Day 4 Transportation Around New Orleans

Decided this morning to buy a day pass to ride the St. Charles Line trolley car as much as we want for a day.  Tickets are $5 a person. Got on trolley car and purchased our tickets from the driver. 

We got off the train in Lafayette and walked through a cemetery. Every Cemetery is different in one way or another.  The impression given by above ground tombs in New Orleans cemeteries have resulted in their being known as "Cities of the Dead."
Anne Rice frequently uses Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 for locations in her stories~ the Mayfair witches' family tomb for instance.

This above ground burial is for all members of the Jefferson Fire Co. #22.

Stone wall within the cemetery was very unusual.

This burial is for the Society for the Destitute Orphan Boys. 
Leaving the cemetery and walking on down the street to the Garden Distract.

I loved the walk through Garden District.  The homes within this area are absolutely beautiful.  I saw many many trees with allot of mardi gras beads hanging from them.  Guess the beads will stay in the trees not less a big wind storm comes and blows them out. LOL

Marlon and I strolled through the Garden District and admired the huge plantation homes. Allot of the homes were guarded by beautiful wrought iron fences.  The fences are unique to the homes.

Colonel Short's Villa

This photo is of Anne Rice's home in the Garden District. This house was used as the setting for the Witching Hour novel.

A home that had some wrought iron fence around it was labeled corn stalk.

There is a lovely story of the early owner who brought his young bride to live here far from her native Iowa. To soften some of her loneliness for the waving fields of corn back home, he caused this replica to be made in graceful iron so that from her front gallery she could forever see something of her native land.

Walked back to catch the St. Charles line trolley car and head on down the line to eat lunch.

Took the trolley car back to the French Market where we shopped and scheduled a tour with the horse and carriage ride.  I noticed that allot of the shops have things pertaining to Voodoo.

After shopping it was time for our horse and carriage ride around the French Quarters.  Our drivers name was Charlie and our mules name was Sugar Daddy.  They use mules instead of horses because the society for animals said it was cruel to use horses to pull loads of people when they are not built for that.  They were informed they must use mules which are known for this type of work load.

The tour through the French Quarters was very informative.  We found out where Coop's Place is, this is a restaurant that Marlon's wants to eat dinner at.  He is going to get shrimp Jambalaya.  We walked down the street and stood in line to eat at Coop's Place.  The place was small on the  inside and not that clean.  The people coming out told us the wait is worth it. 

Time for dessert now we walked down to Cafe Du Monde where they have the best lattes around and beignets in the land.Waiting in line was well worth it I love their coffee and sweets.

Beignets are finger licking good. After eating and drinking our coffees we walked down to Jackson Andrew Park to get a night time shot of the park and the church.  We also noticed the place location of where the ball is going to be dropped on New Years Eve.  The location is on top of the old Jax Building which used to produce Jax beer.

so tired and ready to go home, I took some pictures of some nice decorated New Orleans homes.  Also got a picture of the oldest bar in the United States.

Oldest bar in the United States