Our last day here began with a visit to the National WWII museum. This museum is a wonderful treasure trove of artifacts and historical information of all of the aspects of WWII from the social and political conditions that led to the rise of Hitler and Mussolini and the rise of Japanese imperialism through the end of the war. It was a really great visit but the museum is much too extensive to begin to see it in one visit. There is just too much there, so, I guess I need to come back the New Orleans!
We were not allowed to take pictures inside the museum but there are a number of aircraft that are on display in the atrium, including a B-24 that we were told was actually flown to New Orleans, the wings were removed and re assembled to place it in the museum.
As I told you yesterday, there are 318 bikes registered for this trip, it is pretty impressive when they fill up the parking lot at the dealers.
This evening, we got to participate in an old New Orleans tradition, a walking parade down Canal St led by a band, to the wharf where they took a group picture of all of the participants.
The rest of the evening for me has been low key. Everyone else had other plans so I went out and got another bowl of jambalaya, made another visit to Cafe Du Monde for a last bite of beignets, and a walk through Jackson (of the War of 1812!) Square, and a last pass down Bourbon Street, which is really crazy tonight.
Tomorrow morning we will leave at 8 and head north to Meridian Mississippi for the night.
Karli would love to see the WWII, she read Anne Frank and has been very interested in anything WWII.
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