The drive to New Orleans was pretty and very interesting. We learned that Lousiana has alot of rice crops! And the town of Crowley claims they are the rice capital of America.
We got into New Orleanus late so we got rest and left in the morning to do a swamp tour. We chose the Jean Lafitte Swamp tour because it was only 15 min from us. The people here are friendly. And we did get to see quite a few gaters and a couple of snakes.
After our almost 2 hour tour, we headed back to get ready to go down to the French Quarter of New Orleans. We took an Uber around 3:30pm so we didn’t have to worry about driving and parking downtown. We started walking around and noticed it was dirty but lots of people where walking around. There wasn’t much music going on, unfortunately. We had expected to see people playing on the streets but that wasn’t the case this time around. We did find a place to get gator bites and frog legs. Both were great and didn’t last long because they were good. 🙂
We ended walking toward the Frenchman street which had some music but not what we expected. We walked around until about 10pm and decided to head back as it felt like the same as any other downtowns.
The next morning we went to a place called the New Orleans Food and Spirits because it was recommended by a local for etouffee. I got the crawfish stew which is the same thing as etouffee. Michael got the oyster po’boy. Both were good but nothing fantastic.
After getting food, we headed to Gulf Shores, AL.