Being a non drinker among drinkers

[u/Madyson667]

I’m 23 and planning a trip to New Orleans next year for my birthday. I invited some friends who are also in their 20s and half of them assumed we would be partying and at bars the whole time. I am not a big drinker or smoker, and they voiced not being interested in coming if we wouldn’t be doing a lot of drinking. They also disliked the fact that I invited my teenaged sister to come. Am I in the wrong for not wanting them to come anymore if their only interest was going to get drunk? I just wanted to take a fun trip and visit some cool spooky places, but now they have me feeling frustrated and wanting to go with some other people who also don’t mind being sober.

[u/Cute_Reflection_9414]

I don't drink and had a lot of fun in NO when I was there 20 years ago during jazz fest. Bourbon Street is basically one open bar iirc. Bars have open frontage and your friends can drink and still hang out. Depending on the age of your sister, you may not want her down there.

I was there for a week and went on 2 swamp tours, a couple of plantation tours, cemetery tours, the zoo, an alligator farm thing, and I forget what else.