Touring in NOLA 2013 Day 2

Tuesday April 30, 2013 

After a leisurely morning talking on the phone, answering emails, drinking coffee and editing our photo streams, we finally got out and about for breakfast. Oops, we missed breakfast and had to settle for lunch at the Commerce Restaurant on Camp Street, just a few steps from our Hotel.  Michael had a Oyster Po-boy and I had a Club.  Very good!

Today is museum day.  We walked down Magazine Street to the WWII museum to spend the day there.  We started with the Tom Hanks narrated movie, "Beyond All Boundries."  Then we lucked into a free guided tour of the main museum.  Our guide Paul, took us through the displays for Normandy and the War in the Pacific.  He was very interesting and will informed.  The tour was very good and we felt like we got to experience the best of the museum proper. 

We stopped in at The Soda Shop for some gourmet ice cream in this 50's themed eatery.  The Pro Football Hall of Fame had a nice exhibit set up and we both took that in before walking across the street to the Boing Pavilion to see the war planes on display.  It was a 4 story hanger-like structure with a B-17 hanging from the ceiling along with 5 other warbirds of various types. 

The John Besh restaurant, The American Sector, was just closing (at 5:30!!) by the time we arrived but we were able to order a beer (NOLA Blonde and Hopitoulas) and some snacks.  Michael had some greasy onion rings, a cup of Gumbo and a BBQ slider, and I had a cup of gormet fries and 2 BBQ sliders.  Everything was delicious except the poor onion rings...

We walked back to the hotel and settled in for a bit. Caught up on some emails and photo stream edits then we walked back down Decatur to Jackson Square.  After Coffee and Beignet's at Cafe du Monde and a stroll around the square taking several nice photos, we set off for a stroll down Bourbon Street on our way back to the hotel.

 We stopped in for a beer at the Barber Chair and continued down Bourbon street carrying our cups of beer along the way. I was "arrested" for carrying an open cup of beer and not being drunk... It was a come on for a local charity and I got a very cool hat for my $20.