Maps and Breakfast

This morning over breakfast Chloe and I talked about maps and our trips. We looked at the globe and the road map of New Orleans and talked about Canal Street and the Algiers Ferry. Then Chloe got the idea to draw her own map, which she is doing as I write this. It’s not bad for a 4-year-old.

During our spring break trip we were driving to the ferry one night and drove past a warehouse full of people and floats, Guys were going in with cases of beer. That was Kern’s Mardi Gras World, where all the Mardi Gras floats are made. The next day as we were leaving we saw the floats crossing the bridge with us on their way to the Saint Patrick’s Day parade downtown.

Some of the places we want to go are Cafe Du Monde, Audubon Aquarium, is still closed, but the the Canal Streetcar is open and free until June 30. Here’s a newspaper article on the subject. The shipwreck museum in the Jackson Brewery. Of course we’ll stop by the statue in Jackson Square and say hello to Old Hickory.