New Orleans - Horse and Carriage Tour

Today was a designated to be spent  doing a self guided walking tour around New Orleans. We realised that our boys have a very low tolerance level for self-guided walking tours (or any sort of aimless walking at all)... So spent some money and got a half hour ride around the quiet end of the French Quarter. The driver also gave some commentary, giving a potted history of the development of New Orleans, and pointing out some of the more typical house styles, so it turned out to be quite a peaceful half hour.
After that we went to the Tuesday Piano hour that the National Parks Jazz Preservation office puts on, and as it was Scott Joplin's birthday, listened so some glorious rag on the piano, as well as a bit of a history of the development of the ragtime style. The boys got bored about half an hour in, so they went and bought lunch, and we reconvened to eat it in the courtyard of our hotel. It was finally warm enough to do that!
We spent the afternoon in a local park, then had baths, then went and got dinner at a restaurant down the street, which was 70% chosen because we were looking at its menu when Mr 3.5 declared he needed to go to the toilet. He should get commission.