New Orleans....the french quarter

We had a relatively long drive to new orleans and i was on the front seat which was ok got to listen to my music :) we had a lunch stop and me, luke and jasmin went to taco bell! Me and luke had never been there and it was on the list to try whilst we were in america! And it was so cheap and tasty!

After that it was onto new orleans! And when we arrived at our little hotel in the arse end of no where we were a little dissapointed we thoughht we would be staying at a "proper" hotel! And when we all got our keys there were two rooms that would have to share a bathroom and obviously ours was one of them! We didnt really care we just wanted a double bed! But when we got into our room we were massively dissapointed it was tiny, really dirty like a hostel room and there were two tiny single beds, i was so unhappy :( and luke was just pissed right off we went to the reception to try to change rooms and there wasnt any spare they were full and half the rooms were being renovated, all the other rooms apart from ours and another guys who was above us had two double beds and ensuite ! We couldnt believe it, we were a couple and the rest of the group bar the other couple were all travelling together as friends so sleep in seperate beds had a double each, i was so angry, they said they hadnt been told and to ask someone in the group to swap! I quickly laughed and said no one in the group is that accomodating! I couldnt believed dylon hadnt specified we were a couple! I was so angry and upset, then dylon walked in and we explained our situation, and he asked if we had asked any of the group to swap! I thought to myself  "have you met the fucking group!" All extremely young and would not want to move! At this point one of the girls walked in georgina and she was lovely and she was actually going home tomoz so when she left the girl she shares with would have two doubles to herself! It made no sense! Of course the group wouldnt see it that way as they have no idea what its like to be a adult! Anyway we moved and the room we were now in was lovely and what we would expect as a couple.

....our new orleans hotel

We decided to go for a walk to the main strip of the french quater....and find somewhere to eat. Our hotel was around a 10 minute walk and it was nice to walk and look at all the pretty houses that were also very colourful! When we got to the strip it was heaving.....it was a saturday night! There were people everywhere and already drunk it was only about 18.30! It was so crowded with groups of people drunk, street performers, half naked women, tramps, police.... it was just a big collection of colourful people! To be honest it wasnt really our scene, the smell was awful and everyone was smoking, it wasnt what i pictured! We tried to find somewhere to eat but really struggled finding vegatarian food, we wondered and wondered and wondered, we walked to the end of the strip and it was very roudy there people arguing etc so we walked back along the river, we asked in a information center if there is a cafe or a dennys somewhere in town as by this time we were starving and just wanted something quick and easy! The bloke in the info centre was so offended! He got a bit funny wih us, like why werent we eating in one of the cafes near by! To be honest we were so disinterested in eating in the local cafes it was so crowded and we were so tired, we eventually found a cafe at the start of bourbon street which is the main strip, luke had a 8inch meatball sandwich and i had a cheese bun and we shared sweet potato fries which were really tasty! We headed back after this had a lovely bath and fell straight to sleep! We was so tired! And we slept right through on our lovely double bed! 

We set the alarm for 9.30 and luke went and got me breaky in bed! Bagels, muffins and orange juice! It was just what i needed! Today we were going to make our way to the lakeside shopping mall to try to get luke a replacement phone as his is broke and its still under warrenty. Typical it was a sunday and the buses were only once a hour! When we got to the first bus stop we waited an hour so we must of just missed one :( and then when we got to the next stop we had also just missed one, we had made an appointment and we only had 45 minutes to get there so we decided to walk the second half.....we walked in the wrong direction and got totally lost snd when we asked in a garage where we were, he had no idea he said he was new! Luckily a local guy helped us and called us a taxi thank god, we didnt want to spend money on a taxi i was so annoyed we had to, it was only $16 but that could get us a dinner at dennys! Anyway it doesnt matter the main thing is we got there on time and luke got his phone replaced! They had no idea what was wrong with it but it definately needed replacing ! So he had it replaced but unfortunately because he had a o2 sim card and there were no o2 towers here in the usa he could not find signal :( so he had a phone that he could do everything on apart from make calls, texts and whats apps, at least we got it replaced tho. The journey home was long with lots of waiting but we didnt get lost and stayed on the bus! We got back around 17.30! And just decided we would get pizza and Watch some tv. Our night in new orleans the night before had been quite enough we just wanted to enjoy our own space, bath and watch tv before we started camping for the last leg of our tour!

....just a few of the lovely houses we saw.

We left at 9am the next day....bound for memphis :) we was both really looking forward to new york but were trying not to wish the time away! But the fact is we were fed up of the bus, group (not all!) and guide, and just wanted to start our own travel again, travelling in a group is one of the hardest things of our time travelling! And quite frankly we wont be doing it again! New orleans was ok, not what we expected, maybe it seemed worse as we were there on a saturday night! However in the daytime we saw some lovely houses and really unique things, so .....it wasnt our fave place but we were pleased we visited!