So I have almost 300 pages to read, and hopefully it'll be all done today (or mostly). I was in Baton Rouge Friday and Saturday so I got very little reading done. Instead, I went to a party for one of my friends getting married and I introduced the boyfriend to them, to my godfather and to Southern Louisiana - food, culture, etc. I took him to my favorite places to eat - The Chimes East, Coffee Call and Cane's and . We spent an hour walking on LSU's campus (what the heck happened to the Union??), where he got a tour of my life in the late 90s, we went to a bunch of tiny meat markets in Lafayette and Scott for the best meats (he researched and we used my knowledge), and he got the "You take care of her and let me show you my gun collection" talk by my godfather (who heartily approved of him), who has assumed the fatherly obligations in so many things since he died a while ago.
All in all, it was a great trip. It's so much fun to introduce Yankees to southern Louisiana. He's taking me to Yankeeland in November (maybe I'll see snow!), and sometimes we're going to go to Annapolis so he can show me the naval academy, his alma mater.
I wish we had more time, but with school we didn't. Now we're planning two upcoming road trips: another one to Louisiana, where we'll go to New Orleans and then spend some time in New Iberia on the way back, going to plantations and finding good food. Then we're going to do a west Texas trip, going to barbeque places and checking out Texas landmarks.
Time to read. Cheers!
