Garden District/Mardi Gras World

At my insistence, we went back to the Surrey Cafe for breakfast. Afterwards we drove down to the Garden District, which is bordered by St. Charles Avenue, 1st Street, Magazine Street and Toledano.

This area is so gorgeous to walk around...a former plantation area and now just beautiful homes. A couple of interesting things about this older area, some of the streets have tiled signage on the sidewalks and there are areas where you can see seashells in the asphalt on the road.
Within this area is the Lafayette Cemetary, which we walked around. Carly and I hid amongst the above ground crypts and tried to scare Terrell. She did not think it was funny, especially after she stepped in some mud.
Next stop...another "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives" place, the Creole Creamery at 4924 Prytania Street. They had great home made ice cream. We had to be quick, since we wanted to get to Mardi Gras World.
Mardi Gras World, 1380 Port of New Orleans Place, is a great place to tour. First off, I had no clue they reused so many floats every year...and they have full time float builders working on creations as you tour. Since I love giant stuff, this place was a favorite for me. I got to "kick" a giant football and spent a lot of time trying to grab Mardi Gras beads that were still stuck on the floats. The tour guide had said, "As you pass these floats you'll notice beads hanging there that got stuck when being thrown during the parade, help yourself." Of course, that became my focus and I kept getting behind the tour because of it.
Before we headed out of town, we stopped at Ted's Frostop Burgers, 3100 Calhoun Street, to see the upside down root beer mug. Apparently this mug had been on top of the pole outside the restaurant until Hurricane Katrina hit. The wind toppled it over and it landed perfectly upside down and didn't break. The owners decided to leave it that way. Another pretty cool oddball roadside attraction.