A couple weeks ago The Tregaskes family and Grandma Mikey came to visit. The boys of course loved every second of having their cousins around!! So we spent a lot of time driving around showing the wonderful things about Louisiana and why we love it here.
Yes it makes me a little nervous to know that we had 11 people in a 8 passenger car but we somehow survived and still liked eachother after.
One of the "hot" spots to visit is Avery Island - home of the Tabasco hot sauce factory. Here you learn all about the history of how Tabasco came to be. "Tabasco" means "Land of the hot and humid" and the kids all agreed (thanks to Nathan bringing to our attention) that Louisiana should really be called Tabasco.
The cousins in front of one of the larger Oak trees on campus
We also went on a swamp tour: Ryan and our tour guide
Just a few things seen on the tour.........
What's a swamp tour without alligators? And what could be more fun than teasing the alligators? Our guide had some fish with him and would throw a fishing line with the fish out to attract the alligators closer to the boat -- but not too close. Of course if I had better reflexes with the camera these would have turned out better but you can see the alligator jumping at the fish (sort of?)
Our next stop was Red Stick or better known as Baton Rouge. We drove over to Baton Rouge so our visitors could go on the longest bridge and say they crossed the Mississippi. If I didn't know how to spell Mississippi before the trip I do now. Listening to 6 children repeat over and over M-i-s-s-i-s-s-i-p-p-i over and over was the highlight of the drive.
Visiting the Baton Rouge Temple
We are so glad that Amy and the kids and Mikey came to visit. Hopefully more people will feel the urge to make a road trip too!!!
5 comments:
We are officially making our reservation at the Nelson hotel for Mardi Gras 2010. Seeing all those photos makes me want to come now. We miss the Nelsons!!!!!!
You know I'll be back--especially now that you can't make the easy drive up for a visit. Looks like I will have to make the sacrifice and come to visit you and those adorable boys!
You know we'll be there, perhaps more than you'd like. : ) Reading your post reminded me of past LA trips... I can't wait to come back and see you all again.
you guys r 2 far away for me to skip takeing medicne!! Too bad they didn't know how 2 say mississippi backwards, ippississim. ha!!!
Janet:P
Miss u!
looks like you had a lot of fun!! So, when is Mardi Gras in 2010?? Not the first week of March?? We will see you then!!
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