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Don't be fooled by the people that tell you"It's worth it..." cause it's NOT worth it! Even when it's only 5 or 6 bucks per person to get in. It's NOT worth it!! You will walk around bored out of your mind feeling guilty if you leave without sufficiently wasting your time there because you've just spent money to get inside.
The Convent is MUCH smaller than it appears on the diagram in the brochure. You only get to walk around the first floor and there simply is not much worth looking at. There's an old wood desk, and a small sad room where they locked up the poor orphans apparently, and that's pretty much it. Oh, and you can step outside into the garden (where nothing but grass is growing) where there are some statues of people praying and they aren't even old statues. Go to Rome.
The Presbytere had a Zulu Exhibit for $6/person. We didn't know what we were getting ourselves into, we blindly paid and went in. First mistake. Maybe this experience soured us before going to the Ursuline Convent. Not to put down the culture nor the significance of this group of people and their traditions, but we're just saying, the Bob Mackie designs on display at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, showing all of Cher's old stage costumes, was about the same with a bit more flare. It was boring. We left without seeing everything.
If someone drags into this Convent, then I suppose you will enjoy the one thing we enjoyed which was the Miniature display of the city of New Orleans. That was kinda cool. And a great place to pee in a nice bathroom before you continue on your way.
The best thing about the Zulu Exhibit was the air conditioning.
Just walk around the OUTSIDE of all these museums, they are the coolest part! And you can imagine far better than what you will actually get to see inside. Leave a Comment
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The police is very aggressive on writing traffic violations. There is a small "no left teurn between 7 to 9 am" sign at N. Peters and Bienvile (first traffic light after going from Canal Street) that is not very obvious because the sign is placed on the traffic light, not before the intersection. I've seen a single police officer stopped 5 cars in less than 3 minutes! During that 3 minutes, the officer could not even finish writing the first ticket (for 3 times).
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