We arrived in New Orleans on Thursday. We picked up Todd, Jess and her mom and dad at the airport on Thursday morning. What a weekend we have had. On Thursday afternoon we toured the French Quarter. On Friday we went on a city/Katrina tour that was very interesting and informative. We saw the areas most affected by Katrina, Fats Domino's home, the homes the Brad & Angelina are building to replace homes that were destroyed.The devastation after 4.5 years is amazing to see, lots of homes and business still boarded up. We found some actual cajun music in the French quarter on Sunday afternoon and B and I spent a couple hours there enjoying it. On Saturday we went on a tour of Oak Alley Plantation and drove past Laura...it is amazing how people lived back in the mid 1800s. On the way back there we saw cars parked along the road with men fishing in the swamp. We stopped to see what they were fishing. It was crawfish, the opening of the season. The young guy we talked to was more than happy to tell us about crawfishing and show us his catch. Monday was a quiet day...a little shopping before we dropped our visitors off at the airport at 3:30. Today we are heading out to play a Pete Dye designed course called Belle Terre- $30.00. Beautiful day today, hot and sunny!!!
Tomorow we are off to Bay St Louis, Mississippi and will be staying in the RV park at the Hollywood Casino and playing golf Thursday on an Arnold Palmer design course- $33.00.