The Blank Chronicles: Baton Rouge Trip

We had a great weekend in Baton Rouge. Chuck's brother, Drew, graduated from LSU on Friday. Chuck, the kids and I flew up on Thursday (we took the kids out of school for two days). While we were in Baton Rouge, we went to Drew's graduation, went to the LSU bookstore, viewed the LSU mascot... Mike (a tiger), went to Drew's graduation, went on a swamp tour, and geocached. We had no fun getting home...more on that later!

Drew's graduation was nice....a typical long graduation but nice. It's good to see him finish college. We sat by Edie and Chris (Chuck's mom and sister) and Chris's 9 month old baby, Riley. Riley is a cutie!

Holly and Drew had a party that evening. A bunch of their friends were there as well as Holly's family, Edie, Chris and all of us. They had the biggest BBQ and craw fish boil I've seen (I don't see many craw fish boils but it was big!). Toward dark we took the kids geocaching by Holly and Drew's house and all of us were eaten alive by GIANT SWAMP MOSQUITOES....crap they grow them big there!

LSU's mascot died last year and they have a new tiger this year along with a beautiful new habitat. I think Holly told me it was about 1 Million bucks....I may be dreaming that but I think that is what she told me.

On Saturday, we all met up with everyone and went on a Swamp Tour. It was very cool. We learned that Henry Ford used the moss from that swamp to stuff his upholstered seats. Henry Ford also used the cedar that the moss was shipped in for the running boards on his cars. It was interesting. The swamp was very high so we didn't get to see any alligators even though they live there. The crazy cajun guide was looking for them.

We spent a lot of time on Saturday geocaching around the city. We found some caches that were smaller than a fingernail. It was a lot of fun. We were able to fit in seeing the new Narnia movie as well!

On Sunday, our flights started out well. We made it to DFW without problem but from DFW things started not going well. We got on a plane to come back to Tucson only to learn they had a problem. We sat on the plane for a hour or so then they made us get off. They had us wait 45 more minutes to see if they could find another plane and of course they couldn't. They just cancelled the flight. We were able to get back to Tucson via Delta only because Chuck is a gold member because of all the traveling he has done. We were suppose to get home at 1:00 in the afternoon instead we got home at 10:30 at night. American had our luggage and we managed to be part of a handful of people that made it back to Tucson on Wednesday....over 200 more pieces of luggage from our canceled flight were waiting to be claimed.

Having a canceled flight is not a big deal except it was my turn to host Bunko on Monday night. We came home to find out that my best friend, Diane, had cleaned my house and got it ready for me....Holy Cow....that was an incredible thing....Not only did she clean my house, they had Scruffy over the weekend and let Scruffy sleep on the bed at their house. What a spoiled puppy we have!

Here's some pictures!

We're at a lake geocaching by the capital.