One word if warning, try to avoid the week between Christmas and New Years. It was a circus. One of our main goals this trip was to go to the WWII museum for two days. The first day we arrived late and the place was packed! It was too crowded for me and we left after about two hours. We arrived on day two at opening , it was much better until about 1:00 PM. We left and went to lunch, came back and attend the film. We plan to go back for Christmas next year, but we will arrange our schedule to be there the week before Christmas.
the Sugar Bowl and the professional football team being in town for the weekend plus the big New Years Eve celebration never occurred to us.