New Orleans, Day 3 of 3
Dory:
Photo by Stephanie. The St. Charles streetcar line is kept vintage, which includes no air conditioning. Luckily it wasn’t too hot while we were there.
We rode the oldest continuously running streetcar in the world to the WW2 Museum and I watched a 4-d movie which was 2D and sensory effects mixed. And the movie made me understand how many people died in the war. And I got a pinball game and army men at the gift shop and then we had to double back to the gift shop to see our dog tag’s endings. The dog tags were part of an experience where we had real-life stories to follow around.
Photo by Vivian. This was one of many cases filled with guns that Dory was very interested in.
Photo by Stephanie. I found our local (Waco) hometown hero at the National WWII Museum!
Then we went on a ghost tour that had history in it and was fun and we tried some EMPs which probably don’t measure ghosts.
Photo by Stephanie. These devices may not have detected ghosts, but the kids seemed to have fun with them anyways.
And then after we got beignets and hot chocolate but I did not drink it so my mom drank it. Then we got home and slept.
Vivian:
Hi friends! (And fam!) Today is Thursday and we were tested a lot. We woke up and got up (in my opinion two very different things) and got out the door in a timely fashion, then we rode on the oldest running street car IN THE WORLD.
Photo by Vivian. No idea why I’m clutching my pearls.
We got off and went inside the national WWII museum. It was eventful and we learned a lot of interesting things about death! ( do you hear the sarcasm?) We went to a 4-D movie and I might or might not have cried, but never mind that.
Photo by Vivian. The photo doesn’t really do it justice, but this room was meant to convey the magnitude of the Allied invasion forces during D-Day.
Photo by Stephanie. She may have found the WWII museum depressing, but at least she got this cute T-shirt!
After lunch and leaving the WWII museum we went and participated in the ghost tour with Charlie and his family. There was a very interesting story the guide told about how the first people here had been prisoners and nuns, sent by the French government. The government then sent 12 year old orphan girls to help… make the colony bigger, let’s say. They brought along boxes filled with clothes, the boxes were called caśket boxes and so the girls were called the Caśket girls. Notice caśket sounds a lot like casket. As in vampires.
Photo by Stephanie. This has nothing to do with the Casquette Girls. It is a mourning doll, which our guide used in her explanation of the mourning rituals of Creoles in early New Orleans, when there was plenty of death to go around. She also showed us a necklace made of hair and several photos of people posing with the corpse of their loved one.
Anyway after the tour we went and got beignets, which were delicious with Charlie and his family. Following that, we went back to the RV resort and changed into bathing suits. Charlie and his fam came over again and we had another pool party, it was very fun to talk and splash around. He left, we left, and we went to bed.
Photo by Stephanie. The famous homeschool friend Charlie, in front of a haunted hotel.