New Orleans + Luxury cinema

It's our last night in New Orleans before we move on tomorrow so I thought I would use the excellent web connection to give a quick update.

A sample of the shop signs in the French Quarter

The iron balconies are beautiful and often covered in plants or Mardi Gras decorations

We have done some serious exploring of the French Quarter which has a really interesting atmosphere full of artists, musicians (mainly jazz) and good food. There are some tourist traps (with a very New Orleans twist) but turn round the next corner and you find a group of locals enjoying some street music or fresh coffee. The party spirit even invaded us last night as we had some very brightly coloured, highly alcoholic, iced cocktails from a washing machine (if I remember rightly the bar was called the Voodoo Lounge but it is a bit of a blur).

There is one thing that has put a bit of a crimp in our jazz appreciation, the heat. Since we have arrived the temperature has been in the high 90's and is still 91 degrees at 2130. Our poor british constitutions are not made for this heat so we have been finding indoor activities to get some air conditioned relief.

Which leads nicely to the second part of the title, the luxurious cinema we visited this afternoon. High back leather seats, in seat food and drinks service, gourmet food, call button. Not that we used any of the above but it was very different to a friday night on Broad Street having pop corn thrown at you and having your view obscured by someone texting in the next row, the security guard on the door with the taser would put a stop to that. Off to get some rest now lets see where tomorrows road leads us (I hear rumours that the temperature has been hitting 100 in Texas, ouch).

Aimee trying not to evaporate in the morning sun