Went down to New Orleans a month ago for a vendor conference/training session. Overall it was fairly informative, and possibly worth the money to the company (6 people from my division went...to an event with 40-something attendees...with 3 main session tracks...). The three days went kind of fast. In any case, I got to see New Orleans! Never been down to "the South" like that before (sorry, I don't really consider Florida during Spring Break to be very old-south-ish). We were at the Hotel Monteleone, which is a cool old style luxury hotel. With a unique floor plan that caused me to spent 15 minutes trying to get to the rooftop patio for the initial sign in. Found out that Bourbon Street isn't really my sort of thing. But, on the advice of a friend, I got to go out and have fun my way, by looking for better wifi, and failing that, any cell coverage. And by getting up early and walking around the French Quarter taking some pictures of course!

Looking up Royal Street towards Canal Street in the evening.

St. Louis Cathedral ("a minor basilica")

And of course, the Mississippi River, with a steamboat (the Natchez)!

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