War of Worlds

I will believe in this fake news report definitely. My reaction hmmm I think it will be kind of really weird reaction. I think it will look like that: When I was listening to this news I couldn’t believe about aliens attacking US, but when I heard people from government and police officers from another cities talking all the time about aliens and their attacks in the radio, I took my shotgun and the knife, and as fast I could, I ran to the neighbors to tell them about this terrifying story. When I came back, I barricaded in my house and I prepared for the worst scenario. I wasn’t sure if I can defend myself with a shotgun or knife, so I started to freak out. I started to hear strange sound, like somebody was walking around my home. I had to calm down and just think about evacuation in case that they will be here. I was so nervous that I took my whisky and I sat in front of the doors pointing my shotgun in every direction where I heard something strange. I was so nervous that soon I get drunk so bad that I just feel asleep.

The Andrew Jackson Hotel

Finally I've arrived! After a long trip I'm in New Orleans and luckily I found this hotel located at 919 Royal St in the heart of the French Quarter. I got this beautiful room in the second floor. I'm so tired, I better go to sleep, it's so late and tomorrow is going to be a long day!

Oh my god! what was that? It's 5:00am and I just felt something touching my back, so weird. I'm not sleepy any more, but wait I'm hearing something, are that children's laughing? at this time? I'm going to check.

Ok, it's 6:00am and nothings was going on outside, I heard the laugh but was nobody outside, not at the hallway nor at the inside garden. I did some research and found some interesting stuff. A long time ago this hotel was an all boy's school that burn and in the fire five children died, the ghosts of those children can be heard in this hotel, sometimes their laugh, sometimes their screams. If that is true luckily I heard the laughs! It's getting late for me to go shopping, my room is a mess but i'll clean it later, I have a long day to go!

I'm coming back from my day of shopping and what y found scared me. My room have been cleaned and this hotel doesn't have room service! As you can imagine i did some more research and I found some more interesting histories. This time is about one housekeeper that likes moving things inside the messy rooms. Well I don't think how that could be a bad thing, the only thing i ask is that she doesn't do it while i'm in the room!

After a great night at Bourbon Street finally i'm at my room ready to sleep, but i'm hearing the laughing again and the worse part is that i think that i saw something while i was walking to my room. Standing at the end of the hallway was this "shadow" with the head looking down and the arms tight in his back, that scared me, but what is scaring me more is that i'm hearing the laughs and some kind of deep screamings, i can't go to sleep. This is enough for me, I'm leaving this place.

My favorite house

 Lalaurie House is my favorite house from all the haunted houses. This is the most haunted house in New Orleans and also it is the most top ten haunted house in the Untied States. The ghosts from the Lalaurie house wanted to tell us about the story. Delphine and her husband, Leonard are killers. They killed a lot of slaves in their house. The ghosts wanted to ask help from anyone to catch Delphine and Leonard back to New Orleans from French. Although the salves died and people found the truth, Delphine and Leonard still ran away and didn't get the Legal punishment. So, the ghosts would still in the house forever. Although they were salves, they worked for the owner, but they couldn't kill them. Of course, I world be scared. Yesterday, I just saw the movie, "Para Normal". I was a little scared, if I saw the ghosts, I would told them I knew Delphine and Leonard were bad people. I will tell all the people about them, so nobody would like them.
 

Jean Lafitte National Historical Park

We went to a swamp tour today, but unfortunately, we didn't see any alligator. Now, at the beginning of October, there are a lot of weeds in the river. The guide of the swamp tour told us that they would clean the weeds up at the beginning of December. It was a tired trip, but I still saw some natural animals, such as: snakes, lizard, spider, squirrels. The second picture, the big yellow spider was sleeping at that time. It didn't move until we left. There are a lot of lizards in Jean Lafitte National Historical Park. I saw several different kind of colors. The guide, who is a kind and helpful volunteer person, told me the lizards could changed their color. During the copulate season, the male lizards change their color to find the female lizards. Sometimes, the male lizards fight with the same male lizards, but they don't real fight a lot. I really enjoyed this swamp tour, hope I can see alligator next time.   

The Backstreet Museum

The backstreet museum is a small house where you can see mardi gras costumes and funeral jazz information and their history and why they are like that.

The mardi gras indians are part of the parades and the

Traditions of the mardi gras, they are African American people who dress costumes that are influence by the Native

Americans.

These costumes are handmade and their made of feathers,

stones and cardboard and they take almost 1 year to make

them and they are really expensive. They are different

costumes for each person in the tribe they have the chief

costume the wife of the chief the flag boy who avoids who carry the flag of the tribe so the others tribes can see them.

Other thing that catch my attention was the north side bone gang, they are a group of people that

dress skeleton costumes during mardi gras and they go knocking door to door waking you up and

the chief is Bruce Sunpie Barnes.

The Backstreet Museum

The backstreet museum is one of those places where you can smell history and tradition. It is a small house at the Treme, but is full with customs, photos and other interesting things from the African American culture.One of those things are the Mardi Gras Indians.

The Mardi Gra Indians are one of the most important traditions in New Orleans. It is all about people in customs who go out to the streets and dance, but what a customs! The customs are handmade since the year before with feathers, beads, stones and a lot of things that make of these customs really art objects. These customs can cost an average of 60,000$

There are also different types of customs and each one represent a character in the group. There is The Big Chief who always wear the biggest suit, then comes The Queen who is the Chief's wife, also is the flag boy and his job is to go ahead from the group looking for other Indian's Families and avoid their encounter, and is also the wild boy, his custom have horns and his job is to put away the crowd to give space to the Chief and his group to pass trough. All the representers from a group wear the same color and each group have a different color

There are also The Baby Dolls. These are woman dress up whit fancy customs and umbrellas and dance with the parades through the Treme. The history behind this tradition is that these Baby Dolls where in fact “ladies of the night” who where used to stand on the corners of the Treme and wait for the customer to satisfy their carnal desires.