January 7th: Outer Journey

Kendra, Marcy, and I started our free day with a little extra sleep than what we had gotten the past couple days. We slept in an extra hour than usual and took our time with breakfast and getting ourselves ready to leave the hotel. We treated the day More like a Saturday morning than a Monday morning. We left hotel at about 1pm and headed to Jackson Square. We initially planned to go to the Aquarium near by, but since the weather was going to be in the low 70's, we decided we wanted to spend the rest of the day outside. We wanted to start off the day by visiting the 1850 House, a museum with the some of the original furniture from when Micaela Pontalba had build the apartment buildings on either side of Jackson Square. Unfortunately the museum is closed on Monday's so we had to make other plans. Since the museum was closed, we stopped a few doors down at Creole Delicacies, one of our stops on the cuisine tour we took yesterday, We looked at sweets and souvenirs to bring back to out families and talked to the owner a little bit more. When we were done, we headed to the open-air French Market to look around. We didn't find much we liked, so after about 20 minutes we headed back toward Jackson Square for a drink on top of Muriel's gallery. This was my favorite part of the day and such a nice way to end the evening. The weather was beautiful, and the square wasn't packed with people like it was on the weekend. Kendra, Marcy, and I relaxed and talked about the museums that we has been in yesterday. We talked about out favorite exhibits and how different New Orleans is than anything we had ever seen. It was a bittersweet way to end our time in this amazing City. 

View from Muriel's Gallery

Muriel's Courtyard