{"id":43871,"date":"2016-01-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/?p=43871"},"modified":"2019-06-20T21:31:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T04:31:16","slug":"celebration-in-the-oaks-in-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/index.php\/celebration-in-the-oaks-in-new-orleans\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebration in the Oaks in New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"

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December in New Orleans is delightful. Sunny and warm during the day, the evenings are made even more delightful with twinkling lights strung everywhere, music wafting down the streets, and the utter decadence of the Reveillon dinners served throughout the city. Although I was in the city to celebrate a friend’s birthday (and her birthday has been overshadowed her entire life by the, uh, more well-known birthday a few weeks later), I felt it wouldn’t be untoward of me to enjoy some New Orleans specific holiday events prior to her arrival, namely, Christmas in the Oaks.<\/p>\n

Christmas in the Oaks is an annual event in New Orleans’ enormous City Park, an easy streetcar ride away from the French Quarter\/Central Business District. Thousands of lights are strung on their oak trees over a twenty-five acre area, many with a unique New Orleans twist–the Saints’ “Who Dat?” tree, a Mr Bingle* parade float, and an animated light telling of The Cajun Night Before Christmas.<\/p>\n

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