December 26, 2015

If you take a balloon to the bottom of a swimming pool and let the air out of it, it will shoot out of the pool like a bullet.  In New Orleans, because it is below sea level, that is what happens when you bury a coffin in the ground and the water table rises.  They figured that out a long time ago, so they do not bury people there.  They entomb them in very elaborate above ground vaults. This is one of the oldest cemeteries in New Orleans – St Louis Cemetery. It is rumored that the Vampire Lestat put many of these people here:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This tomb has a locked gate.  These people are not getting out.

 

 
It is a Catholic cemetery and there is a statue of Mother Teresa.

 

 

She asked me to take a selfie with her.

 

Here is one of the famous New Orleans streetcars. I rode it all over the city. I was looking for the one named Desire, but I couldn’t find her.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You have to eat seafood in New Orleans. This is one meal I had. It was a combination of bayou traditions: Cajun jambalaya, craw fish etouffée, red beans and rice and chicken and Andouille sausage gumbo.  Mmmm …..