Day 11, Sunday, January 7, 2007

Foggy and 64 this morning.

Stayed cloudy all day and rained hard around noon. Didn't last long but it stayed cloudy and muggy all day. Arranged for another cemetery tour this afternoon - The Metairie. Ellen will fill in the color here as well. We went back to the French Market to see the IMAX. Then into the French Quarter to have an early dinner at the Red Fish Grill. Back to the motor home by 6:30.


I could spend all day in Metairie Cemetery. It is much larger & grander than Layafette with a lot of famous, wealthy people buried here. This is the Mausoleum of The Ruths' Chris steakhouse chain. The detail and the grounds surrounding this tomb are beautiful. (If you click on the pictures, they enlarge.)

Some of the older tombs in Metairie, many of which are Confederate soldiers.

The weeping dog is at the base of a very large Mausoleum. See the red bow? Someone is constantly changing the bow, but supposedly no one knows who for the family is all gone.

This is the tomb of Anne Rice. She is still living, but her husband Stan is buried here.

We walked inside this mausoleum of solid marble to see the weeping angel, one of the most photographed sites of any cemetery in the U.S. It is very surreal.

Tomb & sarcophagus of a French hairstylist who made it big in the stock market in the 19th century. It is gigantic and built of white Alabama marble costing $60,000 in his time. In todays' market it would be difficult to estimate what it would cost to build.

Memorial of a mother & daughter who drowned at sea in 1898. The detail and size of these tombs is hard to grasp by looking at the pictures.