six feet of water in the streets of evangeline

Again I'm behind on blogging, as was pointed out to me - it seems ya'll are liking the blog!
Day two in Chicago was spent wandering around the town. I went up the Sears tower, the tallest building in the US. I spent about an hour in line, and then spent about 10 minutes up the top, haha.

They have these freaky ledge things completely made of glass - different from the Sky Tower's glass floor, because these ones literally stick out over the edge of the building.
Then I kept walking around - it was super hot, so it was nice to be outside. I visited Buckingham Fountain, which was cool - heaps of water!

Next up was the 20 hour train trip from Chicago to New Orleans. Thanks to mum and dad, I had a sleeper car for this trip! It was awesome - I had the best sleep, and no crazies!

And I got to the hostel, and there are 2 guys from Taradale here - they went to school with Matt and Josh, which is totally crazy. All the way to New Orleans, and I can't get away from home.

Today I caught the streetcar into the French Quarter (which was cool in itself). First stop was St Louis Cathedral, apparently the oldest Cathedral in the US. I know I said the church in Boston was cool, well this one was fantastic. Us Catholics sure know how to decorate a church, that's for sure.

Then I walked around the French Quarter, and through the French Market. It is so cool around there. New Orleans is totally unique - NY, Boston and Chicago are almost interchangable, but New Orleans is pretty amazing. There's really one word to describe it - sultry. No wonder Rhett brought Scarlett here for their honeymoon. I only hope it was not during summertime, because it was stinking hot. It's crazy, there were just people walking around drinking cocktails at 10am!

I walked down along the Mississippi river:

And then this afternoon, I took a steamboat cruise down the Mississippi, which was really cool:

I actually took heaps of photos around New Orleans today, but they are mostly of buildings - who knew I was such an architecture fan?!? The wrought iron railings on the balconies around here are so pretty.

I have a 7am train to Atlanta tomorrow morning, and will be travelling all day.