That seems like a nice weekend except all the work.

I went to New Orleans with the wife and a friend of her, who was actually a katrina victim, and was forced to move to Arkansas after the disaster. She still had family there so we tagged along with her and she gave us a tour of the place and told us how things were before.
I don't exactly know how many years katrina was but New Orleans is looking good these days, practically everything is rebuilt already, and some things built up from the ground even better than they were before. We had a nice tour all through the downtown and especially on the french quarters, where we ended up sitting in a coffee shop called "Cafe du monde" or something like that, and that I can honestly say is where I had the best tasting coffee ever since I arrived in the USA.