Friday, November 20, 2009

Oak Alley



The day that I visited this plantation, the Annual Spring Arts and Crafts Fair was going on. As I later found out, my tour was quite different from the normal tour, as a result of the arts and crafts fair being held on the ground. While the normal tour (per my roommate's experience), has one tour guide taking visitor through the house, the tour that I went on had a differnt guide in period dress introduce visitors to each room in the house. It would seem that I got a better tour than my roommate did! :)

While Oak Alley is supposed to be known for their mint juleps, I did not care for the one I ordered. :/

Coincidentally, the weekend that I toured Oak Alley coincided with the Lifetime Channel's premiere weekend of Nora Robert's Midnight Bayou, which was filmed at Oak Alley. I was totally unaware of this when planning my trip, however, it was really cool to tour the planatation by day and then go home to watch a movie filmed there that night!

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  1. AnonymousNovember 23, 2009 at 8:41 PM

    You definitely got the better tour.. My tour guide was too hot...distractingly hot.. she kept on sidling up to the various fans that were set up around and looked like she was melting. They make them wear large dresses. She gave us the tour in a loud, singsong way, like we were little kids. There were only 4 of us so we kept on looking around wondering who she was talking to. There was, however, ample parking. All joking aside, Oak Alley is really worth seeing. The oak trees, in particular. so beautiful.

    I also did not care for my mint julep.

    --the roommate

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  2. AnonymousNovember 23, 2009 at 9:06 PM

    I've been told that I need to clarify my previous comment. I was not attracted to my tour guide. she was just very hot in her outfit. not hubba hubba hot.

    --the roommate

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