New Orleans and beyond

On our drive into Louisiana we heard the shocking news that Michael Jackson had passed away (o.k we are obviously a tad behind with the posts), but we were greeted at our New Orleans hotel with a very drunk receptionist and guests having a little MJ tribute in the foyer, Hayley was instructed she must moonwalk and dance her heart out before she could get a room rate – so she gave them a little more than they bargained for and we boogied ourselves into the best room in the hotel. After settling in we headed off to explore the French Quarter, Bourbon St was the hectic mess we expected (Kings Cross on Crack) and there was an abundance of ‘Ghost Tours’ that we decided to get in on the action with and scare the crowd’s with our convincing ‘boo’s’ and other ghostly noises…

The next day we met up with some American friends we met earlier in the year in Australia who were in town on a bachelor weekend, so our New Orleans experience quickly turned into ’2 blondes a car and a bachelor party’ – cue strip clubs, tequila shots, stumbles, tumbles and Bloody Mary’s galore…

The hungover mornings proved to be just as much fun as the drunken nights before (I am not sure that we sobered up at all the whole weekend which might explain it!) we discovered some interesting cullenary delights:

And decided one morning to purchase a set of ‘Gnarly Teeth’ which we put in and proceeded to laugh non stop for a solid half an hour, literally falling over ourselves in fits of laughter and surprising passers by with a flash of our pearly whites. One man commented that Hayley looked like a bunny rabbit and Josie ‘just looks really ugly’!

Next stop upon yet another reccomendation by an aussie ex pat at our hotel was Galveston, a beach town in Texas – who’d a thunk it? So we ventured out for a bite to eat and met the lovely Betty Sue who invited us to come and visit her cousin’s costume shop the next day, as she thought it would be right up our ally. She wasn’t wrong! Her cousin has been making costumes for performers, shows and celebrities for years and is sadly selling his collection as he is dying of cancer. We played dress ups for a couple of hours and left with a dream dress each and a smile from ear to ear.