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From: Mother in Law
Date: 02-07-2005, 11:35 PM (1 of 11)
| If anyone is interested tomorrow is Mardi Gras in New Orleans. If you can't be here maybe you'd like to read about our crazy antics on this special day here. Take a look at the sites. www.nolalive.com It's our newspaper site The Times Picayune they have a special place you can click on to see the sites in the city from cams all over from Burbuon Street to the French Quarters. Enjoy. I'm staying home and barbecuing. LOL |
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From: mamahoogie
Date: 02-08-2005, 01:24 PM (2 of 11)
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New Orleans is very high on the list of places I most want to visit. In fact, just last week I was looking into the prices of the riverboat ride from St. Louis to New Orleans. Maybe one day! Violet I've decided to live forever - so far, so good.
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From: DorothyL
Date: 02-08-2005, 03:37 PM (3 of 11)
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I've always wanted to go to New Orleans -- but not for Mardi Gras. Maybe when I was younger. But I would love to see the city. I listen to the radio station -- WWOZ I think it is -- on the Internet at dinner time every night. Dorothy |
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 02-08-2005, 03:43 PM (4 of 11)
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Hey Violet, Most people come here to party but this city is rich in culture. The French and Spanish influence here is plentiful. Of Course, they don't call it "the city that care forgot" for nothing. We do know how to party. Now is the time to look at the cams on that site. The streets are full of people partying all over the city. Me I'm home waiting on Hubby to get his clothes on so we can go down and get something to eat and see my new Grandbaby again. She was here this morning and of course I had to hold her for hours. 
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 02-08-2005, 03:46 PM (5 of 11)
| Just a little heads up to all of you who might get a chance to come here. Stay on the main paths where people are abundant. The crime here is on the high side but if you stay in the main stream of people areas you will be fine. Just don't venture out where there is no people around. |
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From: Julia's Nana
Date: 02-08-2005, 05:30 PM (6 of 11)
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My husband gave a presentation at a convention the week before Mardi Gras about ten years ago..........and I got to come along. It was so much fun. We went to several parades and just people watched. We had a great dinner at a german place and walked the French Quarter (in the day time!!). It was somewhat overwhelming the amount of people and a little scary but the police presence was huge! I loved when the parades were over and the street cleaning crews came out and whisk huge mess away. It was great seeing all the school bands march with the parents along the sides. You knew it was something they worked for all year. We were early for one parade and were standing on the sidewalk waiting and a cop came and offered us tickets to sit in the grandstand. I think we must have had "from out of town" written all over us! LOL We loved every minute we spent in your lovely town and hope to come back someday...........but it will be the week before the big day, that was excitement enough! Enjoy! Norma |
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From: MaryW
Date: 02-08-2005, 06:10 PM (7 of 11)
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I have watched Mardi Gras on tv. It looks like a real party time for everyone. I would love to see it just once. Have fun Susie.
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 02-08-2005, 07:10 PM (8 of 11)
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Mary, I'm having fun Mary, I spent most of the day changing out my computers and found out that it wasn't my monitor after all it was a lose wire to the monitor. UGHHHHHHHh My hubby and Grandson wasn't too happy about that. They had to crawl under desk with octopus wires trying to figure out where and what went with what. Poor things  Now I'm all set up again. But this time I have all the good stuff in my sewing room including the fast internet service. All I need now is the right splitter and I'll have my cable to the tv back up and running and I'll be good to go and I'll only have to sit in my sewing room to enjoy it all. Norma, The people watching in NO is the best around. You see all the sites. I worked for an engineering firm that was based in the French Quarters next to the Jax Brewery and I loved working there. The Riverwalk shopping area was just a skip away, the aquarium, the French Market, Decatur Street, Canal Street and All the antique shops along Royal street was within walking distance, not to mention all the food places to eat lunch. Even if you can't affort the nice restaurants here in New Orleans the places the locals frequent are tops and very reasonable. Cafe Masparo across the street from the Jax Brewery is one of the best places to get a Po Boy sandwich, (that's a sandwich made on French Bread in case anyone has never heard of one) Scrumpous!!!! You can get a 12 inch for around 6.00 or 7.00 bucks. Then there is le Madeline's, it's a french pastry place that also has lunch and things. They are really good. They are located at the north corner of the Cabildo and the St Louis Cathedral on Charters Street. I'm so glad you enjoyed your stay here. It's really hot in summer so if anyone wants to come it's best to come here in spring or fall. Our fall is usually in late Oct or the beginning of Nov and our spring is around March and early April. Any time after that and it's too hot. And of couse if you don't mind the weather you come for Mardi Gras, which is usually 40 days not including Sunday's before Easter. We start celebrating with parades two weeks before Mardi Gras and it's one big party after another leading up to the big day. Fat Tuesday. If you come for Mardi Gras and go in the French Quarters wear old tennis because afterwards you will throw them away. Uckkkk And also hold on to your pardner. You will be like sandwich meat pack in the quarters on Bourbon Street especially. If you go anyway where else it's not like that but on Bourbon it's scary. |
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From: mamahoogie
Date: 02-08-2005, 07:42 PM (9 of 11)
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I'm not much of a party person myself - I don't smoke or drink and I'm severely claustaphobic so I avoid crowds so I don't think I'd enjoy being in the middle of Mardi Gras. I would enjoy watching it from a balcony up above but that's about as close as I'd get to it. What I want to see is the real New Orleans, the Quarter, the bayou, the old cemeteries, and old mansions. I just finished reading Nora Roberts book, Midnight Bayou, - excellent book - and it made me want to go to New Orleans even more. Violet I've decided to live forever - so far, so good.
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From: Julia's Nana
Date: 02-08-2005, 11:33 PM (10 of 11)
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We went to a park there.....and I can not remember the name but there were horse drawn carriages all around...(Jackson?).......and bunches of kids with lots of piercing in their lips and body........it was a historic place yet had the modern day influence too. We went to the big shopping center on the river.....is it still there? I know they had a big accident there a few years ago. I just have great memories of that trip.....................thank you for bringing them back! |
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 02-09-2005, 01:26 AM (11 of 11)
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Jackson Square, That's the park in front of the St Louis Cathedral and the Cablido. The name of the shopping center on the river is called the Riverwalk and yes the Bright Field, a ship ran into the wharf area and tore down some of the shops but remarkable no one was hurt bad. No one died considering there were two cruise ships and a paddle wheeler docked at the location that the ship hit. The ship lost steering and the river boat pilot parked that thing right between all the ships and boats. Incredible no one was killed. That happened about 9 years ago. The horse and buggys are fun to ride. We took my oldest Grandson for a ride every weekend when he was around two, to see the horsies in the quarter. One day we decided we were going to take him on the buggies so my husband and I parked the car and got in the buggy with him and before the man could take off from the curb, my Grandson was asleep. We rode the whole ride with him sleeping. There is a lot to do and see here in New Orleans and I think the most beautiful site is up river from New Orleans it's a plantation home called Oak Alley. It's breathe taking. It faces the Mississippi River and has hugh oak trees lining the front entrance of the place. You have to see it to enjoy it's beauty. |
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