by the band.
Our return trip to the hotel took us the entire length of Burbon St. which was starting to get really crowded with all of the frivolities that one would expect at Mardi Gras.
This is how you encourage strings of beads to be thrown from the balconies .....
We went home bead-less and tired from many miles of walking today.
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