DAY 2: NEW ORLEANS, THE BIG EASY
This morning, we rose nice and early at 5:15 AM!! We headed straight for Auburn University and had a nice drive through tour of their very large campus before stepping off at the famous Samford Hall for a quick picture. Did you notice what time it said on the clock!?
We had our first travel breakfast this morning of poptarts and gogurt. Somehow, plates didn't make it on one of the vans so travel brochures were used instead!!
We drove through the rest of Alabama and stopped at the Mississippi Welcome Center. It poured rain on our drive through Mississippi, but the sun came out just in time for us to arrive in New Orleans!!
In NOLA, we were steps from the Mississippi River where we were serenaded by some of the locals as we made our way to Cafe Du Monde! The beignets were SO yummy. We also walked down Bourbon Street taking in the sights and visited St. Louis Cathedral. Then we had an hour and a half to split off into groups of six to explore the city!!
We met back at the bus at 4:45 PM to head to our final destination of the day. On the drive there, we crossed over Lake Pontchartrain. The bridge across was 23 miles long!! We stayed at Fontainebleau State Park where we were indoors tonight...and yes, everyone was excited about that. Even better, we got bunk beds!!
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| First stop at Auburn University! |
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| Alina with her research on LaGrange College! |
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| Kate telling us all about Auburn! War Eagleee! |
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| Elise sharing with us info about the state of Alabama |
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| Everyone was a little sleepy on this ride! |
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| Grace giving us all the details about the state of Mississippi |
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| Rainy Mississippi day |
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| Arrived in New Orleans! |
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| Cathryn telling us about the St. Louis Cathedral |
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| Josie with her presentation of Bourbon Street |
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| Dallas giving us a show and tell of the Mississippi |
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| Ethan telling us some fun facts about the state of Louisiana... did you know that tabasco sauce originated here?? |
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| Hunter sharing information about Cafe Du Monde with us! |
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| Cafe Du Monde! |
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| Gorgeous St. Louis Catherdral |
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| Today was Mylee's birthday and she celebrated by hanging out with her new found friends and definitely eating some beignets!! Happy Birthday Mylee! |
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| Where we got to stay for the night |
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| Our amazing cooks!! |
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| Our first contestants of the Dixieland Delight competition! |
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| One of our first place winners, dopey!! |
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| One of our other first places winners, sneezy!! |
We practiced for our Dixieland Delight competition before a dinner of spaghetti and alfredo with garlic bread. After dinner we went straight in for our competition for the night where we had to either sing, dance, story tell, or act out Dixieland Delight. The dopey and sneezy group tied for first place.
We ended our night by getting our TWB wear, taking showers and getting ready for day 3!
