NOLA

I am still waiting on my first-weeks-of-Paris film to be developed, so I figured I would do a much needed post about my couple of days in New Orleans this past summer. It was the first leg of a 2-week road trip that I took with Anneliese in June. NOLA is an absolutely vibrant (and impossibly hot and humid) city, full of charm and dripping with character. We spent four days staying with Tatum, Anneliese's roommate from school, and she was awesome enough to take us around the city for our time there. The above photo is a side street we found while walking around the French Quarter. It led to a very quaint boutique and a tabby neighborhood cat (not photographed, because I am terrible at documenting things).

Louisiana has some of the country's longest bridges, and this was one of them. We were en route to New Orleans (at the end of a very, very, very, long drive) and it felt like the bridge was never going to end.

Anneliese and Tatum while we walked to Dat Dog, an unbelievably delicious hot dog place where I ate my first alligator sausage and almost had a heatstroke from drinking an IPA in 98 degree heat. (For breakfast)

Anneliese is mega excited to have finally arrived in NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA!!!

I am a complete newbie with cameras, so I thought taking a photo in low lighting with my lack of photography expertise would actually work out..nonetheless, check out just how colorful NOLA is in the background.

Here are some shots of the streets of the French Quarter, what we mainly explored during our stay. Every street and building was lusciously decorated with hanging beautiful plants and flowers, one of my favorite things about New Orleans.

I believe this was outside a garden that we wanted to check out. We never got to see the inside, because little did we know, spending more than 45 minutes out in the Louisiana heat takes its toll on northern girls. We went straight to the car after these shots were taken and sat for 30 minutes in the glory of air-conditioning.

Not the greatest photo taken (it was taken inside of a moving car), but I had to capture just a few of the many string lights you would find on houses while driving around residential neighborhoods, because I. Love. String. Lights. (Ambiance!!!)

NOLA dusk sky- a bit eerie, slightly mystical, and just plain beautiful. Very True Detective, am I right??