New Orleans and the state of Louisiana

Hi everyone, I am in New Orleans. I have been walking a lot seeing all the houses and the streets of New Orleans. The city has a lot of history. We are staying in a part of the city called The French Quarter. This is where all the vampire to shows and books are based. One of my favourite shows is a vampire series called The Originals, I have been looking at all the places where they film. 

Yesterday we went on a big tour of the swamp and some of the old plantation houses. 

The swamp tour was awesome because I held an alligator and threw marshmallows in the water for the raccoons. We saw about twenty alligators in the swamp. They have snakes in the trees in the swamp sober had to be careful. 

Then we went to see sugar plantations. I learnt that on the plantations the slaves were treated really badly. The guide told a story about a slave who ran away in the fields through the sugar cane but he got caught and dragged back to the lady who owned the plantation. He then was punished by being burnt with a cattle brand on his head so everyone knew who he belonged to. It buy a hard working slave it cost around $100,000