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City Park

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Nov 20 – Today we ventured beyond where our feet could take us, further north to City Park. Our mission was to master the transit system and visit The New Orleans Museum of Art.

Our hotel concierge showed us how to download the Le Pass app, which magically integrated with Google Maps. Type in your destination, and you pay right in the app. A single ride is $1.25, but we paid for a 24 hour Jazzy Pass so we could hop on and off as needed. The fare is the same whether you choose a bus or a streetcar, so who wouldn’t choose a streetcar?

There are different color streetcars for different parts of town. Today we are on the red line. The streetcars run down the center of the street, between the lanes of traffic.
In 20 minutes, we arrived at the New Orleans Museum of Art, situated in City Park
The sea from the dead fishes’ perspective?
Here are two different paintings of John the Baptist preaching to the people.
Which one do you prefer?
Interesting faces
What is she thinking?
Both of these have a local swampy feel
The artist is unknown
A whole wall of sea-themed plates!
We always recognize St. James when we see him. This is Santiago Matamoros – St James killing the Moors.
A comfy chair and a not so comfy chair
Death Visits the Banquet
This is an odd one – Madonna and the infant Jesus flanked by John the Baptist (who you may recall is only a few months older than Jesus) and St. Peter (who did not meet Jesus until about 30 years later).
Behind the museum was a huge sculpture garden with lots of interesting pieces
Live oak with Spanish moss
Gator
Bear
Snail
A mirrored labyrinth
Karma
This one was called Maybe, Maybe Not
A horse for Lexi
Then we jumped back on the streetcar and tootled back home!