It was our last day in the Big Easy! Sadly this evening we were heading on our biggest bus trip so far to Florida!
We wanted to make the most of the last day here and once again wandered the French Quarter to soak up the atmosphere. Today seemed to be a big family day, being the day after Thanksgiving the families were out in full force! We began by reliving some our favourite 
parts of New Orleans – including another visit to get some Praline chocolate from the Farmers market! After watching a parade of Tubas walk past the markets celebrating Turkey Day, we headed to one of the many Voodoo stores throughout the French Quarter. Voodoo was a very popular form of magic in New Orleans, and spiritual guidance is still very popular. Everywhere you looked you could get your palm read, or find out what your future held, including in the Voodoo stores in town. We decided against the Palm Reading but purchased our first Voodoo doll. The doll we decided on is intended to bless your home once it’s placed over the entrance to your house!
Lunch was near and we needed a snack – and we couldn’t finish our time in New Orleans without trying yet another southern delicacy, this time Alligator! We decided on a ‘Swamp Roll’ from ‘Gator Me Crazy’, which was a spring roll type snack with Alligator and cheese inside! Honestly it wasn’t too bad. Unlike what we thought – it didn’t taste fishy, more like a salty chicken type of meat, just a bit more chewy. It was certainly doable and we were able to keep it down!
The bus was ready to leave, but before we left we joined the mammoth line at the ‘Central Grocery Company’ opposite the French Markets for an Italian ‘Muffuletta’. We took away and enjoyed the sandwich on the bus to Florida. It was delicious! It took us straight back to the food that we had enjoyed in Europe, and certainly made the small seats and legroom on the Greyhound bus bearable…well for a little while anyway.
