Since we "scoped out" the city on the Hop On/Hop Off bus on Saturday afternoon, we were armed with our desired tour stops for our Sunday.  We both wanted to visit Mardi Gras World and it was a great choice.  This company creates all the decorations for the floats, builds the floats and sells them to the "Crewes" who ride them.  We visited one huge warehouse and saw drawings/designs, sculptors at work, decorations/floats in storage and saw a movie about the history of New Orleans Mardi Gras.  They even had costumes we could dress in for photo ops! 

Our campground was less than fabulous.... but we had water, electric, locks on our doors and windows.... inexpensive and very close to the French Quarter so it was perfect!  Oh yeah, there was also a huge RR train depot right over the fence but with our air conditioning turned on the sounds of the trains was nothing more than background and soothing.

We  walked a lot.  Wandered down Magazine Street, visited a few shops, took a break at Cafe du Monde for cafe au lait and beignets.  Wonderful!

Today was a long driving day but we knew it would be and despite the holiday it wasn't bad.  The roads in Louisiana (at least Route 10) are crummy & washboardy.  We found most of our crackers and cereals on the RV floor when we opened our door.  So Pam has been reorganizing the kitchen since we got  here and now knows where everything is! 

Tomorrow we head for San Antonio... Bye for now... Devon