Alice got Samantha, the girl in our room, to sing a birthday message to Flo, and posted it on YouTube, and then we walked into town, and had a Starbucks, so Alice could Skype him. I went to have a look at the Nike shoe shops, and to see if anywhere had any nice purses, without success. Because we were a bit hungry, and wanted to try one before we left, we went back to Mother's, to get a sweet potato pie, and then walked back to near where the hostel was, to Paras...

First trip of the day was to 'Mardi Gras World'- the workshop were the artists are currently making the floats and props for next year, and where you can walk around and see a very small percentage of past props. We got a beaded necklace with our ticket (because part of the reason the parade is so special is because the floats threw out lots of presents, including lots of these necklaces), and then went into a cinema room where we were allowed to try on genuine M...

Once we'd had a sufficient sleep in (after our days of little sleep) we tried to sort out our itinerary up until we leave USA, since it's a lot cheaper to book in advance. Last night we had settled on the plan of leaving New Orleans on Monday, going to Orlando (since we don't want to be there on a weekend) then Miami and onto New York, but the flight price had changed and it was much cheaper to fly on Friday, so we decided to go to Miami first. New York hostels w...

It was really nice of the Indian guy in our room to offer us a lift to the airport, and I felt bad that Alice woke him up at 6, given that he normally works and had last night off so went out for it. When we got to the airport, there was a place you could check in outside, and he printed off our boarding passes, but said something about how he would have to charge us for baggage, but if we went inside we wouldn't have to pay. When we got to the desk, the guy said...