Down in New Orleans

While Hannah is figuring out our game plan for the rest of the day, I figured I'd update everyone on today's events. We pulled into New Orleans after eating at a great restaurant called Louie and the Red Haired Lady. I got a dish called Eggplant Algiers, which is basically fried slices of eggplant layered with crab cake and shrimp served on noodles with some kind of white sauce. It was killer and my stomach still feels overly full 3 hours later. We drove across Lake Pontchartrain and it was big, as in 24 miles across. See picture below for further description:

Anyway, enough bridge-related pictures...I think that makes 3 so far. Speaking of pictures, the really grainy ones that don't look so good when you click on them are sent from my cell phone which doesn't have that good of a camera. Also, you can click on pictures I post to see bigger versions of them. Also, I'm trying to figure out a way to post videos to the blog. We'll see if that works out. Well, we are in another hotel. We drove all over the city getting to our campsite and we were no joke, 15 minutes away when we realized that we would need to take a ferry to get there. Not too big of a deal except that would have been an even longer wait to get into the city from the campsite every day, and Hannah and I are still haunted by memories of Venice and what a pain taking ferries can be. Plus it sounds really sissy to say that I, "need a ferry" to get where I'm going...sounds like fairy. We drove back across the city (which takes about 50 minutes even on the expressway...big city) and arrived at our fancy Super 8 hotel. I think that God has been saving us some major headaches by making it really difficult to get to the campgrounds in both Pensacola and now in New Orleans. There has been some major heat around here and I think both of our tempers would take a hit from sleeping in it for a few nights in a row. So, we're pretty excited to be here and it seems like there is going to be plenty to do. Fair warning for anyone coming to New Orleans: it can be really frustrating to navigate through. We were about to miss a poorly marked turn and make a daring, high speed squeeze between a guard rail and a van just to realize that we had, in fact, made a wrong turn. The GPS didn't see it that way and made us turn around...