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A Ride on the Wild Side
Date: Monday, September 27, 2004
Time: 8:00am-12:00pm
Cost: $55.00
Located just twenty minutes from downtown New Orleans, your
guests will board an airboat and travel into the heart and soul
of South Louisiana‘s Marshes and Swamps. Your guests will feel
transported into a James Bond Adventure as their airboat races
through the bayous and miraculously travel on land. This extraordinary
adventure captures animals in their natural habitat (including
alligators), moss covered cypress, serene surroundings – all this
and so much more just a few feet away.
What better way to explore the waters
and tastes of New Orleans than with “A
Ride on the Wild Side”.
Haunted History Tour
Date: Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Time: 6:30pm-9:00pm
Cost: $40.00
Imagine being guided through the streets of New Orleans in the
dark of night. The colorful city of New Orleans provides the ideal
setting for the paranormal and “Ghostly Encounters.” This historical
city is often the “hot spot” of scandal and within the antiquated,
yet charming; buildings of the French Quarter lay spicy tales of
adulterous love, strange and exotic maladies of the mind, and the
brutalities of slavery.
 On this storytelling evening tour of the French Quarter, your guests
will walk-by the dwellings of numerous ghostly sightings, hear of
mysterious unexplained “happenings” and spine tingling depictions
of spectral interaction with the current residents or employees. The
accounts of pacing shadows and the day-to-day inexplicable interaction
with these lost souls will tantalize
the mind and shutter the soul.
This tour will include cocktails at the
historical Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop and
Old Absinthe’s House.
Jean Lafitte Swamp Adventure
Date: Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Time: 8:00am-12:00pm
Cost: $39.00
Come with us, only 30 minutes (20 miles) from downtown New
Orleans to enjoy a journey by boat, Cajun style, into the heart of
Louisiana’s beautiful and natural swamplands.
Your boat will travel deep into the swamps and meandering bayous
of this exciting region. Be sure to bring your camera as you may
encounter exciting and beautiful animals at any time. Alligators,
snakes, nesting eagles, egrets, white-tailed deer, mink and nutria
all flourish in this untamed land. Your guide is a native of the area
who knows firsthand, the various sources of food and plant life that
thrive throughout the year in this “virgin” area.
History comes alive as your guide recounts the exploits of the
pirate, Jean Lafitte, and his band that plied these waters during the
infancy of our country. Come see for yourself, Louisiana’s mysterious
waters and moss-draped bayous
made famous in song and story. The
adventure of Jean Lafitte awaits you!
Laura Plantation
Date: Monday, September 27, 2004
Time: 8:30am-12:00pm
Cost: $27.00
Built in 1805, Laura Plantation was first inhabited by the Colapissa
Indians, who lived in huts behind the manor house as late as 1815.
Since then, Laura has been home to Senegalese Creole slaves,
Acadian immigrants, French aristocrats, Spanish colonials, Cane
River Creoles and German families who gave the German Coast
its name. While most antebellum homes evoke images of hoop
skirts and white columns, Laura Plantation presents a different
view of three centuries of Creole life through two families of sugar
cane farmers.
You will learn the history of Laura’s ancestors, and find out who was
in charge of the entire plantation. Laura Plantation was the largest
distributor of Bordeaux wines in Louisiana in the 1800’s; in fact, the
family made more money through the distribution
of wines than from sugar cane.
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