Mud - Boggin in Lousianna

Last time Leah wrote the blog so now it’s my turn. We headed north of Lafayette to Natchez, Missippii on April 13^th to visit the Frogmore Plantation, which is very close to the mighty Mississippi River. It had rained the last few nights and it was wet and really muddy. The parking lot at the Plantation was small so dad didn’t want to park there. Instead Dad decided to park at a large grassy area down the road. Splatt! Right into the a huge mud blob. AHHHHHHH! Yelled dad jumping outside. After about 10 minutes of Dad going back and forth, and back and forth inside out, trying to get out of the sticky, gooey, Lousianna mud, finally a nice afro-american came out of his GMC truck and got us out of the mud. Thank goodness!!

Dad thinks of the Kia SUV swamp commercial now - he found it here

We ended up missing the last tour at the Plantation after all that excitement and toured around Natchez instead . There are lots of really nice old houses in Natchez that we looked at and went went to a spot in downtown Natchaz where they used to sell slaves.

Then the next day we all got up bright and early and went to the Plantation. The Lady gave us a tour and showed us the slave quarters, barn, church, and saw how they harvested cotton long ago and today. This was really interesting to see a plantation first hand especially since the Grade 5 class read the book The Underground Railroad.
We then went to the New Orleans area and stayed a state park on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. To get to New Orleans you have to cross a huge bridge which goes on for 25 miles across the lake! New Orleans was very pretty in the French Quarter. In some ways it reminded me of pictures of Paris. We went to this place called Café Du Monde and tasted some very yummy baignets - a square dounut thing with lots of icing sugar (thanks for the tip Grandpa Ralph). And for lunch we went to this old fashion burger dinner were 3 people worked. There was an Afro-American Lady who kept dancing as she was cooking and all the employees had a dancing competetion. It was so FUNNY!
Well all your guesses on what to do if an alligator is chasing you on land are all good, but what we were told was if an alligator is ever chasing you on land you should run in zig-zags. Because you see when Alligators are on land they can run extremely fast in a precise straight line – they only see straight ahead… So that’s what you should do if an Alligator is chasing you on land.

Today’s nailbitting, headpuzzling trivia question is……………………… when we were staying over night at the State Park, and when dad got stopped by a State Park ranger, because he was over the speed limit of 15 miles per hour, how fast was he really going?

Until next time.

Emma