Allison's Wonderland

08/07/2011
We woke up ridiculously early in order to get Taylor to the airport in time for her flight. 5:30. I don’t do 5:30 ya hear! But I did today. Yuck! After we dropped her off at Hobby airport in Houston we headed to Nawlins! I was so excited about this because I haven’t been to Nawlins or NOLA as it is also known as, since I was ten. So excited to be back.

We checked into our hotel located in the heart of the French Quarter called Hotel Monteleone. It’s one of the Historical Hotel Landmarks of America and it is beautiful. Supposedly there is over 30 ghosts that called this Hotel home. CRAZY! After we cleaned up we headed to the streets. We started our walk to the French Market and found Café Du Monde on the way. This place has amazing Beignets! We had our Beignets and water and they were amazing!!! After that we were on our hunt for Oysters Rockefellar because Jeanne was having a serious craving. So we walked to Hotel Roosevelt because that’s where her Dad said had the best. Well in the meantime we had a torrential downpour. YUCK! We tried to wait it out under the shelter of a random warehouse, but it was no use so we started booking it to Roosevelt. When we got there we talked to the Concierge who told us that their hotel restaurant doesn’t even serve Oysters Rockefellar and that their restaurant isn’t even open on Sundays. So we were stuck. But he told us another place we could go that supposedly had the best oysters.








So we run through the storm again this time armed with an umbrella to the trolley station. We took it down to the Hilton Riverside and after running through the rain and the thunder, and the lightning we finally made it to Drago’s in the Hilton. We were all soaked. Come to find out they didn’t even had Oyster Rockefellar. The concierge lied to us! Oh well. We weren’t going anywhere. We started our progressive dinner here and it was a good start. We got Creole oysters, and this amazing cheesy crab dip. After that we hopped on the trolley again and headed to this place called Felix’s. This was kind of a divey place. The atmosphere was kind of terrible but the food was good. Kelsey and I split Blackened alligator and turtle soup. Oh yummy yumkins. After our main course we headed to Brennan’s for dessert. Home of Bananas Foster. This place had all the atmosphere a person could want. It was fancy pancy. I didn’t know that it was the originator of Bananas Foster, otherwise I think I would’ve gotten that. But I still got to try it. Our waiter came to our table and made it right there. It flamed up super high when he mixed the banana mixture with the rum. I got Louisiana chocolate pecan pie which was super good too along with Bailey’s coffee that was $10 bucks. YIKES! That’s a little crazy high priced. Our dessert was super yummy.






We then went for a walk and bought souvenirs and pins before getting on our ghost tour. We met up with the tour at a Flanagan’s Pub which was a creepy weird pub in the French Quarter. We learned about the LaLaurie family which was the freakiest story we heard. This woman and her Doctor husband tortured and mangled their slaves in a room in their home. It was sick the way this woman described it. Yuckity Yuck! She said no one has owned this mansion for very long and she said those who do go a little nuts after owning it. Guess who owns it now? Nicholas Cage. If you haven’t noticed…he’s been going a little nuts lately. Weird! She told us another story about this butcher who chopped up his wife and served her to his customers in the 1800’s. SICK! In the middle of our tour there was a domestic violence dispute where a woman was choking a man on the street corner. So our tour guide had to call the cops. CREEPY! Anyway, it was a good tour and our tour guide went to school for theater. We chatted a bit. Went back to our hotel and once again showered. I had to wash the day off of me because I was so super gross. Off to home tomorrow! I’m kinda of super excited about going home. It feels like I’ve been gone for years!