Tourist day in New Orleans

Today we are going on  a "tourist" day in New Orleans.  We have a room booked at the Westin New Orleans Canal Place near the river.  We have a wish list and hope to do as many items on their list as possible.

1. Aquarium
2. Imax
3. Insectarium
4. Beignets @ Cafe Du Monde
5. Street Car ride
6. Carriage ride through the French Quarter

Weather permitting we will also visit the artists around Jackson Square.

We arrived at the Aquarium when it opened at 10:00am, it had just begun to rain outside.  We had a quick lunch inside their food court.  Expensive!  We saw many people planned ahead by bringing sandwiches and drinks from home..next time!   My girls thoroughly enjoyed it. 

After the Aquarium we headed to the Insectarium & Butterfly exhibition.

 Paige is my youngest and really loves bugs, the teenager loved the butterflies but the rest of the bugs...not so much.

By the time we finished with the Insectarium, it was time for our Imax show.  It was a very good show about rescued baby orangutans and elephants who are raised and then released into the wild. We all loved it and I would highly recommend.

Afterwards, we headed to meet Hubby at hotel for supper.  We stayed at the Westin New Orleans located across the street from Harrahs Casino.  We had a kingsize bed and they added a cot.  The room was clean and featured a large LCD TV and a beautiful view of the river.  We would stay here again.

As luck would have it, it poured rain the rest of the night.  We had to settle for take out inside our hotel room and a PPV movie.

As we left the following morning, we stopped off at Cafe du Monde for our Beignets & Coffee/Hot Chocolate before heading home. 

Although we did not get a chance to do everything on our list, we all had a great time.