After a lovely time in Texas, we trekked down to New Orleans for a night to experience the famous nightlife of the city. During our short 16 hour trip, we managed to squeeze in a fair amount of what the historic city has to offer. Theresa enjoyed authentic Gumbo - which looks a whole lot like baby food according to Claire - and said it lived up to the hype. We then worked our way over to Bourbon Street - a street famous for live music and a whole lot of drinking. New Orleans (or NOLA for the locals) is one of the only cities where drinking on the street is allowed - so of course we had to partake and yes we bought the unnecessarily large souvenir cup because when in NOLA....
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| Hanging out in the French Quarter |
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| Gumbo! Nommm |
The city is truly filled to the brim with live music and after a lot of wandering about, we finally decided on this 10 member jazz group. They were awesome! Rather than take a taxi back to our hotel, we splurged and took a bicycle taxi. It is just like a grown up bicycle burlee, all the fun but none of the work.
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| Whata band! |
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| Haha still can't believe we look one of the bike taxis |
Before leaving town, we made a quick stop to Cafe Du Monte to have their world famous beignets - which are essentially smaller funnel cakes. They were delicious (albeit very messy) - thanks Shuman family for the recommendation! Although our time in NOLA was super short, we had a lovely time and hope to be able to visit it in the future!!
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