BATON ROUGE

today was our day to do some sight seeing so where did we start but the old capital building which was built like an castle and heard the history of the place..most interesting how baton rouge became the capital of louisana,,,it had been new orleans now most of you know obout new orleans it is the party capital of louisana and the politicians said NO way are we giong to make new orleans the capitalaas the members of the gorernment would spend most of their time partying so we need to place the capital away for "sin city" ....it was decided to put it in baton rouge as they about 60 miles from the city and not an easy drive at the time and had NO night life...so because some of the poiliticans wanted to party the capital was moved to baton rouge...oh well..serves the right ahahahah..

we visited the old capital that was build like a castle interesting alot about huey long...

then we went to the new capital building that huey had build and looked like the empire building to us..and also has a viewing platform on top..so up we went and i must say we saw the city different..somoe great gardens around the building and walkways..

of course we aren't done yet maybe done in but still had lots more to see..so off to the lousiana state museum....after we had regisdtered we then spent alot of t ime talking to the guys at the desk and learnt how to really eart mud doge-crawfish-crawdads or what ever you want to call them...so now we really now how to eat them and get the most out of them...time to go visit the museum which we started on the third floor...we then spent at least three hrs at the museum and didn't see it all but it closed at 5pm so we had to leave..it is a museum that we would return too..

baton rouge has been a good stop and the museum have been a good visit and highly recommened for anyone to visit...very well done and most interesting..

not sure what we might do tomorrow..bike or even go on the LSU campus to visit some of their gardens just like the plantations like at cornell.....

a good stop if traveling thru lousiana and thining of visiting the capital...

the pictures ae taking their sweet old time so i am going to send this off...