It was a hot and sweltering Friday. The streets of New Orleans baked in the unrelenting sun and bugs circled listlessly in the few patches of shade, their cranky buzzing reminding pedestrians that this is a place where cholera and yellow fever ran rampant, where people risked their very lives by daring to live so close to mosquito-infested bayous...
But they thought it was totally worth it.
New Orleans is an amazing city. I was so happy to be there, sweating my make-up off, spending a few bucks to research my next Megan Berry book at the New Orleans Voodoo Museum (and eat crawdaddies and shrimp etoufee and jambalaya, of course...and buy a few really cute voodoo dolls...and some other stuff... Yeah, I went over budget, but the city is in need of tourist dollars so the empty wallet stung less. Not that wallets really sting, but...yeah.)
And now, some pics!
Me, taken by the hubs. I had to have a picture for this newspaper interview so I posed in front of the voodoo dolls. Ugh. Hate having my picture taken! Maybe people will be distracted by the spooky dude on my left...or the clock...or something...
Some voodoo dolls. (Not the cute ones I bought, more authentic ones.)
A zombie whip!! A real zombie whip! For...whipping zombies!! (You know that's going in the next book.)
Some skeleton parts. (Don't mess with the skeleton parts and they won't mess with you. Usually.)
To learn more about these artifacts and the history of voodoo, visit the museum's website:
http://voodoomuseum.com/
Happy Tuesday!
Stacey Jay
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