Oct 23, 2018 Adventures in the South 6 - New Orleans

It rained, rained, rained all day. We left the van at the hotel, and took a Lyft ride across a bridge over the Mississippi River into New Orleans. Destination: the National World War II Museum.  The first stop was to see my dad's brick, which we bought last year. After it was installed, they sent us the location. And it is a prime location too - near two trees, the flagpole, and the street.

We spent the entire rainy day in the museum. There were a lot of interactive things, and many films, and several buildings. When you enter, you are randomly assigned a dog tag, which lets your follow a soldier (or sailor or marine) through his WWII career. Interestingly, I was assigned someone I once met! Barney Old Coyote, a Crow man who had dealings with the Southwest Museum. We ran out of time and didn't make it to the Boeing building that houses six airplanes, and we didn't see the submarine movie, but we were pretty thorough through the rest of the museum. A friend told me it takes a whole day, and she was right. The temporary exhibit about Bob Hope and his USO tours was great, he did so much to keep up troop morale during the war.

After staying at the museum until closing, we took another Lyft trip which was ridiculously long, it took nearly an hour to go the approximately 5 miles to the French Quarter. It was rush hour, but the driver also didn't exactly follow the GPS instructions. We saw a lot of back streets on our way.  We visted some shops, tasted some pralines, had some typical and wonderful New Orleans food for dinner, and we topped it off with a stop at Cafe du Monde. Magnifique!