Humo & Kaz take on the World: New York - New Years

My cousin

Andy & I New Years Eve, The Plumm, New York City

Time Square

Landing at La Guardia Airport, New York City. Manhattan in the background

Time Square around 3pm New Years Eve. People line up along the street from 11am, they wait all day/night with no public toilets available, no alcohol allowed and if you move to get food you loose your spot.It took Andy over an hour (no kidding) to walk from that red billboard up the back to this spot here.

More crowd pics. At 6pm they block you off into your sections and from then on you can't get in or out.

World Trade Centre Site

Luckily, our hotel was along a street off time square so was shut down to all traffic and the general public. Because of our hotel location we were allowed in of course, so were able to sneak up and grab a few photos before heading to the club we had tickets for.

Standing at Time Square looking towards out classy Hotel Carter

Entrance to the Rockafella Centre

Time Square from the hotel

Rockafella Centre...remember in Home Alone

Welcome to Louisianna! We just crossed the border from Alabama and Mississippi

The Mississippi- New Orleans

The birdge going over the huge lake surround the top of New Orleans. There is a bridge a little to the right in this photo and it's actually the longest in the world. We didn't go over it..I think they said it's 23miles or somethings and when you're out in the middle you can't see anything but water and it feels like you're in the middle of the ocean on a road.

Jackson Square

The French Quarter New Orleans

Bourbon Street- what a street!

The Sugar Bowl (championship college football) was on whilst we were in town. The place was going crazy (and it was a wed night). Everyone was dressed up in Purple (New Orleans) or Green (Notre Dame) so Andy and I had to fit in with the crowd so ended up buying t-shirts. Another local custom involves the beads around
Andy's neck. As you walk down Bourbon Street people from the 2nd story throw beads down at you. You end up getting heaps and heaps and everyone wears them around for the night. It wasn't until later when we meet a few locals and went back to their house for a few drinks did we realise that they throw them at you so that flash them a little…friendly bunch they are!

One of the many swamp homes (hicks, cajun's)

The swamps...unfortunately it wasn't a sunny day so we didn't get to see the thousands of aligators that live there. We did see some turtles, but quite disappointed because the brochure said we'd see beavers, hogs, bear, aligators, raccoons etc.

Bridge in the swamp lands.
Need to phone ahead 4 hours to lift the bridge.

The French Quaters- no signs of a hurricane at all...very lucky

Andy and I went driving all aournd New Orleans to see what was left of the devastation. As you can see in the pictures, so many houses have been abandoned. In some areas people are still out there everyday clearing the mess and trying to fix up their homes. A lot of people are alos now living in trailors out the front of their ruined homes. It was quite sad to see and even sadder to think that all these families have lost their homes and now have to live in trailors...also even though it's been about 16 months many areas are still without running water, power and phone lines.

The New Orleans Super dome

Some of the many trailors

Whole suberbs are filled with these empty, ruined, washed out houses. All are marked in spray paint to be demolished or not to be demolished

Andy, Bunin & I at Bunin's Brooklyn apartment ready to head out

A turned up car in a residential area...still untouched...there is just too much to clean up. Even the swamp land areas have the odd truck, car, fridge, couch, tv etc floating around.