Hello, welcome to my blog. My name is Casie, and I am currently a Jr. at Methodist College. I am currently enrolled in a humanities class. As part of our class, we are going to Louisiana for a week to explore this historicly important port city, that has a melting pot of culture. The travel dates are January second through January ninth.

Sunday, January 7, 2018

Outer Journey, Post 6, 01/06/2018

Today was our free day.  It was extremely nice to get a chance to sleep in.  I was able to catch up on some much needed sleep.  Sleeping in to me though is sleeping till 8:30 AM.  Once I Woke up, I decided to go the outlet mall to do a little shopping.  At the mall I went store to store looking for the perfect impulse buy.  I unfortunately never found it.  I did however got an awesome deal on a pair of shoes for clinical this up coming semester. 
The Girls 
I then decided to meet up with Char and Ali, and some of the other girls. They were up Decatur at a burger place.  When I got there, it seemed cool, but to my surprise, it wasn’t.  It had the worst service I have ever experienced at a restaurant.  The server never took my order.  So after we wasted what seemed like two hours at this place we decided to venture out into the town.  That was really fun.  I was able to buy some street art that was pretty, and the artists name was Adel with no E, . 
The Parade 
Then suddenly, we herd a cop and looked to see what was happening, and it was a parade.  The start of it.  It consisted of a marching band.  We were able to follow them from Jackson square to Bourbon St.   After that we decided to come back to the hotel and relax a bit. 

I then decided to meet up with Hanna and Katie.  Those girls are so fun!  We wondered around the city for a while, and Hanna got tired so she got an Uber home.  Leaving only Katie and myself out.  While we were hanging out we were talking about family and we learned we shared a cousin who lives in southern Il.  While we were talking, we wondered to a part of the french quarter that didnt look familure, and we concidered ourselves lost.  This is when my time here went from being good, to being awesome.

Beautiful 
We asked some random man for directions, and he gave them to us, but we preceded to talk to him.  His name was Dan, and happened to be a New Orleans native.  He was a tall, dark haired man with a strong New Orleans accent who happened to a marine biologist. He studied studied the fish in Mississippi. He preceded to show us around and introduced us to his friends and they all took us under their wing.  It was amazing!  We then decided to wonder a bit more.  This time we had our own personal tour guide.   He showed us the crazy bend in the river where the boats almost must stop in order to take the turn.  It was so cool, ships flowed by one after another and they were crazy huge.  It was most definetly a sight to see.  It was amazing, with the big moon out yesterday, but it looked like it was cut in half with a vertical line, and it shined over the bridge presenting an image that I have never seen anything like.  This will be one of those things that I will remember forever!