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Elisa's Trip to The Big Easy

Join Elisa as she takes a few days to visit The Big Easy in Winter 2017.  The French Quarter, Jackson Square and lots of yummy desserts!​

New Orleans Facts
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The Big Easy Getaway...
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​Activities
Day 1


Leave New York for New Orleans

Arrive 11:30AM

Check into Hotel  

Lunch: Afternoon Tea

Walk along Bourbon Street
Bourbon, steeped in history, folklore and beauty that dates back to to 1798, when New Orleans was founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville. Also known as “Rue Bourbon,” this monumental street sits at the heart of the French Quarter extending 13 blocks from Canal St. to Esplanade Avenue.

Dinner: French
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Bourbon Street, New Orleans (credit: en.wikipedia.com)
Activities
Day 2

Breakfast

Walking Tour - The French Market 
The historically charming open-air French Market features shopping, dining, music and local tradition that is uniquely New Orleans. From  Jackson Square to the flea market at the end of Esplanade Avenue, the French Market includes five blocks of local produce, specialty art, handmade crafts, retail shopping and more.

Lunch 

Dinner
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(credit: groupon.com)
Activities
Day 3

Breakfast

JAZZ CRUISE ON STEAMBOAT NATCHEZ 
Launched in 1975, The NATCHEZ resembles the old sternwheelers VIRGINIA and HUDSON in her profile and layout. Her powerful steam engines were built for U.S. Steel Corporation's sternwheeler CLAIRTON in 1925. Her genuine copper and steel steam whistle is a treasured antique. 

The NATCHEZ glides past the French Quarter and through one of the world's most active ports, with daily two-hour jazz cruises departing from the Toulouse St. Wharf 


​Lunch: Crepes

Dinner:  Italian


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New Orleans Street Car (credit: nola.com)

​Activities

Day 4

Brunch: Jazz Brunch

Street Car Ride 

AUDUBON AQUARIUM OF AMERICAS
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Dinner:  

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(credit: photonews247.com)
Activities
Day 5

Depart New Orleans to New York
Trip Expenses
Day 1


Airfare: $
 
Hotel: $ 

Taxis:
- Taxi to Airport: $
- Taxi to Hotel: $



Meals:  
- Lunch  
- Dinner

















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​Trip Expenses
Day 2


Tour Cost:  Free


Meals:  
- Lunch  
- Dinner
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​Trip Expenses
Day 3


Jazz Cruise Tickets:  


Meals:

- Breakfast: $
- Lunch:       $ 
- Dinner:      $

 























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​Trip Expenses
Day 4


Tickets/Admission Costs:
- Street Car: $
- Audubon Aquarium of Americas: $ 



Meals:  
- Jazz Brunch: $
- Lunch: $

- Dinner: $













Trip Expenses
Day 5


Taxi to Airport: $

Taxi from Airport to Home: $


Meals:  
- Breakfast
- Lunch
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16 FUN FACTS ABOUT NEW ORLEANS
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1. New Orleans was founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville in 1718, naming it after Philippe II, Duke of Orléans who was Regent of the Kingdom of France at the time.

2. Bienville chose the site of New Orleans due to its location along a sharp bend of the Mississippi River that created a natural levee against hurricanes and the flood-prone river.

3. The original city of New Orleans was built in a rectangle block that is today’s French Quarter; it was centered around the Place d’Armes (Jackson Square.)

4. In April 1803, New Orleans became a part of the United States when Napoleon sold all of the Louisiana Territory to the U.S. under the Louisiana Purchase.

5. New Orleans grew rapidly with influxes of Americans, French, Creoles, and Africans. This growth was fueled by the global popularity of sugar and cotton, which were cultivated with slave labor on large plantations outside the city, and traded worldwide through the port and city of New Orleans.
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Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville - founder of New Orleans in 1718.


6. Louisiana is the only state that does not have counties. Instead, Louisiana is broken into 64 political subdivisions called parishes. 

7. New Orleans is famous for Mardi Gras, or “Fat Tuesday,” which is the last day of the Carnival season as it always falls the day before Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent.

8 . The first Mardi Gras celebrated in the United States actually took place in Mobile, Alabama, in 1703, rather than in New Orleans.


9. ​New Orleans is the birthplace of Jazz music, an “energetic or vigorous”mixture of African and Creole rhythms with European styles and instruments.
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Louis Armstrong (credit: hotelmonteleone.com)
10. New Orleans barber Buddy Bolden is credited with inventing jazz music in 1891.

11. The Mercedes-Benz Superdome (commonly called The Superdome) — located in New Orleans’ Central Business District — covers a 13-acre expanse and has a diameter of 680 feet, making it the largest fixed domed structure in the world.

12. Beignets are a popular sweet treat in New Orleans made from deep-fried dough sprinkled with confectioner’s sugar. Other popular foods include muffulettas, red beans and rice, po’boys or gumbo.
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13. The city of New Orleans, also called "The Big Easy" and "The Crescent City" is pronounced “New or-lins” or “new or-lee-yuns” but not “naw-lins” or “new orl-eens.” 

The Mercedes-Benz Superdome (credit: www.mygnrforum.com)
​14. Alcohol is available in New Orleans at any moment of the day and drinking alcohol out of a plastic cup  is allowed on the street.

15. New Orleans is the birthplace of singer Louis Armstrong, writers Truman Capote and Anne Rice, as well as TV personalities Reese Whiterspoon and Ellen DeGeneres.

16. New Orleans holds the honor of inventing both craps and poker. ​
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