Day 18

Our day started at 8:00. We caught the cable car to the Lafayette Cemetery.

Lafayette cemetery was a nice cemetery, keeping with the New Orleans fashion all of the graves were in tombs above ground, and although people say this is due to flooding and extream weather, I cant see how this is true. In theory, it makes some sense put a body in a stone tomb above ground and it cannot get to the point where you have the wrong kind of encounter with your deisisesd loved one, but when given another second to think about it, this wouldn't happen if you put a slab of marble on top of the casket after burying it the normal 6 ft, but hey mabey we don't understand the extent of the storms they face. So as we walked we noticed that there were old graves that were actual graves but with about a foot raise, which would do absolutely nothing. It was cool to think about.

After that, we caught a cable car to the WW2 museum. Not only is this museum considered one of the worlds best. And from what we saw it earned the title.

From exhibit to exhibit the rooms changed immensely, almost like how a set of a movie or play changes. When we were learning about the Japanese invasion of China we were in a bamboo forest and learning about pearl harbor and the naval side of the war we were in a boat. The attention to detail when it came to this was astounding. When it came to the actual exhibits themselves, they were extremely extensive. For each exhibit, there was lots to read and lots of real artifacts to support the reading. It was the perfect War museum.

Following our excursion, we went back to explore the French quarter until our steamboat cruise that day. This trip was less fruitful because we walked down a much more wealthy street, instead of Voodoo shops and casually beautiful architecture there were, expensive jewelry and antique stores as well as buildings that were trying to stand out. It was interesting to see this demonstration of how visible it is when a neighborhood or street is more wealthy than another.

We then proceeded to get some lunch, I had barbeque shrimp as an appetizer and alligator sausage Po-Boy as a meal. My dad had Grilled alligator bites as well as Baked ousters. After Lunch we headed to the cruise, the steamboat was quite a cool experience.

We sat on top of the boat and looked out over the river. Although easily the slowest moving cruise we have been on, worth it because of we road on the only working steamboat in New Orleans. Along the cruise, we passed a lot of things including the worlds second biggest sugar factory in the world and many vessels for the U.S. and Canadian Navy.

Once off the boat, we returned to our humble abode and ordered crappy (really crappy) Chinese food and went to bed early to prepare for the early flight the next day.