fire

Sunday after watching the sun rise and all, we came back, slept 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.

THEN we went to the river, after Kendall and I snuck through a fence to go through the wharf warehouse to the other side where it was SO pretty and then running from the cops because it was definitely very illegal for us to be there, but hey you only live once, right? (turns out it was more dangerous than we thought because that is where a lot of people do drug deals, and the cops are super corrupt and sometimes have drug deals there too…) 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.

Monday, we did a WalMart/Sams run, had McAlisters, and then Kay took us over the Causeway, which is the 24-mile long bridge that runs over Lake Pontchartrain…that’s right, 24 miles, so at one point you are completely in the middle of the lake and all you can see is water on either side of you. And it is awesome. We got some PJ’s Coffee (another NOLA local place), came home and chilled.