Labor Day #2

Day 7, Sunday, Sept. 1st, hot, humid but Sunny🌞.i went for a 2 mile walk on the levee, across the street from our KOA..in Harahan , La., .while Paul fixed bacon ( already cooked... gift from his congregation!) and eggs and toast.  Saw several huge ships along the Mississippi, and big airplanes coming in for a landing right above me! First  real walk in 7 days! 

We left at 10:00a.m. For 10:30  church and barely made it!  But OH MY!  What a wonderful service at my former congregation, St.Paul Lutheran , on the edge of the French Quarter.  ( several blocks of homeless people waking up on the median  ( neutral ground, as they call it in N.O., ) on Franklin Ave. before crossing St. Claude into the Marigny area by the church).   Had NEVER seen that before!  

TERRIFIC  sermon, and music!  ( amazing sounding pipe organ that was played like I haven’t heard in a LONG time! ) And the singing, as always at this church, almost burst the beautiful stained glass windows... that are quickly covered with wooden shutters after each  service.).  An Amazing, Historical, Beautiful church...in same location after more than 175 years! 🙏. It was absolutely wonderful to see and hug and talk to old friends.  It was very emotional for me ...and Paul was very understanding and patient. 🙏🥰

Sunday after church, we headed  out of N.O. On highway 90 into the swamps and rural towns of Louisiana, toward our goal of Houston on Tue., for tour of NASA!  

Huge dark thunderclouds preceded the spotty heavy  rain we encountered as we motored  ( bumped and bounced) along  very poorly kept roads!  Many, many fields of sugar cane  were seen and thanks to google we now know all about this plant!  ( like the “mystery plant”, PEANUTS, in Georgia fields !). There was even a school called Cane View Elementary!😉☺️

O.K... fast foreword past the fields, silos ( which we can’t figure out what they are for), many Family Dollar and Dollar General stores, ginormous farm equipment we passed on narrow 2-lane roads, Klondike, La., and finally turn onto  a country road called “greenhouse” road ( had a green house on it) 😂 then turn into Meyers Landing on huge Lake Arthur.  Really just a large piece of land/fields with giant Oak trees and an old country store , docks  and boat ramps , and hook-ups for RV’s!  I think it was a favorite meeting place for all the Cajuns in the area... fishing, crabbing, boating, pontoons, etc!  Great fun-loving people who met to have a good time!  ( Labor Day Weekend). ( and they sold beer and worms,at the tiny store and played Dominoes at night) .

Our neighbors across the way were “ Squirrel”and “Sugar and their besties, a couple they had known since childhood in their HUGE RV with 4 pullouts and TWO refrigerators and island in kitchen and giant flat screen TV!! AND a pontoon boat they invited us out on, And also to have some deer sausage and beer with them!  Their Cajun accents and tales were a delight to listen to.. we could have talked all night... saw a gorgeous sunset  before rain cancelled all plans!  Only in a campground....in Louisiana... could you experience this! 🤗😳😉  So glad we did!  And all for $28 plus $1.50 for ice!  

PS: we found out from our Cajun friends that those wet fields we thought were flooded sugar cane fields were actually RICE fields. And THAT IS WHAT ALL THOSE  GRAIN SILOS were for!  Who knew we grew rice in Louisiana !? ( and probably sell it to China!)😳🤔😉😘