It's very hard to describe adequately all that we saw at the museum - nearly as hard as it would be to fully explain the experience of a Mardi Gras parade itself. The Blain Kern Studio is responsible for creating most of the floats used in Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The floats are all built at this location, and our tour took us through the actual workplace, as artists worked on portions of floats for next year's Mardi Gras.
Here's Kathy at the entrance to the museum posing with some of the figures created by the Blain Kern Studio:
As we started the tour, we were given time to take photos of ourselves with various Mardi Gras figures. Here's a photo of Kathy with Rex:
David chose to be a jester:
There were so many fantastical figures stored in the warehouse! We were given freedom to wander around and take photos as we pleased. Here are some that we found particularly interesting:
Wait! One of the figures in the following photo wasn't a typical Mardi Gras figure. How did he get there?
After the Mardi Gras museum, we walked through the Warehouse District over to the National World War II Museum - a complex of several buildings with various superb exhibits on the history of WWII. We had a chance to view "Beyond All Boundaries," the Tom Hanks 4D movie summarizing the events of the war. We then toured the rest of the exhibits, spending nearly 3 hours in the war museum.
After the National World War II Museum, we walked back to the Convention Center and through Riverwalk, a mall of shops along the Mississippi River, and then along the river itself, back to Crescent City Brewhouse in the French Quarter, the only micro-brewery in that area. After a refreshing brew, we used the rest of our visit today strolling through the French Market and further along the river before catching the shuttle back to the campground.
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