Jacqueline’s Jaunts

20 April 2025, Easter, New Orleans Resort and Marina Jeeps-2 Happy Easter, Everyone! It is hard to believe we are celebrating Easter in New Orleans. It is wild. Today, we attended two parades: the Easter parade and the LGBTQ Easter parade. Both parades were very colorful and a lot of fun. People in the floats or cars threw little toys, beads, and trinkets into the crowd.  We ate, had a few drinks, and walked around between parades.  I decided to post photos of the parades since this is what we did all day. The images will give you a better idea of what we experienced than my words can describe. Today was the 24th Gay Easter Parade.  One last note: Between the four of us, we did not take many photos of the Easter parade, but we did take a ton of photos of the "colorful" Gay Easter Parade. EASTER PARADE You can see Ken crossing the  street after the float passed Barry is collecting beads and glasses GAY EASTER PARADE PRE-PARADE PHOTOS THE GAY EASTER PARADE Love the pu...

19 April 2025, New Orleans Resort and Marina, Louisiana Barry's Birthday Today is Barry's Birthday, and we spent the morning at the WWII National Museum. What an incredible place. The museum has five buildings of exhibits, some of which hold complete planes, boats and machinery. We spent most of the day in the Campaigns of Courage: European and Pacific Theaters, building since my grandfather, R D Griffin, served in the army. This part of the museum started when we landed in Normandy. Some of the displays are heartbreaking, especially the areas covering the internment camps. There is one area where you stand in a forest and hear bombs going off. In another area, you are in a building with a massive hole in the roof and you can see plans flying over. Looks very real.  One display has a wall with hundreds of dog tags mounted on it to represent the 16.4 million Americans who served. It's awe-inspiring when you stand there and look at all of them. I wish I had my grandfather...