Paw Paws Place

On Saturday we went to a wedding at the Frankleton Louisiana Country Club. Pat and Bob's niece Stacy was getting married. It was an outside wedding on a lake and it was beautiful. Also shown in the pictures are Jaime, Stacey's sister and her beautiful mom Rhonda. The picture of the two guys dancing is part of the wedding party, the one on the left is Stacey's brother Justin. The young couple holding the baby is Pat's sister Annette and her husband Luther. The baby is not hers but she does have 4 children and umpteen gran kids. I am glad her an Pat did not have a baby matching contest. It they had I am sure that I would not be writing this Blog today..ha! After the wedding we went by and looked at the building that use to have a pool hall in it. Bob had lived there prior to moving to Baton Rouge, the pool room was his business at that time. Well we are winding down with part 3 of our vacation. I will share pictures of Pats home town, at least what is left in downtown Ke...

On Friday we began our trip to see the Morganza Spillway (Levee). We got off to a shaky start on Interstate 12, there was some kind of wreck or something a mile down the road. After crawling along for an hour we decided to get off and go back and get on the back roads. Traveling along the back roads in Louisiana is an education in it self, especially with Bob & Harold being the tour guides. Oh yea I forgot, we were traveling with Bob & Martha Ann and Harold & Dixie Armstrong. Harold is my adopted brother-in -law and my "political adviser"! We have known them for years and just love being with them, never a dull moment. Our first stop was for dinner, as the picture shows you, it was a quaint place (that's putting it lightly) and the food was just great (when we finally got it). The name as you can see was "Not Your Mama's Cafe". After our food arrived Harold said the blessing for the food, I must say it put us in the right frame of mind. (can...

Pat and I flew to New Orleans Louisiana on May 19th to visit Pats family. We were picked up at the airport by Pats brother Bob and his sweet wife Martha Ann. Web went to a restaurant named Frostops, well known for it Frosty Root beer and great hamburgers. We left there and headed to our first look at the flooding of the Mississippi River. We went to a levee called the Bonnet Carre Spillway. The information below the pictures will tell you all about the levee. You can see a post that shows 22ft of water, that is normally dry ground. The day that we were there the levee was flowing 316,000 cubic ft of water per second. The pictures will speak for them selves and the information will explain the reason it is open. The picture with Pat and Martha Ann is normally dry out to the Island. The picture on the right is actually the mighty Mississippi river. The Bonnet Carré Spillway consists of two basic components: a control structure along the east bank of the Mississippi River and a floodway...