New Orleans Aquarium and WWII Museum

Today, Stephanie and I went to New Orleans to have a tourist day. We met up with a friend of Stephanie's and I took my camera and we went to the aquarium in New Orleans and the WWII Museum. Both places were neat and I got to learn a lot about fish in the ocean and what happened during WWII. We left Baton Rouge early and started in the aquariam at 10am and stayed for two hours. I loved the fish, sharks, sting rays, penguins, and otters along with the other things there.


Afterwards we went to the WWII museum and I spent over four hours walking through the thing. My favorite piece was about the Pacific battles as I felt closer to that due to my connection with the Philippines. It was neat to see that, but also sobering and sad. We had a good ride back and I was home by 6pm.


There were so many things to see, there were uniforms, guns, tanks, ammunition, oral histories, short videos, and stories showing the strategy that the U.S. and Allies took to storm the beaches at Normany, take out Japanese naval ships, etc. Four and half hours was not enough, and I would like to see it again some time.


Here are just a few pictures, I only took pictures in the outside gallery, because the inside of the place was so melancholy that I didn't want to detract from the ambiance with my camera flashing every few seconds. It was definitly worth the price of admission, only $10.