Day 3 - Recreation

In New Orleans, our volunteer group split up into a couple of different groups. There were some people who wanted to window shop and see the sights before eating, and there were some people who just wanted to eat. I joined the latter group, and both groups chose Cafe du Monde as a good meeting place before we left the city. With a couple of hours of free time, we headed up Decatur Street.

We stopped to eat at a restaurant on the corner of Decatur Street and St. Philip Street. The group leader ordered fried alligator tail as an appetizer and shared it with us. I asked him if this was revenge for last night, when the Ohio State Buckeyes lost to the Florida Gators. The restaurant had a live musician who played blues and jazz while we ate, and I enjoyed the red beans and rice that I ordered.

After dinner, we went back up Decatur Street and did some window shopping of our own. One thing we noticed was how cool the weather had gotten. Thankfully, that could be cured by the caffeine and sugar fix we got when we went inside Cafe du Monde. Once our beignets were finished, we headed back to the van and then back to the trailers for bed.