I Love Louisiana!

The azaleas are blooming! This is the yard next to mom and dad's. Here's the same azaleas with a house in the background. Notice more blue tarps. And, here's the view from our hotel room. This is overlooking Lake Charles. The I-210 bridge is in the background. Pretty, huh? Today I had lunch with an old friend who is also a quilter. I thought we had met about 20 years ago when she had a shop in town but she reminded me that she had worked in a bank in a building where I worked and that was more like 25 years ago. She now works for my uncle so Vince and I picked up hamburgers from our favorite hamburger joint (where we've already eaten once since being here), met them at their office and ate there. For dinner, we went to the new L'Auberge Casino. They have several restaurants there but at the Le Beaucoup Buffet, they had crawfish! They also had prime rib, fresh fish they would grill to order, shrimp creole, gumbo and more fantastic foods than I can remember. I am so stuffed! This is a tug boat that was passing as we were eating. Such pretty sights!