Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Laissez le bon temps rouler!


Eila and Lily with special gate-side greetings from the Mays!

Southern princesses strolling in the steamy streets of Baton Rouge


Louisiana Crawfish


Louisiana catfish

A visit to the fish market in Baton Rouge


Tiger- riding, bareback


Mike the Tiger on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge


Sandra and the girls



Eila in the fountain- Baton Rouge


Lily in the fountain


Eila being the "stomach" at the digestion session at the Children's Museum in NOLA


Grocery Shopping a the Children's Museum in New Orleans


Making crawfish soup at the Children's Museum in New Orleans


A visit with the Masons


Eila admiring the streetcar


Eila on the streetcar on Canal Street in New Orleans


Memorial tree for Leanne



International night- school project: Vietnam poster

Eila took her first visit last week to LOUISIANA to visit her buddy Lily in Baton Rouge. We were treated like royalty by our wonderful friends the Mays and we all had a fantastic and very restorative visit. We also had a blast to the past visit to New Orleans where Kushang and I met and fell in love way back in the 90's :) We had great food (of course) - lots of catfish (freshwater, of course) and Sandra's red beans and rice (Eila loved it!). We played in the fountains, saw the LSU tiger (a real, live, giant Bengal Tiger), sweated a lot!, went to the Children's museum in NOLA (if you ever go with kids, don't miss this!), and visited my dear professor John Mason and his wife for a good catching up on the past years. And a little bittersweetness- I visited the tree planted on the Tulane campus for my roommate who was killed during graduate school. A very special person was lost to violence- a beautiful tree thrives in her memory.

1 comment:

Bobby said...

Lily says "Ya'll come back real soon, you hear!" We had a great time and can't wait until the next time the girls get together.