Tanner feeds his new Cajun friend at the Lafayette Visitor Center

 

Our room was the Prime Minister's Suite.

 

The view from our room at the Chretien Point Plantation where we stayed outside of Lafayette.

 

Do you believe in ghosts? Elsie, our hostess showed us these eerie children's footprints that mysteriously appeared a couple of weeks before we arrived. She has tried to clean them off but nothing can take them away. I rubbed my hand on them and it didn't even smudge...spooky!

 

Chretien Point

 

Joy on the swamp tour bathed in sunscreen

 

 

Love those gators!!!

 

Tanner on the swamp tour

 

Welcome to Lafayette- a sign at the visitor center

We saw the Mona Lisa at the Louvre, but I think that the woman in front is much prettier.

In Barcelona we ran across a Salvador Dali exhibit. It was great, but often very WIERD!

Kate Malone is an artist that Joy greatly admires, and she proved to be a wonderful host as well. She was very kind during our stay in Cotignac and continues to mentor Joy through the internet.

The house we stayed in was over three hundred years old, but it somehow reminded me of the houses in the first Star Wars movie with it's white smooth curving walls.

Cotignag was one of Joy's favorite places. Located in Southern France, an amazing thing about this place is the natural caves. You can see the buildings in the cliff wall, there are actually caves in the wall that go under the town. They were used as hiding places during the resistance.

Spain was fun, but Joy cryed at the bull fight.

Fun was to be had for all at this former Augustiniun Monestery. The Augustiniuns were the ones that brewed the beer if the giant barrel and mug didn't give it away!

The hills are alive with the...

We went on the Sound of Music tour in Salzburg. Do you remember this house?