In New Orleans

Hi Everyone,

I spent Friday and Saturday in New Orleans, Louisiana. I explored this beautiful old city with the members of my team. They were celebrating the French Quarter Festival with all kinds of music. New Orleans is considered the birthplace of jazz. So we heard lots of brass bands and dixieland jazz at the festival. We also heard a kind of "Cajun" music which comes from from the 18th century songs of the Acadians. These were French speaking people who were expelled form Nova Scotia by the British.




A typical brass band.



These little guys are what's for dinner in New Orleans. Do you know what they are?

We even saw our first caterpillar before we left the city. This one is a buck moth caterpillar. These caterpillars live and feed only on oak trees. We have a lot of oak trees in Maryland. Have you ever seen a caterpillar like this one?