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Originally Posted by TXLove
Great thread...looks like fun.... Lol @ no skyline shots and the first pic is bam a skyline shot!
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Hey, you didn't see the disclaimer about me being drunk?
killaviews, you should definitely go next year. It was a lot of fun, and there was plenty of good food!
I've been debating whether to share these, but a few days after the po-boy fest I went with my cousin's family to see the Audubon Aquarium for the first time since Katrina. Here are a few shots from that trip.
Crossing at the Algiers Point ferry, I saw this gigantic Norwegian flagged beast making its way up the mighty Mississippi River:
Ubiquitous cross-river St. Charles Cathedral shot:
Some skyline shots to make the building gods happy:
Since this is Louisiana, those banners in front of the Raptor explain how their sharp teeth were designed by god for sheering bark from trees, and how they only started to eat meat after the fall and then were wiped off the face of the earth in the flood. At least that is what I thought I'd read. Fortunately, the people who run the aquarium aren't retarded.
This isn't popularly known, but the Algiers Point ferry is the 2009 World Drifting Champion. See it getting sideways?
I didn't get many good fish photos. I got this cool one of a bird, though.
And this model of a shark obviously on a Cajun diet:
And an albino alligator on the same diet:
Another gigantic tanker running up the Mississippi. The color is funky because I couldn't get the white balance right due to the weird window tint on the aquarium windows.
I didn't know there was a strong Jewish community in New Orleans. The only thing I can think of is that since the national WWII museum is in New Orleans, they felt it necessary to commission a modest Holocaust memorial.
The train that never ends.
It ended after 10-15 minutes.
I'm bored of this area, but here is a shot with roses.
This clown spent like 45 minutes driving around the French Quarter bleeping his horn and encouraging people to shout "ten and oh, baby!"
He's in the French Market rather than on the street, but this is the first street preacher of the afternoon.
Moderate crowds in the French Market.
I don't get it.
My 10 year old cousin loves the color of this furniture.
Either this person has mastered invisibility to go along with clairvoyance, or she's out buying another daiquiri.
This is the most famous guard cat in the French Quarter. Seriously. Check Flickr.
This stuff was good.
I love New Orleans because of the contrast between the old and the new.
Street preacher number two of the afternoon. Nice hat. I wanted to tell him that Jesus saved me from Katrina (I was in Iraq at the time), but decided to leave him alone.
Looking up the NOLA WTC's skirt:
Honestly, I had a rather large daiquiri, so I took this picture wondering if someone would come to tell me something. Turns out that in tourist towns like New Orleans, they're less willing to call everyone with a camera a terrorist.
Departing the CBD for the ferry trip back to Algiers. (True story, Flickr had a "flickr blog" thing about old photos of Algiers. I clicked on it expecting to see pictures of the one I was headed back to on this ferry. Imagine my surprise when they were pictures of a place in Africa! lol)
A few days later, we went to the New Orleans Museum of Art in City Park to check out the Disney exhibit with the 10 year old and the 4 year old. If you live in New Orleans and are thinking about going, don't. You'll pay $8 if you're a Louisiana resident and $16 if you're not just to see an advertisement for Disney's next cartoon movie. Half of the exhibit was cool old original artwork from old films, the other half was nonsense pushing this year's upcoming movie about some little girl who lives in the French Quarter.
Here are some shots from the way out there.
Homeless folks at the mission waiting for food.
They gave these jokers authority over more than just the bridge. Now they patrol and enforce code on a big chunk of the Westbank expressway.
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