From the Battle of New Orleans to World War II within 24 hours! We are in need of a Happy Day tomorrow! We have toured the Chalmette Battlefield from the war of 1812 called the Battle of New Orleans (1815). This was America's victory of "the last battle of the last war ever fought between England and the United States" and was a major stepping stone in General Andrew Jackson's journey to the White House. We walked the Chalmette National Cemetery of 1864, esta...

Bienvenue à la Louisiane où nous parlons français! (Welcome to Louisiana where we speak French). At least a dialect of the French language which has been groomed over generations of Parisian, Canadienne, Haitian, Spanish, and Afro American French speakers. Their dialect has become known as Créole - French with a Caribbean twist! So where does Cajun come from? The Cajun People are the French Canadian settlers who were ruthlessly deported from Acadia in 1755 b...

The kids bought a kite today and spent the afternoon on the beach with it. We also went on the local ferry as foot passengers, and get this, we had no idea where it was going. Of course we didn't realize that point until we were way out in the bay. The place where we thought the ferry was going, we went right by... We did however see our very first dolphins as we went to some-other port and back!

112 years ago, Galveston was a beautiful and lucrative town basking in affluence and commerce. An Island in the Gulf of Mexico, Galveston's elevation was as level as the sea surrounding it. On the morning of September 8, 1900,an ominous change of weather arose. Even as the waters began to churn, the residents were drawn toward the sea by their curiosity and unfortunate ignorance. A hurricane like none other recorded before it, threw itself over the island and...

El Campo, Texas! You'll never guess... we found more relatives! We stopped for coffee on Thursday at Tim's Aunt Johanna and Uncle Earl's - and we are still here. It's been the longest coffee break I've ever known. Aunt Johanna is one of Grandma Annabel's 10 younger siblings (the sixth daughter of eight girls and three boys). She is strikingly similar to Grandma Annabel, and so she has become Aunt-Grandma to us. We are camped at Stacy and Jeanette's catfish ...