Day 8 - Going Home

12-26-14, Friday.

All good things must come to an end and today we had to fly home (insert very sad face). After we checked out of our condo, we headed over to Lake Pontchartrain for one last look. We figured this would be our last time visiting New Orleans and wanted to get one last photo op.


Jim, Laura & Kevin



Looking across Lake Pontchartrain to the north shore - which is 25 miles away!

Our rental car - a Toyota mini van

The mini van worked out great. It had 3 rows of seats with enough room in the very back to hold the luggage for all five of us. Both side doors opened so it made getting in/out easy for everyone.

Kevin had one last request before leaving Louisiana - Waffle House for a late breakfast/early lunch! Since we don't have Waffle Houses in Washington or Idaho, we all agreed!

After we ate, we headed back to Kenner for one last look at the Mississippi River. It's a mighty river, but very ugly. I'm used to blue rivers in Washington, and the Mississippi is the color of mud. I have no idea which was up the river or down the river but I took a picture both ways!

 Kevin & Laura had the first flight out in the early afternoon. Jim, Tracy & I weren't leaving until later in the day. After we dropped Kevin & Laura off we tried to go to a mall in Metairie (I wanted to go to the Vera Bradley store to see if they were having any after Christmas sales) but the traffic was so bad we ended up just turning around and heading back to the airport.

There were a lot of unhappy babies on our flight home - all of them right by our seats. Fortunately I had my noise-reducing headphones on watching a movie so it wasn't too bad. Unfortunately, the row we were in was directly in front of the emergency exit rows so our seats didn't recline at all. I was hoping to get some rest since we didn't land until 9:30 p.m. and still needed to stop and eat, go pick up our car at Jim's dad's house and then drive almost 3 hours across the state to our house. We got home at 1:30 a.m. safe and sound!