New Orleans: being a tourist

Today was tourist day, and it was most enjoyable. The temperature is hovering around the 97 mark with high high humidity. It is God's country.
Darrell kindly drove us downtown where we caught the street car to take to the end of the line and back. It is the best deal in New Orleans at 1.25 a person.
"The Saint Charles Avenue Line starts uptown, at South Carrollton Avenue and South Claiborne Avenue. It runs on South Carrollton Avenue through the Carrollton neighborhood towards the Mississippi River, then near the river levee turns on to Saint Charles Avenue. It proceeds past entrances to Audubon Park, Tulane University and Loyola University New Orleans, continues through Uptown New Orleans including the Garden District, and ends at Canal Street in the New Orleans Central Business District at the edge of the French Quarter, a distance of about seven and a half miles. Officially the St. Charles Avenue Line is designated as Route 12. Planning for the line began in 1831, and work began as the New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad in February 1833, the second railway in Greater New Orleans after the Pontchartrain Rail Road. Service began on September 26, 1835, originally without a dedicated right-of-way (it ran on public streets) although one was eventually established in the neutral ground (the median). Passenger and freight cars were hauled by steam locomotive."
It is a very fun time, but so so many of the big mansions along the way and the normal houses were all still boarded up, people are still waiting to see what that next storm is going to do. There were still lots and lots of downed limbs from the last storm.
We rode it to the end of the line, got off, went into a grocery store to look for some popcorn rice to take home ( they didn't have any) then got back on for the ride back into town. We walked back over the the Quarter to get some lunch at central grocery, BUT, they have yet to re-open from the evacuation. We went into St Louis Cathedral then went across the street to have some beignets and a cafe au lait at Cafe Du Mond!
Our tourist day was complete!