New Orleans 2004

This is Alferd Packer's skull! They have Alferd Packer's skull at the Ripley's Believe It Or Not museum in New Orleans! This is the only picture I took for some reason. I've always wanted to go to a Ripley's museum but no one ever wants to go because it's a rip off. Sure enough, it's a rip off, but at least they don't dump you in a gift shop when you're done (nope, they dump you out on the side of the building on a dark street where muggers and rapists await. Just kidding, but it was dark and scary for lonely me).

The reason I decided to visit the museum other than a dire need to see if the old saying about a fool and her money is true was to also kill time before my BITCHIN GHOST EXPEDITION! I wanted to walk down to the Jax Brewery while it was still mostly daylight and figured I'd hang out in the vicinity until the time was right.

Before hitting the museum I had a nice dinner at the Alpine, I had barbecue shrimp. The only problem with this: the shrimp were WHOLE. Heads and all. I HATE shrimp that aren't deveined! But it was delicious, heads or no.

And let me just take a moment to say the museum was awfully light on the Jack Palance and awfully heavy on the Dean Cain. I say more Jack, less Dean, but that's just me.