Museum Day
We always need a museum day to fend for rain
This trip the weather has been great for the most part. It's also interesting we had vastly different weather over the 5 days that we are there. And this is the only morning that we got caught by the rain.
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| View in front of New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA).. yes, see the rain? |
Also it's starting to be hit or miss for places outside the touristy zone with Thanksgiving being so close. We strike out on finding a couple of good coffee places in Treme as they are closed for Thanksgiving. And the bus routes were changed due to the hotel collapse that we had issues trying to find the new bus stops.
We finally gave up and Lyft our way to the museum in the rain. Spent the morning looking at local art work and the sculpture garden
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| Beautiful entrance to the park |
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| New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) |
The museum has one of the largest bayou art and Southern plantation living exhibit.
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| Lousiana Art for the Bayou |
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| Pieces that caught my eye |
The locals from sake bar told us that this park is the 2nd largest park enclosed in the city. Central park in NY is the biggest one.
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| Sculpture Garden |
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| Another beautiful oak tree in the Sculpture garden |
After that we took the street car to find fried chicken!
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| New Orleans Street Car (hmm, what is the middle light for?) |
Willie Mae scotch house
Easily the best fried chicken in my life. I'm not sure how they did it! The batter is flavourful yet light. The chicken skin sort of melted away as u bite into it. The chicken is moist and not greasy.. Superbly done.
The queue is about 15 mins for us to get in and be prepared to wait for an hour inside before getting the food. But it's worth it!
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| Willie Mae Scotch House Fried Chicken |
We head out to Louis Armstrong Park.
Read an article about how this park segregated Treme and created issues as they tore down beautiful oak trees for this park.
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| The birth of Jazz |
After that we went to Magazine Street and had dinner at Petit Grocery
We are still full from lunch but the shrimp and grits at this place is amazing. Also the blue crab beignets is great too.
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| Petit Grocery |
For the night, we head out to Maple Leaf Bar for a live concert.
Unfortunately the venue and event is not that great but I have heard that they are more interesting during summer and Tuesday night. Maybe next trip!
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