"One little tip about New Orleans, make good note where you park your car. I've lost a couple there. "

ROFLMAO! I've done the same thing. Once I lost a car for three days and thought it had been towed. After calling NOPD and all of their tow lots for two days only to find that they never towed the car, we reported it stolen. Turns out that we were too drunk to remember where we parked it in the Quarter. We just happend to park in an area that doesn't get towed. What are the odds of that in NO?

After we found the car, we had to call off the NOPD....not that they were ever looking for the car! The NOPD told us that we had to track down a cop so he could do an inspection on the car and verify that I actually had the car and was the legal owner. Finally got that straight but it was a PITA!

The night we lost the car my drunk friend decided to wait on a park bench while I looked for my car. I looked for around an hour but never found the car. When I came back to get my friend, I noticed his shoes had been stolen off of his feet while he was passed-out. The bench was just about in front of the area where the Aquarium of the America's is now located. It was a very well lit area in the middle of downtown an not the kind of place you would think someone was going to rob you of your shoes. Huh, nope, this is NO and anything can happen. That was funny as hell walking up to find my friend had no shoes on his feet in the middle of Mardi Gras at 4:00 AM. Life sucked for him!

Anyway, enjoy New Orleans but don't drink too much because you never know what might happen to your shoes......or your car!