Today we spent the day in the French Quarter and started off at the New Orleans School of Cooking. I had so much fun shopping at the farmers market and cooking with everyone, it was definitely a highlight of the trip so far. We spent the rest of the day exploring the French Quarter.
Yesterday we went on a levee failure tour in the Lower Ninth Ward. This area was devestated as the flood wall protecting it from the Industrial Canal catastrophically failed. The area has been very slow to recover, as many of the property lots still lie empty, some with only concrete slabs indicating where houses used to be.
Photo showing the new t-wall flood protection system, standing at 14.5 ft tall, now protecting the Lower Ninth Ward.
