Amurrica

After watching the sunrise on the Mississippi and sleeping for a while,

that afternoon we went down to the Quarter where they were having lots of music and stuff for the fourth. We saw the Treme Brass Band, a pretty well-known brass band here in NOLA. They start playing in one spot and then walk through the city playing, and a crowd gathers and follows them. It was very neat to see. There are these guys called dancing men who dance around while the band plays and get people from the crowd to dance with them and stuff. It was very cool.

parading in the quarter and the dancing man

THEN we went to the river to watch the fireworks! And let me tell you, they were the most beautiful fireworks I have ever seen… being on the river adds a lot to it I think, and the bridge is in the background… they have these two huge boats that shoot the fireworks off at the same time – one on this side of the bridge and the other on the other side… they call them the Dueling Barges Fireworks. Anyway, there were some that were huge and fell all the way onto the river. Gorgeous.