September 29, 2004
Louisiana, I love thee.
This Saturday, we're headed to the Audubon Zoo for some designated family fun time. We've been planning it all summer, just waiting for the weather to cool off a bit. It just so happens that our plans coincide with Swampfest. Oh la!!!
Listen to this.
"Visit three music stages with the finest in Cajun and Zydeco sounds from Louisiana artists. Bring home a piece of Louisiana's heritage with unique Cajun creations. Genuine Louisiana arts and crafts will be sold throughout the Zoo with a showcase of watercolor lifestyle renderings, fish print rubbings, woven cypress baskets, and more. Have you ever had cracklin, couchon de lait, fried green tomatoes, crawfish beignets, or fried alligator? These and many other fest-foods are available both weekends from some of the best restaurants and caterers in Southern Louisiana. Crawfish pasta, crawfish bread, crab cakes with crawfish sauce, fried green tomatoes, crawfish beignets, smoke turkey legs, fried alligator, Jamaican chicken, couchon du lait, shrimp po-boys, pralines, and much more.
AND Fest-goers can experience traditional Cajun music, learn how to create generation-old wood carvings, or hear about the origins of Cajun culture.
Feedings throughout the Louisiana Swamp Exhibit include alligators, nutria, water snakes, possums, coons or just about any other Swamp inhabitant there is!"
How could this NOT be fun? (well, except for the cracklin'. Ew.)
Louisiana has to be the coolest state, though. Seriously, it's too much fun down here!
Where else in the country can you buy beer at a zoo? Awesome.
That food sounds FAN-TAS-TIC! Eat plenty of anything with crawfish in it for me.
Posted by: Joey Wolfe at September 29, 2004 12:52 PMI'm jealous. That sounds like some good ol' Cajun fun. And the zoo down there is really nice (or at least, I remember it being that way)
I know. The McDonald's at the zoo is the only McD's in the country that sells beer. Of course, it's New Orleans. WOohoo!
Posted by: Jeannette at September 29, 2004 05:48 PMI loved the endless festivals all those years I was living in and around New Orleans, too... probably my favorite was the Crawfish Festival we went to in a little out of the way swamp town whose name I can't remember... but it was held in the cemetery... sooooooooo cool... now tell me... where else can you buy beer in a cemetery...
Posted by: Aunt Vickie at September 30, 2004 04:17 PM