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There's always something happening in the Big Easy (N'Awlins to the locals). Perhaps that's the reason we seemed to spend twenty hours a day on our feet while we were there! If we weren't admiring the stylish and historic French Quarter, sailing across the Mississippi on the Algiers ferry or walking around the devastated lower-ninth ward then we were probably listening to an improbably rowdy jazz band on Frenchman St. We didn't sit down much or get a great deal of sleep but we had a great time!
The French Quarter was traditionally where the Louisiana Cajun plantation owners had their winter homes, attended society functions and dressed up in ridiculous outfits for Mardi Gras. Today, the area is mostly pedestrianised and looks colourful with 18th Century Spanish colonial architecture and intricate wrought-iron balustrades running along the balconies. The grand Jackson Square and St Louis Cathedral are a focal point for the area, and (as we found) are best enjoyed whilst eating Beignet and sipping café au lait in Café du Monde. Combine this with buskers on every street corner, Cajun food and a chilled out vibe and you have yourselves an amazing city!
At night, the area really starts to hot up with the action centred around bar-lined Bourbon Street, for all intents and purposes the largest outdoor nightclub in the world! There's always music in the air, with so many bands on the street competing for your ears that you could (and we did) spend all night watching them, and not even walk through the doors of a proper bar. There are many 'hole-in-the-wall' bars that sell a variety of ridiculously strong drinks (think: '30 varieties of super-strong Daiquiri!', 'Hurricanes containing 150-proof everclear!', or 'Cherry Bombs made from 190-proof anti-freeze!'). If these don't sound strong enough, you can always opt for the ever-popular Tropical Isles Hand Grenade, advertised as 'The most powerful drink in New Orleans!' and served in a fluorescent green hand grenade shaped glass (we kept one as a souvenir of course!)
Bourbon St isn't the best place in the city for music. Rather, we were told once we'd had our fill of Bourbon St drinks to head down to Frenchman St, where a few of the clubs (Maison, the Spotted Cat and the Blue Nile for starters) had consistently excellent bands playing everything from Dixie to washboard Blues. We had three really fun nights out along these lines, always with a different crowd of people that we'd met in the hostel, or even on the streetcar!
On a more serious note, we spent one morning driving and walking around the devastated lower-ninth ward, one of the areas most affected by the post-Katrina floods. The biggest surprise for us was after five years just how many empty houses and plots there still are. Many, many former residents left before or immediately after Katrina swept through the city and haven't yet returned. Of course, you can imagine how this makes rebuilding the area, and perhaps more importantly the community very difficult. No-one yet has come up with a perfect solution, but a group of environmental consultants from California were more than happy to show us around theirs: the world's first affordable, platinum standard green houses. These were very impressive indeed. Think solar panels, recycled water and geothermal air-conditioning (strange for a state where there are no recycling facilities available, everything to eat and drink with is disposable and ...
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1. And another!
2. The drive through 4 states begins
3. Another state border
4. New Orleans downtown in the distance
5. The St Charles streetcar
6. Posh houses in the Garden District
7. Ready for Mardi Gras
8. Mardi Gras mask
9. Cheers! on Bourbon Street
10. One of the many Bourbon Street bands
11. Deserteed house in lower ninth
12. Lower ninth quarter
13. A parade we happened acrosss in lower ninth
14. C**** Street
15. Daiquiri machines
16. The Riverwalk
17. Bourbon Street hole in the wall
18. Jackson Square
19. Buskers and artists in the square
20. Buskers
21. The oldest pub in USA
22. More buskers
23. Beignet and coffee in Cafe du Monde
24. Buskers at Cafe du Monde
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Garden District - New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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An area of the city that features numerous historic homes.
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- ... the walls because it erodes them - apparently they are very protective about their walls On Monday I went further into the Garden District just along the road from the hostel and went on another tour (it started from a bookshop and I couldn't ...
- ... We jumped off the Trolley Car and visited the Garden District 's Lafayette Cemetery ...
- ... The French Quarter was great fun (as was the ghost tour I went on), and the Garden District was gorgeous (it suffered some damage during The Storm as the locals call it, but bar the streetcar it's all back to ...
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- On our walking tour of the Garden District by Thesairs from a blog titled 8 days of exploring...
- Magazine Street in Garden District by C_villa from a blog titled The Big Easy....Always an Experience
- Posh houses in the Garden District by Rachandstu from a blog titled Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez
- A street in the Garden District by Marjorie from a blog titled Good times in N'awlins
- Cemetary in the Garden District by Bekandjesse from a blog titled Let Birthday Week Begin!!!
- Garden District, New Orleans by Theb from a blog titled Nawlins
- More Garden District Beauty by Kitkatgo from a blog titled The Garden District (US&C)
- Garden District House #3 by Johnrandall from a blog titled New Orleans
- Garden District House #1 by Johnrandall from a blog titled New Orleans
- Garden District House #2 by Johnrandall from a blog titled New Orleans
- Garden District homes by Kwmg from a blog titled Cajun Encounter!
- Garden District by Kellyjohn from a blog titled The Big Easy
- Garden District by Bekandjesse from a blog titled Let Birthday Week Begin!!!
The Big Easy lets good times roll for Mardi Gras
The good times have been rolling in New Orleans as America's party city celebrates the end of this year's Mardi Gras parade.
Mardi Gras is a centuries-old tradition with Christian roots marking the start of the 40 days of Lent.
In New Orleans, the festival runs for five days and is known as one of the most drunken and debauched parties in the United States.
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Mardi Gras is French for Fat Tuesday, reflecting the practice of the last night of eating richer, fatty foods before the ritual fasting of the Lenten season.
Mardi Gras arrived in North America as a French Catholic tradition in the late 17th century, when King Louis XIV sent an expedition to defend the territory of Louisiana, which included what are now the U.S. states of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and part of eastern Texas.
The expedition, led by Iberville, entered the mouth of the Mississippi River on the evening of March 2, 1699 (new style), Lundi Gras. The party proceeded upstream to a place on the east bank about 60 miles downriver from where New Orleans is today. This was on March 3, 1699, Mardi Gras, so in honour of this holiday, Iberville named the spot Point du Mardi Gras. Bienville went on to found the settlement of Mobile, Alabama in 1702 as the first capital of French Louisiana. In 1703 French settlers in Mobile established the first organised Mardi Gras celebration tradition in what was to become the United States. The first informal mystic society, or krewe, was formed in Mobile in 1711, the Boeuf Gras Society. By 1720, Biloxi had been made capital of Louisiana. The French Mardi Gras customs had accompanied the colonists who settled there.
In 1723, the capital of Louisiana was moved to New Orleans, founded in 1718. The first Mardi Gras parade held in New Orleans is recorded to have taken place in 1837. The tradition in New Orleans expanded to the point that it became synonymous with the city in popular perception, and embraced by residents of New Orleans beyond those of French or Catholic heritage. Mardi Gras celebrations are part of the basis of the slogan Laissez les bons temps rouler (Let the good times roll).
Celebrations are concentrated for about two weeks before and through Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday (the start of lent in the Western Christian tradition). Usually there is one major parade each day (weather permitting); many days have several large parades. The largest and most elaborate parades take place the last five days of the Mardi Gras season. In the final week, many events occur throughout New Orleans and surrounding communities, including parades and balls (some of them masquerade balls).
The parades in New Orleans are organized by social clubs known as krewes; most follow the same parade schedule and route each year. The earliest-established krewes were the Mistick Krewe of Comus, the earliest, Rex, the Knights of Momus and the Krewe of Proteus. Several modern super krewes are well known for holding large parades and events, such as the Krewe of Endymion (which is best known for naming celebrities as grand marshals for their parades), the Krewe of Bacchus (similarly known for naming celebrities as their Kings), as well as the Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club—a predominantly African American krewe. Float riders traditionally toss throws into the crowds. The most common throws are strings of colorful plastic beads, doubloons (aluminum or wooden dollar-sized coins usually impressed with a krewe logo), decorated plastic throw cups, Moon Pies, and small inexpensive toys, but throws can also include lingerie and more sordid items. Major krewes follow the same parade schedule and route each year.
While many tourists center their Carnival season activities on Bourbon Street and in New Orleans and Dauphin, major parades originate in the Uptown and Mid-City districts and follow a route along St. Charles Avenue and Canal Street, on the upriver side of the French Quarter. Mardi Gras day traditionally concludes with the Meeting of the Courts between Rex and Comus.
Other cities along the Gulf Coast with early French colonial heritage, from Pensacola, Florida; Galveston, Texas; to Lake Charles and Lafayette, Louisiana; and north to Natchez, Mississippi, have active Mardi Gras celebrations.
2019 Q1 LWA/MWA Mardi Gras Event
The 2019 Q1 event will be held Feb 27-28! This year we are proud to support Warriors 4 Wireless as our charity! Check out their website at warriors4wireless.org
We will be back at the Four Points on Bourbon as our host hotel. You will be able to get registered and pick up your wristband when you check in from 3 - 5 pm in the lobby.
Get your masks out and dust them off, we're having a Masquerade Party! The opening soiree, sponsored by Castille Consolidated and SMW, will be held at Jax Brewery in the Riverview Room on Wednesday evening from 7-10 pm. For those of you who would rather do a beautiful face paint mask instead of the traditional one, we will have a face painter set up! Cocktail attire.
For the lunch this year, we are presenting a 5G panel moderated by John McGarvey, Vice President of McGriff Insurance! This will be held in the Salon de Gallier Room at the Four Points from 11 am -2 pm on Thursday. WWLF will be hosting a mini trade show outside, in the lobby, prior to the lunch. Please contact Heidi at the information below if you would like to have a spot at the show. Vertical Bridge is sponsoring a Happy Hour from 3:30 - 6:30 pm at Bourbon Heat! Then, keeping with tradition, we will have our Balcony Event that night from 7 - 10 pm at the Four Points. Our Purple and Green sponsors will have their rooms open and some beads to hand out!
Your all-inclusive ticket will get you in to all of the events (or you can break it into either just lunch or just the balcony at your discretion).
We have sponsorships open now for the balcony event. Contact Heidi at 318-366-9065 or hnelson@hpsllc.us for sponsorship information.
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Stay tuned!! And, as always, Laissez les bons temps rouler!!
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All Honor 2 My #LouisianaCreole Goddess Mother???? Heres some #MelaninHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryMonth Bloodline History of My Maternal side????
#LouisianaCreole people and Creoles of color (All Shades of Melanin)
In the United States, the word Creole refers to people of any race or mixture thereof who are descended from colonial #French La Louisiane and colonial #Spanish Louisiana (New Spain) #AfricanPrisonersOfWar #AmericanIndianPrisonersOfWar ,settlers before the Louisiana region became part of the United States in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase. Both the word and the ethnic group derive from a similar usage, which began in the 16th Century, in the Caribbean that distinguished people born in the French, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies from the various new arrivals born in their respective, non-Caribbean homelands. Some writers from other parts of the country have mistakenly assumed the term to refer only to people of mixed racial descent, but this is not the traditional Louisiana usage. In Louisiana, originally Creole was only used to describe people of French and then Spanish descent who were born in Louisiana and used the term to distinguish themselves from newly arrived immigrants. Later, the terms were differentiated further after the emergence of a newly mixed-race group that began to share the usage of the identity, as well as newly arriving Anglo-Americans lumping whites, mixed and blacks into a general francophone Creole cultural group. The later distinctions were French Creole (European ancestry), Creole of Color (someone of mixed racial ancestry), and sometimes slaves were referred to as Black Creole (meaning someone of primarily African descendant). There were also Spanish Creoles, but most in the city of New Orleans were integrated into the French Creole group as time went on, and ultimately both origins formed an indistinguishable Latin combination. However, Spanish Creoles survive today in Louisiana just outside of the city of New Orleans as the Isleños and Malagueños, both found in southern Louisiana. These distinctions were of the various groups in the Creole culture of Louisiana, especially that of New Orleans. Formally, in the early years of New Orleans, whites of French and Spanish descent were defined as the White Creoles and mixed racial people were described as free people of color and slaves were described as Creole slaves, meaning a possession of the Creoles (full European descent). However, all racial categories of Creoles - from Caucasian, mixed racial, African, to Native American - tended to think and refer to themselves solely as Creole, a commonality in many other Francophone and Iberoamerican cultures, who tend to lack strict racial separations common in United States History and other countries with large populations from Northern Europe's various cultures. This more racially neutral quality still persists to modern day as many Creoles do not use race as factor for being a part of the ethno-culture.
Contemporary usage has broadened the meaning of Louisiana Creoles to describe a broad cultural group of people of all races who share a French and Spanish background. Louisianans who identify themselves as Creole are most commonly from historically Francophone and Hispanic communities. Some of their ancestors came to Louisiana directly from France, Spain and others came via the French and Spanish colonies in the Caribbean and Canada. Many Louisiana Creole families arrived in Louisiana from Saint-Domingue as refugees from the Haitian Revolution, along with other immigrants from Caribbean colonial centers like Santo Domingo and Havana. The center of Creole culture in Louisiana is now focused on a combination between the two European based cultures, along with the Native American and African influences brought on through the centuries.
Spoken Creole is dying with the dissolution of Creole families and continued 'Americanization' in the area. Most remaining Creole lexemes have drifted into popular culture. Traditional French Creole is spoken among those families determined to keep the language alive or in regions below New Orleans around St. James and St. John Parishes where German immigrants originally settled (also known as 'the German Coast', or La Côte des Allemands) and cultivated the land, keeping the ill-equipped French Colonists from starvation during the Colonial Period and adopting commonly spoken French and Creole French (arriving with the exiles) as a language of trade.
Creoles are largely Roman Catholic and influenced by traditional French and Spanish culture left from the first Colonial Period, officially beginning in 1722 with the arrival of the Ursuline Nuns, who were preceded by another order, the sisters of the Sacred Heart, with whom they lived until their first convent could be built with monies from the French Crown. (Both orders still educate girls in 2010). The fiery Latin temperament described by early scholars on New Orleans culture...
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The heart and cultural center of New Orleans is the French Quarter, a must-see for its high energy, rich history, diverse architecture, music, street performers, renowned jazz clubs, lively nightlife and the finest art galleries and restaurants in the city.
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- ... I never experianced service issues at restaurants due to the reported labour shortages and the french quarter /downtown area that we where staying in was not affected that much by Katrina anyways ...
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- More Architecture in the French Quarter by Jillandethan from a blog titled Exploring the French Quarter
- Jackson Square, Historic French Quarter by Marjorie from a blog titled Good times in N'awlins
- Typical Building in French Quarter by Rtwexplorer from a blog titled The Deep South
- Voodoo shop in the French Quarter by Kwmg from a blog titled Cajun Encounter!
- French Quarter in New Orleans by Bradleyt from a blog titled The first rule of daiquiri club is: watch ...
- French Quarter , New Orleans by Kevsharon from a blog titled damn mozzies
- French Quarter by night by Tiszrh from a blog titled Easy going im 'Big Easy'
- French Quarter by Shaneandsam from a blog titled New Orleans, LA
- French Quarter #1 by Cobra1899 from a blog titled Driving & Walking America's Most Interesting City!
- French Quarter #3 by Cobra1899 from a blog titled Driving & Walking America's Most Interesting City!
- D. French Quarter by Bharden from a blog titled Rollin on a River
- French Quarter by Tiszrh from a blog titled Day on the Road
- French Quarter by Roadtripusa2010 from a blog titled Beignets + pétrole + Voodoo = Grosse migraine !
- French Quarter by 3guys6balls from a blog titled Nouvelle Orleans
- French quarter by Hannah.goanna from a blog titled Fourth time zone...
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Drums merge into tap dances into jazz into karaoke -- Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez- let the good times roll ------------ it's New Orleans !
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My computer's back, which means it's time to make a new video. And just in time for Mardi Gras. (I was born in New Orleans, you see.)
In this excursion, I play through Stage 2 of Thunder Mountain as a Saharan Spy without dying once. Interpret the enemy team's skill however you want. I'm still not sure myself.
Laissez les bon temps rouler - New Orleans after Katrina - Tom Evans
Let the good times roll........ New Orleans lives on after Katrina, smaller but not lesser. We enjoyed the time livin' in New Orleans with friends in Uptown after Katrina. Thanks. Please continue the good life. Missing y'all.
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