Family Trip to New Orleans


New Orleans, Louisiana
October 12–2, 2025

Photos at: M.S. Rau, antiques & fine arts.

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  1. ESE_3795 — Mural at Zesty Creole.
  2. ESE_3908 — Our Airbnb in NOLA
  3. ESE_3797 — Oyster Po’boy
  4. ESE_3799 — Eggs Benedict with crab
  5. ESE_3811 — Royal Street, where we spent the most time.
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  10. ESE_3830 — St. Charles streetcar line
  11. ESE_3832 — Beautiful homes in the Garden District
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  15. ESE_3842 — Halloween Spider Webs
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  17. ESE_3846 — Trees grow and grow in town.
  18. ESE_3858 — Molly’s Rise & Shine for breakfast
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  23. ESE_3863 — Fried chicken thigh on a bun
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  28. ESE_3897 — Commander’s Palace, NOLA high end restaurant
  29. ESE_3903 — Cochon Butcher, a notible place we ate at
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  31. ESE_3905 — It featured sandwiches of cured meats.
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  33. IMG_2704 — On the Mississippi River…
  34. ESE_3910 — Horse hooves of a different color
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  36. FSC_7650 — Cafe du Monde for beignets
  37. ESE_3926 — Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans
  38. ESE_3927 — More Royal Street
  39. ESE_3822 — M.S. Rau; Antiques & Fine Art
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  44. ESE_3962 — Churchill
  45. ESE_3973 — Dramatic display of art in their gallery
  46. ESE_3937 — Claude Pissarro, grandson of Camille Pissarro
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  48. ESE_3939 — Micromosaic
  49. ESE_3938 — Micromosaic detail
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  52. FSC_7653 — Napoleon House
  53. ESE_3996 — for muffulettas
  54. ESE_4004 — Preservation Hall. We did not partake much in the music scene
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  56. ESE_4010 — Voodoo was a NOLA preoccupation.
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  59. ESE_4015 — Kilwin’s—a favorite for ice cream and other treats
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  61. ESE_4055 — Willa Jean for brunch
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  67. FSC_7658 — WW II Museum, the 2nd largest museum in the U.S.
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  69. ESE_4097 — We pose with Dwight D. Eisenhower.
  70. ESE_4098 — Anne Frank
  71. FSC_7659 — Preparing for a flight mission
  72. FSC_7661 — This C-47 cargo plane was purchased from E-Bay in 2007.
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  76. ESE_4067 — Dog tag embossing machine
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  78. ESE_4073 — Jeep chassis
  79. ESE_4076 — Spitfire, British fighter
  80. ESE_4072 — Merlin engine, made by Packard, powered the P-51 Mustangs.
  81. ESE_4079 — A German Enigma code machine
  82. ESE_4077 — General Patton
  83. ESE_4082 — D Day exercise
  84. ESE_4084 — The actual D Day landing
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  86. FSC_7670 — Pacific theatre displays
  87. FSC_7671 — Flying Tiger P-40 fighter
  88. ESE_4092 — Nick’s Uncle Bob was a ball turret gunner, on the B-17 underside, on missons to Italy.
  89. ESE_4095 — Barbara’s dad saw action in one of the lengthiest and most horrific battles of WW II.
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  93. ESE_4150 — There are some pretty big trees in NOLA. It took three of us the reach around the tree.
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  95. ESE_4204 — The New Orleans Zoo
  96. ESE_4153 — Zombie elephants for Halloween
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  100. ESE_4184 — The Gorilla brain case is small compared to humans.
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  107. ESE_4219 — More alligators than we’d see on a swamp tour
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  109. ESE_4230 — Lurking crocodile
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  111. ESE_4244 — Black Widow spider
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  113. ESE_4302 — Llamas are related to camels.
  114. ESE_4319 — All decked out—Halloween is really big in New Orleans
  115. ESE_4032 — We’re going on a cruise on the City of New Orleans stern-wheeler.
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  117. FSC_7683 — All aboard!
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  119. FSC_7685 — The ship really was powered by the stern wheel, but it was driven by an electric motor, not steam.
  120. ESE_4350 — A calliope, a steam powered pipe organ, was really loud, but only played while we were boarding.
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  122. ESE_4340 — A Mississippi tugboat
  123. FSC_7686 — Lunch on the boat
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  127. IMG_4371 — A friend of a friend of Carla’s owns this BBQ place.
  128. ESE_4376 — At the Botantical Garden
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  131. ESE_4359 — Sculptures at the botantical garden
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  133. ESE_4372 — Giant Amazon Water Lilies were a high point of the garden.
  134. ESE_4377 — A new leaf
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  139. ESE_4388 — Tree fern
  140. ESE_4390 — New leaves are called Fiddleheads.
  141. ESE_4406 — Bromeliads
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  143. ESE_4427 — Sculpture Garden at he NOLA Museum of Art
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  146. ESE_4433 — We saw a spider like this in Bilbao, Spain.
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  149. ESE_4444 — 10 foot tall iPhone user
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  151. ESE_4451 — Restaurant at the Museum of Art
  152. FSC_7726 — We tour St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, the most famous of the New Orleans Cemeteries.
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  154. FSC_7716 — Crypt owned by Nicholas Cage
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  156. FSC_7721 — Tomb owned by a craft guild
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  158. ESE_4493 — The cemetary is mostly Catholic, but had Protestant and Jewish sections.
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  161. ESE_4504 — 120 years of Adams
  162. FSC_7729 — Central Grocery, for muffulettas
  163. IMG_4375 — Casamento’s Oyster House for oysters, oysters, oysters.
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  166. IMG_4383 — Pain Perdue with Bananas Foster Sauce topped by vanilla gelato at Crack’d Brunch