Day 7 was Thanksgiving day, so it was pretty quiet, but we were able
to book a last-minute two-hour bus tour around the city, to see the parts
outside of the French Quarter.
Here is a statue of the founder of New Orleans, Jean Baptiste de Bienville,
along with the requisite shout-out to the Catholic church and the heathen
natives.
Here in the Ninth Ward, you see how high the water got, and how the houses
were marked as they were checked. The formatting includes what date it
was checked, what group did the checking, how many bodies, how many live
pets, how many dead pets, etc.
You can't bury people here because of the high water table, and the Catholic
Church won't let you cremate them, so the method of choice is to inter
the body in one of these mausoleums for a year and a day to dessicate
the corpse, then beat it into small pieces and push it down into the hole
in the back side of the structure.
Location. Location. Location.
Reserve your space now. People are dying to get in here.
Decorated for Halloween!?
General Beuregard, one of the heroes of the South.
Our hotel in New Orleans.
Thanksgiving Day, we went over to Harrah's Casino (center), one of the
few things that was open.
They had a John Besh restaurant, and we had this lovely steak and frites.
