It's amazing to me that you can turn one of these big boats around and head the other way.  That's exactly what we did as we headed down the Muddy Mississippi toward the Gulf.  A few river boats floated by complete with Dixie-land jazz music playing.
   
As we were looking at all the sky-scrapers, what should float by............

but a barge full of campers.  I guess that's one way to float down the Mississippi River. Wonder if it was Bubba and all his relatives?

This was as close as we got to the French Quarter.  Hopefully we can make a trip back there some day and really do some sight seeing.

 This was our Easter Dinner and YES!!, it's my long lost brother!  He and my sister-in-law did make it on the boat but it seems they had about as interesting a flight and connections as we did.  Little did we know, we were on different airlines.

Tara found the Easter Bunny! I've never seen her enjoy sitting on his lap as she was this time - - wonder why?

Later in the day, we attended the Captain's Dinner.

David slipped out on the deck in time to get a few shots of our first sunset out on the water.

     

Go ahead, peek in our port-hole for the more of the story!