More From New Orleans

We are really enjoying New Orleans. Outside is hot, the air-conditioning cool and the food is great! We took a tour of the D-Day Museum,
the pharmacy museum and the aquarium. The D-day Museum was hard for both T and I simply because it is an issue that touches both of our families. D-Day was one of those events that changed the world. I learned just how pivotal this event was. Had D-Day failed the second half of the twentieth century would have been governed by Nazism or Communism. War is a devastating thing and at the same time what would the world look like today if it weren’t for those brave WWII soldiers and their families? New Orleans was the center for manufacturing of the cigar box shaped landing boats that were used in WWII. Those boats were seen by President Eisenhower as a big factor in winning the war.
The pharmacy museum was fantastic. We got the opportunity to touch almost everything- including a set of fake eyes made in 1900, a civil war limb amputation kit, an turn of the century wheelchair, a 1940’s birthing bed and tools used in blood letting.
The most exciting thing though- for me- was our visit to the Audubon Aquarium. .T and I got to touch a penguin! I'll write more about that later- have to go now...