Thanksgiving

Thursday morning, Renate Maria and me went downtown. We took the ferry to get to the other side of the Mississippi river, this part of the city is called Algiers. When walking around in this neighbourhood, we realized that this must be a less wealthy area. Or maybe that's just where normal the middle class lives and we are getting used to all those impressive mansions uptown?

St.Louis Cathedral from a different perspective

 some houses seemed to be still desolated from Katrina

Then we walked around through French Quarter, had coffee and beignets in Café du Monde again, listenend to street-musicians...

 

Also, Thursday was finally the "real Thanksgiving-day"... Thanksgiving is the most important family holiday in the United States. Families from all over the country come together to celebrate. The highlight is of course the dinner, traditionally turkey and numerous side-dishes such as sweet mashed potatos, corn-bread and different salads.

Certainly, my girls and me didn't wanna miss the possibilty to do a real Thanksgiving dinner too ;) We invited some friends and had a good time!