New Orleans, day 4

We visited the Audubon Insectarium today which I have to say was pretty cool. I loved the giant scale model of the underground world with the enormous ants and the huge earthworm. Nicholas and Megan got to pet a hissing cockroach, but Nicholas wasn't too keen on all the exhibits with live bugs!


















The butterfly garden was pretty cool, but my very favorite was the display of all the beautiful insects. The beetles are amazing! The photo doesn't begin to do the colors justice. And this is one of the biggest moths, a white witch.








After that, we hung out in the French Quarter. We ate our muffalettas on the banks of the Mississippi. One of the coolest things about New Orleans is that there is music where ever you go. All day and all night long. It's not all great, but some of it is really good. But it's there. Someone is singing, or playing the harmonica, or the saxaphone. Or there's a whole horn section on the corner as you walk by. Or it's just some dude and his guitar serenading you as you eat your lunch!










For dinner we ate at NOLA, which is one of Emeril's restaurants here in New Orleans. The food was good, Megan tried her first shirley temple, and Nicholas, who CLAIMED he didn't like mussels, cleaned us out!


























And finally, on our last night in the city, we ended with one of the best NO traditions: beignets at Cafe du Monde. It doesn't get any better than this.

We have had a fun week, we have laughed and laughed, the preteen attitude was at low tide, the kids were whispering together in conspiracy against us tonight at dinner, David ran and played with Nicholas and Megan even joined in. We are going to come home more exhausted than we started this spring break, but it's worth it. I really love our family vacations!