NOLA

We started off our first day in New Orleans with a stop at Cafe du Monde. Apparently it is THE place to get beignets, and we were very pleased. We will definitely be getting some more of those before we leave.

After breakfast we took a little tour of the French Quarter. I really love the architecture there and all the buildings are so cute! There a lots of cute colors and they all have sweet balconies.

If the city wasn't so dirty, I would totally consider living in one of these apartments.

After wandering around, we went over to the French Market which is so fun to walk through. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture, but it's basically a bunch of vendors selling venetian masks, gator heads, and other local souvenir-type stuff.

One of our first weekends here was Decadence, which is some sort of gay pride festival. Anyway, they put these all over the sidewalks and I thought they were hilarious so I just had to put it on here.

After our little tour of the French Quarter, we walked over to the aquarium to meet some friends. We had a hard time finding somewhere to sit because there were lots of nice guys like this taking up the benches.

They have a sweet package where you can go to the aquarium, zoo, insectarium, and imax for only $19 which is a killer deal, so after the aquarium we went over the imax and finally saw the new Batman movie (and loved it of course!). We were pretty tired by the time we got home from our busy day, but we had a lot of fun exploring the city!