Day with Jerry and Mila

Our last day in New Orleans was a wonderful one. Ron's cousin Gerald Fiset and his wife Mila live very close to New Orleans and we were able to get in a visit.

Jerry and Mila treated us like royalty, they tooks us out for a tour, first over the big bridge or

causeway shown below to Mandeville on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain.

Jerry says it is one of the longest bridges in the world, 24 miles across.

Here is Jerry, Mila and Ron on the bridge.

Mandeville was very quaint with old on one side of the water and new and rich on the other.

This is a cafe offering up boiled crawfish.

And here are some of the house just across the little piece of water.

Here is still some evidence of Katrina

Now back to Jerry and Milas where she has prepared a feast.

We started off with crab and crawfish, washed down with beer. She also had chicken, pork, rice, shrimp, salad, a couple of Phillipine recipes that I can not pronounce or spell and then we finished with coffee and sweet rice. Needless to say we could not eat it all but let me tell you what a treat. Thank you Jerry and Mila.

After dinner a few more drinks and courage gained and we got into some Kareoke, it was so much fun, we laughed and laughed. We forgot about the time and did not leave until after midnight to go back into New Orleans to get to the coach.

So whether we liked it or not we had to be up early to make our move up to Memphis. In Louisiana you drive for miles and miles on these elevated roads over the swamps, so amazing.

It did not take long heading north to leave all the wonderful green trees and flowers to find the dead winter foliage. We did find some bright purple blossoms on the side of the road. The weather was very nice just into the 80's.

We reached our campground just south of Memphis late afternoon and decided the coach had to have a bath so it was 7pm before we got supper and very early to bed.