Louisiana Vacation
Last weekend, Abby and I took Myra Grace down to Abby's hometown of Ponchatoula, Louisiana. We met up with several of Abby's friends to introduce them to MG. Check out the pictures.
Louisiana is rich in its culinary traditions, typically seafood distributed in a multitude of ways, mainly fried. We ate like kings on our visit. As a whole, our trip was relaxing and entertaining. We saw just about everyone we wanted to see and ate about everything we wanted to eat. Except for our return flight from Atlanta to Raleigh getting canceled, leaving us in Atlanta's airport for an extra 7 hours, the trip was a success.
Things I learned from our trip
-The music in the Atlanta airport is horrible. I would categorize it as "adult non-contemporary". The sappiest, crappiest love songs from the 70's. It would have been tolerable if the same music was instrumental.
-Locals come out of the woodwork for the Ponchatoula Strawberry Festival, no matter the weather.
-Myra Grace does not care where she is, as long as she's entertained, fed and wearing clean apparel. (Not necessarily in that order)
-Seat assignments on a new flight to cover a canceled flight do not get assigned "first come, first serve". (Still don't know how they decide who gets seats)
-You can never have enough surrogate grandparents
-It is not uncommon for complete strangers to pick up the check for traveling military personnel eating at a restaurant.
-The entire country was extremely windy on April 15th.
-Even the simplest of actions done by toddlers in tandem is extremely cute.