Holiday Inn Baton Rouge-South,La

... people and they all have hearts of Gold "Gary if your reading this thank you so much, you are so generous and you really are a top man!".

If you are reading this thank you for taking an interest in my trip and thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedules to make sure i'm ok :). I have missed my friends and family a lot and just to let you know I will be flying back to London Heathrow this Sunday.

Lot's of love, see you very soon.

Adam xxxx

Hey loyal blog readers,

This is an entry which doesn't need much writing you'll be glad to know. It's mainly about the pictures! It was a lovely day in Louisiana so we decided to take the kids to the zoo ( we really wanted to go, but taking the kids was our cover ).

All in all it was a great day out! It was hot and the kids (myself and Gary) loved it! Enjoy the pictures. Another entry will follow this one :)

Adam (misses you all lot's) x

... down the road from Baton Rouge. Not a scenic as my previous night but the ground is softer and Carol at the front desk promised no raccoons but there might be a drunk or two that wanders through from the bar down the road. Later that day, I headed to Baton Rouge for the first day of competition at the Pennington Balloon Championships. Lots to do for the kids but unfortunately, a storm north of the ...

... the meal. So we had some food and a couple of drinks and headed home. Then about 2:00am we headed to Chips house armed with bag fuls of shreaded paper, tooth paste, chocolate syrup and other horrible things. Chips wife Jennifer had text us to say he was asleep and she was supposed to open his truck for us but we got there and it was locked. So we start decorating the outside of his truck with our ingredients.

Denham Springs, Louisiana, United States adamc26

... with 2 stars. The trophy stays in the states which is annoying because they were so smug about it! After it all had sunk in Chip and Gary offered me and Aled a rematch for the Presidents cup the week after, we accepted the challenge.

Saturday we had been invited to New Orleans to stay in a Hotel room that had been bought by Chip which was good I had a feeling it would be a good night. Denham Springs week of camp had been amazing we had dressed the coach ...

Wednesday we made our way back to Denham Springs!

What should of been a 7.5 hour drive was a 8.5 drive because Mapquest, who I hate sent us the country route through New, we werent' best pleased. We chilled on the Wednesday evening and then the next day i went to "Blue Bayou" which is a water park/Theme park. It was a great day even though it reached 104 degrees. I went with a summer camp! We hit all the water rides ...

I left this morning via Greyhound bus and have arrived in Baton Rouge. It gives me a good chance to do some urgent washing which I have just finished now. It's very hot again today and with nothing major around town and some fast food within walking distance, I will just stay around here.
On the bus here I saw my first billboard! Maybe only Dad ...

... Brunet's...the food was spicy, but the service...well, when I asked our waiter what his favorite thing to eat was he replied, "The fettucini." I'm pretty sure that when a group as touristy looking as we were sits down in a restaurant supposedly well-known for its Cajun fare we do not want our waiter to suggest Italian!

The food was good...very spicy and the blackened shrimp was excellent!

... we arrived outside their house roughly in the time frame. Both Bob and Kathy came out to greet us and inside we trekked. It was established that no one had eaten lunch and we piled in their van to head to a local restaurant. Without a local taking us to this restaurant, we would not have driven off the road to head in, yet we finished a nice meal we all enjoyed. Also we are indebted to Bob and Kathy, they insisted on paying for the meal, Great ...

... Proud New Orleanian and travel fanatic. As you can see, a prime catch in anyone's book. I'm pretty much a rambling rover and not one to settle down easily. But enough aboot me... (Hard at work. Like I said, she's the brains, I'm the traveler) Anyway, a little while back and after much ducking and dodging on my part I asked Rachel to marry me. There was one (small) catch: I get to ...