Royal Street

A few days ago, my friends from Lafayette and San Francisco came in. The first thing we did was go to Cafe Du Monde and have a nice little chat. After awhile, we start exploring the French Quarter. One of my friends, who is an art major, loves to go down Jackson square and admire the paintings. Afterwards, we explored Royal street. In the middle of the street, there was a local jazz band playing. Near the jazz band was a tourist shop. This shop had all kinds of souvenirs such as mardi gras beads to voodoo dolls and even a walking cane. Although these are not the typical items you see in a gift shop, it was fascinating to see how different New Orleans is. Another interesting thing I discovered at Royal Street was trying to get this boutique called Hana. When my friends and I saw the sign Hana, we looked to our left and did not see the store. All we saw was this alley way. At first we were hesitant to walk in this alley way, but our curiosity took control of us. As we walked in this alley way, to the right appeared to be an apartment building and in front of us was the store. This was interesting to me because I usually don't take an alley way to get to a store.