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Thanksgiving Week Trip: Day Five

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New Orleans, Louisiana: Today is the final day of our New Orleans vacation.  It has been a whirlwind of a trip as we tried to experience as much of the city as we could in the time that we were in town.  But before we boarded our flight back to Florida this evening, we still had a day of exploration left. Despite the fact that we had planned to much stuff with not enough days to get it done, I was still determined to cross a couple more off the list. The day began with us boarding the St Charles Streetcar Line after breakfast for a trip to the Garden District.  One of the things that I have heard through the trip was that we needed to visit a New Orleans cemetery.  So we decided to head over to the Lafayette Cemetery in the Garden District and take a self guided walking tour.  Having seen tradition in-ground burial cemeteries my whole life, it was weird seeing them all buried above ground.  It was also creepy at some points because there were quite a fe...