Day Two-The Rain Continues

Day Two began with Lara and Cara skipping the Cafe du Monde line and going for a N'awlins breakfast at River's Edge in Jackson Square. Rajun' Cajun omelet, yummy grits, and Crawfish Po'boys readied us for walking around the French Market. Lot's of other tourists were going through there too and their Go Cups only made us a little nauseous...

We mostly saw alligator heads and feet, beads, bad knock-offs, jewelry, and voodoo dolls. Then we sat in the sun and listened to a band play the blues. And tried to ignore all the cigar smoke. and Go Cups. Then it rained again. A lot. But it stayed warm, so we didn't care.

We went to the Famous pralines shop and tried their goods. Cara liked them but they were too sugary for Lara. She gave her sample to Cara. 

Then we went to William Faulkner's home which is now a special little bookstore.  While we were there, a man came in looking for a book we never heard of, and the woman that works there knew immediately and asked if he wanted hard-back or soft. The hard-backed was a first edition and was exactly what the man was looking for and bought the book for $140!  There were MANY first-editions of famous books: Wuthering Heights, To Kill a Mockingbird, and lots of Faulkner books.

When we left, it rained again. A lot. But it stayed warm, so we didn't care.

Then we were ready for dinner.  So we walked all the way down (past Brangelina's house) to this Italian restaurant that keeps getting really good reviews in guide books, only to find it closed on Sunday's.  As we were standing there, this "nice" man came over and told us other Italian restaurants to go to, since that one was closed. And then he asked us for money!!!!! Feeling annoyed, and incredibly hungry, Lara gave him a dollar.  After that, we walked to one of his recommendations, only to find that that one was closed too!! What is it with Italians on Sunday in the French Quarter? Don't they eat?  Out of pure desperation, we went to a restaurant that was always crowded.  Later we found out that the building it was housed in used to be a slave auction house.  Interesting piece of history.

After having bellies full of food, we walked up to Preservation Hall, legendary for great jazz. We waited in line for almost 1 hour, and then gave up.  We found out (too late) that it was a "Special Performance" by one of Fats Domino's musicians... it would have been nice to see him, but we were just too exhausted. 

For our late-night snack we (again) enjoyed delicious beignets and cafe au lait. Cara had chocolate milk, and was promptly chastised by the waiter.  What can she say, she likes chocolate milk.

Then off to bed... early morning tomorrow with car rental and heading out of the Big Easy!!