Tag: Louisiana

  • Louisiana: Mardi Gras

    “Mardi Gras” is a great book about the holiday and how it is celebrate particularly in New Orleans.   It approaches this holiday at a kid level and gives a fair amount of background.  I loved how well it covered how New Orleans celebrates it and I learned all sorts of things.  It made me…

  • And one last Louisiana post

      We woke up this morning to a horrible rainstorm and hurriedly got ready to go amidst lots of tornado warnings and the kids asking “Will a tornado come and hit us?”   YES!  And it’s going to fly us far away!  Okay, I didn’t really say that, but there was times I was tempted…

  • Our progress so far

    Well, it was a bit of a rocky start yesterday as we had lots of forgotten items and false starts, but we finally got off and driving. And then after about 15 minutes Superman started the dreaded question, “Are we to the hotel yet?” And then it morphed into his own personal quest to point out…