Dancing and driving

We walked around part of Lafayette and went to Edies Restaurant to meet Simon for lunch. I had crawfish pie and Evelyn had catfish. Roland wanted to go here instead of Dwyer's Cafe because he has the same esophogal sphincter problem that I have but can't control it as I can. He thinks it is something at Dwyer's. We had a nice visit and then Evelyn and I went off to the library to check e-mail, etc. We then went to The Best Stop meat market for the purchase of boudin and crawfish tails. We took six frozen links and one package of tails because of limited freezer space. We went back to Cankton to Earlys Cajun market and found the tails $.50 cheaper so we bought two more pounds and some boudin for me to eat along the way. We took the items home and rested for the big night at Randol's. We arrived just in time for the bad to begin and shared a crawfish platter of friend crawfish, etouffee, dirty rice, French fries and hush puppies. Evelyn thinks the etouffee was the best we have had, but I still go for the buffet at Big Daddy's in Iowa. Regardless, it is all superb stuff. We danced some, but there were four tour busses--one full of French people and one full of students from Shreveport. When the kids got on to the floor, there was little chance for dancing, although the true Cajuns tried anyway. The dancing was not much fun for us.
Evelyn decided she did not want to stay for the Wednesday evening opening of the festival in Lafayette, so we got up Wednesday, walked packed up, dumped the tanks and left Lafayette about 11:30. We stopped at the first rest area and ate more of the food I had bought from the Valley. We drove further, stopped again and napped. Driving wears us out, and we don't like to risk accidents more than usual. We drove on to El Dorado, LA (pronounced with a long "a") and stopped early at a Wal-Mart. We went to bed by 10:00 and rested soundly.
Thursday we walked the large Wal-Mart lot several times and left around ten on our final leg to Stonecroft. We stopped for more Popeye's chicken (the last) along the road and then drove straight on to Hollister. I did stop for fuel twice, paying $1.999 per gallon each time. How odd to be excited about gasoline for $2.00! We arrived and parked our unit where assigned and explored the area. Evelyn went swimming in the pool while I did computer work including this blog. She also talked with Emily who celebrated her 14th wedding anniversary yesterday. They are leaving for Mammoth next Wednesday for skiing. We wish them snow.