By yourself, New Orleans isn't that fun. Kind of like how drinking by yourself isn't much fun.
Pralines are not what I thought they were
Beignets are delicious (well, I already knew that)
Yellow, purple and green should only be used together here
You can buy a 32 oz margarita on the street at 10am. If you want. And then drink it wherever.
We went out to the University of New Orleans, and passed through a neighborhood still recovering from Hurricane Katrina - many still had X's sprayed on the front of their houses:
"The x's: On the front of every house, right on the facing, there is a large spray-painted "x." That was done by relief workers, government agencies, or police or firefighters as they came by. In the upper middle quadrant of the x, a date is written. This is the date the spray-painter was able to enter the house. It is usually two to three weeks after the storm hit. In the left quadrant is the abbreviation of the agency/entity that checked the house. In the right quadrant, it lists whether the visitor was able to get inside on their search ("Int" for interior, "Ext" for just the exterior). And in the bottom section of the x, it lists a number. It's usually a "0". But I saw more than a few that said "1" or "2", and even a couple that said "3". This is the number of dead people they found inside." If we hadn't left the central downtown area, you could almost not realize that Hurricane Katrina had been here.
People here think 50 degrees is cold - I saw a woman wearing ear muffs. For serious.
New Orleans airport code is MSY
"MSY stands for Moisant Stock Yards. Before the airport was built, an early aviation pioneer crashed a small plane on the property--John Moisant. John was born in 1868 in Kankakee, IL. His death in a crash on what was then a Harahan Plantation occurred while he was preparing to try for a new world's record for sustained flight. After the crash, the property was turned into stock yards for cattle and named after him--Moisant Stock Yards. Then the airport was built on the same site. Since most residents knew where Moisant Stock Yards were located, the name was used as the first identifier for the airport. The original name of the airport was Moisant Field. The name was changed to New Orleans International Airport, but the identifier stayed the same since it is extremely difficult to change the airports identifier in all of the publications." So random.
Shipyards are in the Bayou. That's why I'm here. Shipyards.
A dialect here is "Yat", but I've more often heard the strong Southern accent.
