I had great intentions of keeping a blog this year. However, it appears it has been almost a full year since I have last posted. So I guess that didn't happen. But I've watched my two awesome sister-in-laws regularly keep me updated on their lives through their blogs, and I'd like to try and follow their example.
I wanted to post about my activities this year in chronological order. As I got behind, I couldn't post about the latest events, because I still hadn't posted about stuff 3 months ago. Yeah, I have issues.
Anyway, in March, I accompanied GR to New Orleans for a conference. He attended the conference during the day and I toured around the city. I discovered Beignets at Cafe du Monde are delicious, there are lots of boats in New Orleans, the dead are buried above ground in New Orleans and people will do crazy things for money.
See the pics below:
Above ground burials. If I remember correctly, the bodies are put on "shelves" within the tombs, and ideally, they break down to make room for more bodies. Kind of gross, but necessary as New Orleans is above sea level. This is from a Voodoo Walking Tour I took to St. Louis Cemetery #1
I'm not sure how well you can see this but that is a dog in a casket. The person is asking for money to bury his dog. However, after a minute or so, to the dog moved!! He is really alive just really well trained. And for the record, I did pay a dollar.
We took a boat tour to this state park (at least I think its a state park). A crazy old battle took place, though I already have forgotten the details. The trees (shown below) are so old its possible that they witnessed said crazy old battle.
