EUNICE. LA

today finds us going off in a different directions but to a national park...this one is the crop growing part of lousianna...we saw many fields of rice and crawfish...some of you might know that they flod the rice fields to helpt the rice grow --so they also grow crawfish in the smae fields....the season for crawfish is right now and we saw several of the fields getting harvested for the crawfish..what a smart idea is to be able to get 2 diffferent crops from one field..we aren't sure how they plant the crawfish if they just throw in lots of adults and let them have fun or do they throw in bsabies lie the fish back home..maybe it is a bunch of eggs --we don't know but i think we could goggle it to really find out...something to do later... then we arrived at the national park and we were the only ones in there and had a good chat with the ranger on duty NO we did not work on a junior ranger badge as it would have been the same one we got yesterday...then a walk around town and it appeared to be anice town...we were told about the old fashioned mardi gras where they come into town on horses all dressed up and the party begins one of theseays we would like to be where they held this fat tues is the day..cause at midnight everyone goes home because it is the beginning of lent...put bhtye catch chickens and get all kinds of food and make a really big pot of gumbo for the whole town to eat--sounds like fun....