Day 22 – April 27

Marie
(Marie)
La voodoo veau
She’ll put a spell on you

Marie
(Marie)
La voodoo veau
She’ll put a spell on you

Marie
(Marie)
La voodoo veau
She’s the witch-queen oh
Of New Orleans, of New Orleans

I’m gonna tell you a story
Strange as it now seems
Of zombie voodoo gris
And the witch-queen of New Orleans – Redbone – witch Queen of New Orleans

San Francisco Plantation

We are off on another adventure today as Stew and Carol are picking us up around 10 for the 45 minute drive over to the San Francisco Sugar Plantation. Kate had wanted to see a Plantation during this visit. I have been twice before to the Laura Planation and also to Oak Alley. It will be good to see a different one this time.
We headed down Highway 61 and it was not long before the heavens opened and it rained just as heavy as only New Orleans can.
We got to the Plantation around 1 and off we went for the tour. San Francisco is a beautiful building with a lot of history to go with it. Our tour guide was a little strange. It seemed liked she had learned here spiel by rote and she rattled off information at a rate of knots without taking a breath. No time for questions as she turned and walked to the next room and we (the tourists) assumed that was the signal to follow. Still it was most enjoyable glimpsing the life of a Plantation Owner and his extended family and the poor Slaves whose toil made the owners rich. Check out the photos of this magnificent building here http://www.sanfranciscoplantation.org
None of us had eaten and it was close to 3 o’clock. We pulled into a Popeye’s for a big old bucket of chicken, red beans and rice, Cajun fries and biscuits (biscuits could be described as a sort of scone.) I know we also had Popeye’s Chicken yesterday but no matter as it is so superior to KFC you could eat it every day.
We got back to the apartment around 5 and immediately went down to Walmart’s for some supplies. The music at Lafayette Square is on tonight and I tossed up going. Tomorrow is the start of the second week of Jazz Fest so I decided to take it easy instead. We watched the first double episode of Season One of NCIS New Orleans. We now where the NCIS headquarters is located on St. Anne Street in the Quarter and will go and take a picture for Cara. Kate yelled out when she saw a couple of the characters having lunch in one scene at Mother’s. She recognised the restaurant from our own visit last week.
Also don’t forget if you go to Wendy’s Facebook page you can have a look at some of the excellent photos she has been taking.