Happy New Year!!!!
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| Lake Charles |
Happy New Year 2012 to all. We have had some wonderful times this past year some happy and some sad. We are hoping this year will be a great year .
We are still in Louisiana where we spent the Holidays. Here in our park the owner had a potluck Christmas dinner a week before Christmas. He furnished a great deal of the meal with Turkey, Ham, brisket, dressing, yams. It was a great meal.
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| Glen and Charlie Christmas Dinner |
We had a surprise when a fellow bus driver Glen and Helen from Bend emailed Charlie telling him they were coming to our park for a week at Christmas. We got together and did a lot of visiting. They had us over for Christmas dinner Glen cooked Turkey breast on the BBQ it was wonderful.
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| Glen and Helen Lake Charles |
The kids sent us all kinds of nice things for Christmas.
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| electric fry pan |
We missed being with the kids for Christmas it is never the same when you are away at the holidays. Charlie tricked me into opening my presents Christmas Eve and he saved his for Christmas morning.
Christmas morning he brought his present to the bed and started opening them it was quite a sight.We got more presents after Christmas.
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| Creole trail Calcasieu Lake |
We stopped and watched some people crabbing with a small rope with a piece of turkey on the end. They throw it in the water and wait until the rope moves then you have to pull the rope in very slow and the other person nets the crab it is blue crab. You can catch any size or sex here.
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Ladies crabbing for blue crabs
A few days later we took Glen and Helen on the Creole Nature Trail. It is a trail that winds through the bayous, marshlands and shores along the gulf of Mexico. It was a beautiful drive. We went to the Southwest Louisiana Natural Wildlife Refuge Complex Visitor center too. |
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| National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center |
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| wildlife refuge |
We didn’t see any alligators the weather had been cool and they weren’t around. We stopped at a small restaurant on our way back where we had some Louisiana cuisine. Charlie and Glen had chicken and sausage gumbo. Helen had gar sandwich I had a pulled pork poboy. It was very good.
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| Gulf channel |
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Then the New Year was upon us. The people in the south love there fireworks and they set a lot off. Although not as much as they did in Alamo Texas.
We had a New Year feed at the club house Jambalaya, cabbage and black eyed peas and the fixing. The traditional meal for new year. It was pretty good. The Mardi Gras is a big thing in Louisiana so we have plans to see some. More to come.
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| Jambalaya |
Ginny
It was dark in the center some of the pictures didn’t turn out as well as I would have liked. I forgot to bring my movie camera which would have been nice. Some of the costumes were over 10 feet tall setting on the shoulders on men and women and the average weight is 50 lbs. 
