Bedroom


Mike's daughter was there including some friends. Mike and Marion were in the middle of getting the ingredients for a mud bug boil. There are lots of places where you can get crawfish in Louisianna and people love them down there. You boil them up with potatoes, garlic, mushrooms, corn on the cob and Louisianna seasonings. That night we all went to the basement and in a big pot Mike and the others proceeded in boiling the water and cooking the potatoes and the other ingredients and then the crawfish were thrown in last. When this was all cooked it was drained and then put on newspapers on a table. We all ate this for awhile and then sat around and talked into the wee hours of the morning and then went to bed. I met many of the Cajun people who live in the area. It made for quite a memorable time. I will never forget it.

Picture in Bedroom


The next morning I got up around 9am and when I went downstairs I was offered eggs and grits. I ate this, then after that I had a desire to go for a walk out to the highway. It seemed like at least a mile. I walked out and and back. Sometimes it take awhile for Mike to get up in the morning. This was one of those mornings. I was given some long underwear cause they said it was going to get cold out on the bayou. I got these on and we got everything in the truck and then we left. It was quite a drive to get to Sorrel Bayou. We passed some nice manor houses along the way. We also passed a graveyard where people are buried in cripts above ground. After awhile we met up with a friend of Mike's and Marion's named Saint who was going to take us by boats to a cabin on the bayou.

Flowers Neith the Window Sill


We got down to the dock and Saint pulled up with the motor boat. We all got life jackets on and got in the boat and then took off up the bayou, first at a fairly slow speed, and then kind of fast. We got to the cabin and sat around and listened to Saint tell stories. Saint's two sons were there. They went outside and started shooting their guns which made everyone jump everytime they did. We ate some sandwiches that Marion brought and one of Saint's sons made some hamburgers which I ate part of one.