Halloween in
New Orleans was quite an experience to say the least. We found a
streetside pub along Bourbon Street and parked ourselves for a couple of
hours for "creature" watching. Most
popular this year are probably the orange jail jumpsuits of Litchfield Prison,
from the hit TV show "Orange is the New Black". When the restaurant
suggested they close the shutters to the street to protect the restaurant from
unruly party goers we decided it was in our best interests to leave. We
joined a couple of parades that meandered their way through the French Quarter
streets. As the night went on the atmosphere changed somewhat and we
called it a night around 10:30 pm. A crazy
fun evening. After spending almost two weeks in New Orleans, we really didn't
want to leave. There are not likely many other cities in the world with
as great a reputation for decadence as New Orleans.
There were many cemetery tours and ghost tours as well.
As much of the City is below sea level, bodies are not buried below
ground given the high water table. When early European settlers placed
coffins under 6 feet of earth, the water level would often rise above them
causing the caskets to sometimes rise to the surface
and be founding floating in the streets during periods of floods. The
only solution was to bury the dead above ground. The tombs or oven vaults
in New Orleans cemeteries are used again and again. Typically, after one year
and one day the tomb will be re-used simply by breaking
the brick and mortar seal, and pushing the remains to the rear of the tomb.
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