It has been a wonderful month. We have met a lot of very nice people and have enjoyed happy hours, lots of food and restaurants and parades and friendship.
It is like leaving family. And tomorrow morning it will be a lot of sad good byes. Nine of us are moving on in different directions, and some of us are going the same way.
Four couples of us are heading to Bayou Signette state park in Westwego, which is Linda's and my favorite Louisiana state park. We will be spending 3 nights there before moving on to Sam Raybourn corp of engineer park in Texas for two weeks. Jim and Bobbie are going with us. Rich and Terri are heading to Texas tomorrow and on to Colorado to open the campground that they manage for the summer. Jim and Bobbie will move on to Colorado after Texas and we will start heading back north to Woodstock, Illinois. Plan is to arrive there around the first of May. We will be “home” for about 6-7 weeks before heading to Colorado to join Jim, Bobbie, Terri and Rich for the summer.
Today is Fat Tuesday http://en.wikopedia.org/wiki/mardi-gras and all of the cities have parades. We decided that we have done enough parades over the years and stayed home, only going out to lunch at a local restaurant/grocery store in Kaplan. They are known for their local food and we had a wonderful lunch.
I think shrimp po boys were the choice of most, but I had a Philly cheesesteak po boy.
After returning to Betty’s we started to put stuff away in the rv’s for the trip tomorrow and happy hour started really early. Plan was to have a chili cook-off for supper and, as usual, the food was great. As well as the friendship and good times. it is going to be a sad day tomorrow saying good buy (oops, I think I already said that)
The mason jar that you see is apple pie (do you remember that from Campbellsville?). We had talked about experimenting with the apple pie using vodka instead of shine and Jim and Bobbi worked out the recipe. It was just as good. And they shared almost half a gallon of it with the group.
These are some of the bottles that were collected during our stay. Betty paints some of them and is decorating a stump in her yard. She still has about 200 bottles left to do.!!!!! O.K. so there were 34 of us here, give me a break!!!!
Bye Betty, we have enjoyed your hospitality and your love and getting caught in your “web”.
Love to all of you also
Jim and Linda
Great report and we just love the photos !
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