new orleans | Jaime Writes

Here are the rest of the pictures from our trip to Louisiana. Unfortunately a lot of the pictures from New Orleans came out not so great, and then my battery started to die (and I didn’t have a charger). Which left me with not a ton of great pictures. Guess that’s just a reason to back, right?

Saw this on a bin (and later on a truck). Just thought it was a fun slogan

The view from the hotel in New Orleans was not quite as nice as the view in Baton Rouge

A view of the Superdome from the rooftop pool at our hotel in New Orleans.

One of the best parts of the trip was taking a cemetery tour. Although it was a miserable day (95 and super humid), the tour was great. Our guide was named Bartlett and gave us tons of history of the city. It was nice to have an honest tour (New Orleans was apparently a pretty crappy place to live when it was founded!). Here are some photos from the tour.

A statue in the St. Louis #1 cemetery in New Orleans

This tomb from the cemetery was covered in “XXX”. According to our tour guide, people are supposed to leave an offering a voodoo tomb and make a wish, then mark the tomb with “XXX”. If the wish comes true, then you return to circle the “XXX”.

Nicolas Cage owns this tomb in this cemetery.

This tomb was one meant for groups of people, in this case, Italians. This is for people who cannot afford their own personal family tomb.

Another of those voodoo tombs.

The tomb of Marie Laveau, the most famous and most powerful voodoo priestess.

Later that night we did a ghost tour around the French Quarter. We got to see lots of supposedly haunted locations, but again there was lots of history. Learned a lot about the history of the homes as well as the people who lived there and helped shape the city. Unfortunately, the tour was at night, so lots of the pictures didn’t come out so great. We didn’t see any ghosts, but we did get to check out the buildings.