We woke up to a lot of rain, but by 10:00 AM it was sunny and nice.  We drove to Algiers, about 10 miles, and took the ferry across to New Orleans again.  We took the Canal Line streetcar out to the ciry park and cemeteries and the St Charles Line out to the Garden District.  We walked down Bourbon Street and stopped for hot dogs from a street vender.  We then walked south in the French Quarter to Jackson Square.  We went in the St Louis Catherdral, built on the site of the first Catholic church in Louisiana.  It is the third church on the site.  The first was destroyed by a hurricane in 1722 and the second burned.  We stopped at Cafe' Le Monde, the first coffee stand near the French Market originally started in the 1860s and the place where fictional Dave Robicheaux, the Cajun detective in James Lee Burke's books, has his morning cafe' au lait and beignets.  We had cafe' au lait and beigets.  We noticed a lot of paintings in Mulate's restaurant featuring a blue dog.  We went to the artists gallery today.  His name is George Rodrigue and the dog is the ghost representation of his dog.  He has been quite prolific and is also an author. He has studios in New Orleans and Carmel, CA.  While walking back to the ferry depot, we saw a lot of vans and semis with film production equipment.  They were setting up to film a new movie, "Twelve Rounds." We got back to the campground at 8:55 PM, so didn't have to go in the back way.

 

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