Day 3 in NOLA: cherry blossoms, graffiti and a bad bday

Date: 24.2.2014

I'm bummed our trip to NOLA was so short, 2 days wasn't nearly enough in the city, especially during Mardi Gras -season. Also I would've wanted to CELEBRATE my 30th birthday, which was the point why I wanted to travel this time of the year - instead of it I sat in planes and nothing else happened. One of my travelling companions got the energy to wish me happy birthday on my Facebook wall and that was it... Fuckin' un-awesome.

Without the sweet girls & guy in the morning, the whole day would have sucked major ass, at least, I can always remember those sweet people who celebrated with me for that brief moment :). Not to mention those almost 140 persons on Facebook and other medias who wished me HBD, it really warmed my heart <3. Thanks guys, it meant truly a lot to me!

After packing our stuff, we headed to the cafe we visited yesterday. I ordered some pancakes and explained that it was my birthday. The cashier immediately told me that my coffee was free. She also explained be about a southern custom to put a safety pin on your shirt with a dollar as a sign that it's your birthday and people would add some dollars to it.

The pancakes tasted awesome, completely different than the ones I've eaten on a earlier trip in some fancy restaurant (I didn't like them at all). While sitting at the table, the cashier came with a safety pin and put my first dollar on it, another waiter came and added one more, and another soon after. I also got some free hugs, which felt nice.

Outside we noticed more cherry trees blossoming and went to photograph them, I'm a bit bummed I didn't get my DSLR out of the car and had to photograph with the Lumix, but you don't always win. I've decided these blossoming cherry trees were my birthday gift.

After photographing the flowers we went to find a geocache next to the cafe, and stumbled upon -once again- some beautiful graffiti.

Selfish selfie next to a beautiful graffiti of a photographer

After this we headed to one of the old cemeteries in French Quarter, more on that next post..

Everyone is hiring, even NOPD is hiring :)