“Where we going ? “ “ A skate park . I’m sooking bad . I don’t want to be coming to New Orleans to see a unique and different part of the world to end up at a skatepark. I had designs on doing a haunted cemetery tour or some vampire ghost thing , I guess we’ll go skating instead . I am reminded by Emma that it is only fair the kids get to have fun too . “Geezus , do they have to ?” Before you know it we are in a Uber on our way to a place known as Parasite . It doesn’t take long after leaving the city centre that we descend into the burbs . It’s real out here , lower class , old weatherboards with veranders , stripped down cars on nature strips and front lawns , decaying roads with little bother in keeping things beautified . The Uber drops us off at an overpass . “ Shit , I think you should’ve dropped into the gun shop first “ I suggest to the Uber driver . She looks back with eyebrows raised and chuckles . It’s a cool steely grey day that adds to the foreboding feel of the place . Fuck we might get our haunting here anyway. I’m grinning to myself now .Ahh ,this will work in my favour. Emma will surely want to leave in 5 minutes . Parasite is a skate park put together in bits and pieces under an overpass with the help of rapper Lil Wayne . This is a place that looks straight out of the set of the movie The Warriors . It’s eerie. The echoey sound of trucks and cars reverberates constantly . The skatepark is actually a partly home made mashup of different ramps , jumps , props and concrete that is broken up beneath the shadows of an old concrete overpass . The kids love it .
After a quick hour we catch an Uber outta there , but I admit I enjoyed being there . Parasite is a great name for this place . It’s grimy , hardcore and not the place too many people from the Southbay of LA would ever expect to see . There’s no lift tickets here .
Now we go where I want to go ..Bloody Marys haunted house .
$38 and 15 minutes later we are outta there . We did have an app on the phone that apparently has an hour of content but we ain’t got the patients for it and forgo the self guided tour to instead pop our head int each room . I thought it pretty lame . I’m guessing my sulking about doing my thing back fired , but I wasn’t about to admit it , not until later after a few beers .
It turns out we should’ve listened to the app as there was a gruesome murder committed upstairs but we thought the props were pretty funny and took the ignorant route instead .
There’s not much we don’t squeeze in in our time here . Later Emma gets her taro read , whilst I get my palm read . $20 handed over and she finished in 30 seconds . That’s another loss ….Emma was much more content with her reading
It’s an eclectic city , we only just touched the edges , but we had a crack .We ate at a new age 3 level restaurant , ate in a brewery , ate Cajun , ate creole , ate gator , ate Poboy , ate jambalaya , ate gumbo , ate catfish , ate shrimp by the shitload ,ate on a steam boat , ate in an old world building , ate at cafe beignet and ate and ate and ole my god am I fucking bloated .
Today swamp touring …..We ate’m yesterday , now let’s see what a real gator looks like
Fucking awesome . Ole Arthur was a legend , right outta Swamp people with his heavy southern swamp accent and his many stories
Tonight we rest in Houston , Texas . Louisiana delivered .
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