Best Western of Opelousas

... turned away. They weren't going to be open on Thanksgiving (I guess all the homeless go home for Turkey Day). We even offered to work before or after doing anything they needed done (I even said cleaning the toilets) and no go but they did have a bed for us since we were homeless. It's pretty bad when even the homeless don't want your help and you can't give your services away. We left there ...

... and it was amazing to see the elaborate costumes, jewelry and masks. Outside we watched a few street musicians, but as the girls were pretty tired from our busy days, we decided to hit the road.

This afternoon they spent hours relaxing in the pool in our Cajun/Creole country hotel. Tonight we're off to an authentic Cajun restaurant. We'll see how adventurous they are!

... cypress trees and an alligator in the Achafalaya Basin.
Talk to the kids by cell phone.
Drove to Breaux Bridge La and had dinner at Mulate's.It is a famous Cajun restaurant.At the entrance it has a lot of world famous celebrities who visited the place,
Had combination the fried seafood platter-cat fish,frog,shrimps,oyster.
Heard the band sing Jambalaya.
Drove back to the hotel in Lafayette.

... restaurant with a dance floor. Lots of Cajun dancing and music.It has bench seats for the dancers in the dance floor so they do not have to go to their tables.
The band has an accordion,and fiddle.
Ate boiled crawfish,crawfish etouffee and banana pudding,.Food is good.

... of mud, built into a circle of anywhere from 2 to 5 inches in diameter, hollow in the center, and stacked from 1 to 6 inches high. The center hole can be from ¾ to 2 inches in diameter. That is a crawdad hole, and they are all over the south where the water table is less than 3 feet from the ground level. The other thing I saw, much less pleasant, were fire ant mounds -- 4 to 12 inches high, from 6 inches to 2 feet in diameter, and usually around some sort of post in the ...

... et, une fois la-bas, on m'aidera à trouver une solution car l'aurais manqué la correspondance. C'est donc ce que je fais. On me met en attente (stand-by), le premier sur la liste pour un vol qui part dans 1 heure. J'embarque et le vol se passe bien. Arrivé à Londres, comme je m'y attendais, pas de bagages: ils sont dans l'avion suivant. Il me faut donc attendre. Je vais donc chercher ma ...

... rendevous with Jerie on this trip. The first thing to notice is that everybody knows everybody else, literally. There wasn't a minute that people weren't embracing and saying how good it was to see each other, when in reality it probably hadn't been but a few days since they last met. It was really important for these people to be around each other though. To see them dancing to the good music around the pavilion ...

... peu pour être au départ à l'heure. $20 pour 2 heures est un prix très raisonnable comparé aux prix pratiqués du coté de Henderson. Nous voyons d'abord beaucoup d'oiseaux puis d'alligaor. Je suis content d'avoir pensé à mettre de la creme solaire. En effet le soleil tape fort et je rougis bien! Sur le chemin du retour, je fais un petit detour par Breaux Bridge pour acheter du boudin chez ...

Je me lève à 8h45 juste pour découvrir que l'hostel pourtant complet hier soir est déjà vide! Le temps maussade ne me donne pas envie de sortir. De la pluie est prévue pour aujourd'hui. J'en profite pour me reposer, faire la lessive (machine) et préparer le reste de ma visite. Après une petite sieste je me rends au Whisky River landing, à Henderson. Un avis de gros orage vient juste d'etre émis pour la région. J'arrive juste entre 2 averses, en avance ...

... England for mastery of North America. The Acadians declared neutrality, but in 1755 the English began rounding up the Acadians and putting them on ships bound for the American colonies. Refused entry into the colonies, the Acadians began a 30-year odyssey of wandering as "boat people", settling in France, Quebec, the French West Indies, French Guiana, and the Falkland Islands. In 1785, Spain needed settlers to bolster its claim to ...