New Orleans: Recap 2

On the second day of our New Orleans trip we started off with a reading at Bottom of the Cup Tea Room. It's a place that's been offering psychic readings for over 80 years...unfortunately mine was totally bogus. Every single thing she said was the opposite from my life. $32 wasted in 10 minutes :(

After walking around and taking the French Quarter in, we were off on another cemetery tour. This time it was the St. Louis Cemetary #1 - a Catholic cemetery and the oldest in New Orleans. The tour was provided by French Quarter Phantoms and started with some history about the Quarter then continued onto the cemetery. Known for housing the tomb of Nicholas Cage (yup, that's where he wants to rest in peace) and Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau the tour was quite popular. The downside to that was not being able to catch up before the guide would talk about certain area/tombs. I wished he'd have made sure all of his guests could see and hear.

Nicholas Cage's tomb

Marie Laveau's tomb

While I enjoyed this tour, I liked the Layfayette Cemetery #1 hosted by Haunted History tours better.

Later that night we went on a drinking tour, but I'll skip that for now because it'll be it's own post.

Instead I'll skip to JazzFest day. A total bummer! We were there to see Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers and Cee Lo. It was SO packed that we got to listen to a few songs from Cee Lo before heading over to Tom Petty's stage (an hour early). By the time we got there it was too crowded to even move, so we literally sat in a ditch where we couldn't see and could barely hear. After an hour of them playing we made the decision to leave. With the amount of people there we knew getting a cab was going to be painful. Since we left early we only had to wait in the cab queue for about 45 minutes. Such a disappointment.

Check back tomorrow for my swamp/plantation tour recap!