2. Vacation Travel • Поездки

New Orleans (06.2008)

A budget, "let's get out of town" trip for our anniversary, we head to The Big Easy. Rustem had always wanted to see the South; I hadn't been to NOLA since I was a teenager and though not particularly enamored of this city on the Mississippi, we decided to see what post-Katrina New Orleans was like, and help give the city a boost.
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The carved wooden brackets remind us of traditional Russian homes.
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The carved wooden brackets remind us of traditional Russian homes.

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  • The “Shotgun” is a narrow one story home without halls. Each room is placed behind the other in a single file. They’re called "shotguns" because it’s said that if you fired a shotgun through the front door, the shot would pass through the lined-up doors of each room and out the back door.
  • The carved wooden brackets remind us of traditional Russian homes.
  • Yellow shotgun.
  • Lunch in the Quarter.
  • Our 17th Anniversary. We started out at Galatoire’s; over 100 years old & mentioned in “Streetcar Named Desire”. It was so noisy, we had a cocktail & left
  • At Galatoire's.
  • We ended up having our anniversary dinner here. Not bad.
  • Our voodoo doll of love.
  • New orleans Voodoo Dolls.
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