Updating this blog is harder than I thought, so I will race through a few days..

[Day 2 - July 2nd] New Orleans

After having a long sleep we woke up at about 3pm and I got to have my long awaited shower :D
We didn't do much today as I was still quite jet lagged but we did take a trip to Walmart with Hannah's Mum so I could get some hair gel.

The store was much bigger than anything in Australia, and the cashier wanted to see some Australian money. I showed her a $5 dollar note and told them how it was plastic, she went crazy over it and called all her other co-workers to come have a look.

After that we came home and Hannah made dinner; Pasta with shrimp.. or Prawns.. I ate prawns. Which is amazing because i NEVER eat seafood apart from fish.
That was about it today we just lazed around! :)

[Day 3 - July 3rd] New Orleans

Today was Hannah's 25th birthday!
We gave her presents the night before because we were up late eating dinner and it was past midnight! We also drank wine so we were up till like 5 am, which of course made us wake up at about 3pm again. ha ha

To left is Hannah's cat Link, in his favorite new box!

We didn't do much today either. Hannah didn't feel like going out so we just ordered Chinese food and stayed in and cuddled!





[Day 4 - July 4th] Independence Day - New Orleans


Today we got an early start for our first real venture outside the house.
We were heading to Hannah's Grandparents ( Maw Maw and Paw Paw's) house in Mississippi, but we stopped for a breather about halfway at a Rest stop, which had a replica Lunar Lander.

A short distance from the rest center there is the NASA Stennis Space Center which test the rocket engines and build some of the parts for spaceships.
You could get a tour bus from the rest stop but they were closed and we were heading elsewhere anyway!

I got to see a lot of the aftermath from Hurricane Katrina today, nearly 3 years later there are still houses and apartment complexes abandoned and in ruins. There was also a lot of empty lots where houses used to be, some of them still had intact swimming pools.

After a bit of a travel we eventually arrived at Hannah's Grandparents house in Bay St. Louis where I met her Grandparents, Uncle, Family friend and 2 funny little doggies! :D

There was also a very old kitty, but I only saw her briefly. For lunch we had hot dogs, they were yum! We stayed for a little while chatted and took some photos (which weren't on my camera) then we made our way to have a look at the coast as they lived about a 5 minute drive away from the beach.

This is the area where I have seen the most destruction so far, lots of really beautiful homes were damaged or completely ruined from the storm. Looking out the other window of the truck however I could see lots of people on the beach setting up bon fires preparing for a july 4th Beach party! Looked like a lot of fun, oh I also saw a few kites as well; including this bizarre one to the left!

After a long drive down the coast and a very sore ass (lol.. Ok it was sore because I was half sitting on the seat, we had to squish 4 people on a 3 seater, but it wasn't too bad.) We arrived at our first stop the Beau Rivage Casino which had a beautiful interior. We stayed there for a while and tried some slot machines and then headed next door to the Biloxi Hard Rock Casino! Which was really awesome, they had a lot of cool stuff there.

After having a few drinks and getting my players card we headed outside to watch the July 4th fire works which were really awesome.



We were standing on the top of the casino carport so we had a really great view!

After the fireworks we headed back inside and Hannahs parents played some more machines. Then we headed back home at about 2 am I think.


As we were leaving I saw this huge truck out the front of the casino and just had to snap it because I have never seen anything like it in Australia!

We got home at about 3, and then her dad showed me all his collectible antiques which was really interesting they have a lot of neat things. :)

And after a long day, we went to bed! :D

More updates coming soon!