Hi Honey - I'm Home

I got home yesterday, almost 3 hours late, but I'll tell you about that later.

Today, I would like to tell everyone about the most fascinating tour I went on in New Orleans ~ The Cemetery Tour.

In 1799, New Orleans lost many citizens to a Yellow Fever epidemic and also The Great Fire of 1788. The St. Peter cemetery, on the outskirts of the city, was full. There was a belief, that if you buried the dead among the living it contributed to the outbreak of disease.

The cemetery I toured was St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 and was established in 1789.

Most of the tombs in St. Louis Cemetery were designed to house many generations of a family, society or group in the same tomb. The dead were placed in wooden coffins in one of the vaults. The vault opening was loosely closed with mortared brick and a stone tablet sealed the tomb. If someone else died, the vault could be re-opened after at least 1 year and 1 day. The coffin was removed and burned. The decomposed remains were pushed to the back of the tomb or placed beneath the vaults.

There are many prominent people buried in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1:

Homer Plessy - A plaintiff in the 1896 Sumpreme Court case, Plessy vs. Ferguson which delared separate as being equal.

Ernest "Dutch" Morial - New Orleans' first African American Mayor and, my most favorite person:

Marie Laveau - Well-known Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

New Orleans

I may not be coming home ~ just kidding ~ New Orleans is amazing. I really love it here. I have almost completed the top ten list of the things to do in New Orleans while you are here. I went on the Haunted History Tour.

In a word, amazing.

I ate beniets and drank Cafe Au Laute at Cafe Dumont. I didn't think I would like Cafe Au Laute, but OMG, it is really good.

I drank a Hurricane ~ they are NOT all that and a bag of chips. I did listen to jazz ~ I do love jazz.

I hate the hotel I am staying at, as it wasn't the one I was supposed to stay at. That is a blog in and of itself .

Nicholas Cage has a home in the French Quarter, it is actually one of the most haunted places in New Orleans ~ very cool.

Despite the fact that I am having a blast here, I do miss home.

I miss all my guys and I can't wait to regale you with stories of my travels.

On a personal note, this trip was one that my mom and I were supposed to take many years ago, and because of her death, we didn't take it.

I was sitting at Pat O'Briens, in tears today, because she should have been here with me.

Mom, I miss you, and that Hurricane was for you. You would have loved The Big Easy.

We Will Never Forget

Pray Away The Gay and ProLife for ALL

Sarah Palin's church, Wasilla Bible Church, believes that you can "Pray Away The Gay".

Palin is also totally prolife, opposing abortion even in the case of incest and rape.

Let me ask this, if she is prolife, what are her views on the death penalty? And why for the love of God did she do this to a poor moose.


And if she is pro-life for ALL then why does she have THIS in her home:

Finally, if Sarah Palin is prolife for all ~ why is she wearing THIS:

This woman is so wrong for our country on so many levels.

The Ghost In My Kitchen

I am more then positive that I have a ghost in my kitchen.

It all started when Diesel, my Shitzu would wake me up in the middle of the night barking at something or someone that he saw in my kitchen. I never saw anything.

It continued and got worse when I got Chewie. Diesel and Chewie would, on some nights, just bark and growl at this thing that I could not see.

After Chewie passed away, the in the middle of the night barking stopped.

The last two mornings, I get up in the morning fill my coffee pot with water and "what the f@ck" water is overflowing from my coffee pot. Someone or Something has filled my coffee pot with water already.

Yesterday I dismissed it as, "ok, I have a lot on my mind and maybe I forgot that I did this the night before."

But this morning it happened again. I KNOW I did not fill my coffee pot with ANYTHING yesterday.

Me thinks my Ghost is back.