Exploration Day

Wednesday morning came early for the two of us. We are use to getting up early now so we were both up at 6:30. The first thing on our list of things to do was check out of the motel where Sherri was suppose to be staying. She has to rent a motel room to get her expenses for the week…does that makes sense? Oh well rules are rules and se have to follow them. Anyway we got up and got our showers drank some coffee and headed out to the Comfort Inn to take care of that.

After we got here checked out we decided to eat a good breakfast and found a IHOP on the Garmin that was not too far from our location. We went there and had a real good breakfast with all the trimmings.

Our next chore was to find a Post Office to mail Sherri’s expense report off to the home office. Now that is when the problem started. I had programmed the Garmin to take us to a Post Office down Evangeline Thruway which would have been on the way to St Martinsville…our first destination of the day. Well as my luck would have it there was no Post Office at that location t hat we could find…and that is when the battle ensued . Sherri is the planner of the group and not me….so when my first plan of the day fell through I received a block of instruction on how I should have plotted the course to the Post Office…of which I took real good notes and from now on I will follow those instructions. You have to understand I am new at this exploration thing and not being a good planner I really messed up the day.

Oh that was just the beginning of my problem. Not much else that I did in the way of navigating the exploration was done correctly and it made for a day of scolding and more blocks of instructions of how to. In all honesty I did a very poor job of planning but over all the day was exciting to say the least. We got t0 see s0 many things that neither of us had ever seen and I really enjoyed the day with my wonderful wife and I sure did learn a lot about how to plan out an exploration trip. From now on you will see a much better person in charge of navigation while exploring our surroundings.

I took several pictures which I will share with you. I will caption them for you so that you will have some idea of where we were…not that I knew where I was….Oh well you will get the idea.

 

Our first stop was theEvangiline State Park just outside of St Martinsville. This is the visitors center.

This is the center piece of the park when you drive in. Wow I love these old trees…this one is about 500 years old.

Replica of a period house in the Arcadian settlement

Sherri jumped a snake here at this bridge and the screams could  be heard for miles around…they said they heard them up at the visitors center.

Our next adventure was in New Iberia at the Shadows on the Teche

 

House looks pretty impressive from the front but it is not very large inside. The rooms on the bottom floor do not connect? You have to go outside to go from room to room…what kind of a deal is that eh. Lots of history in these old houses and it was interesting to see.

View of the back of the house from the gardens. This home set on the Teche Bayou and the grounds were beautiful.

This tree was 500 years old…imagine what it had witnessed over those years.

This is the Bayou that the home sets on. Absolutely breath taking views from all angles.

Spotted this plaque on the way back home and just had to stop and get some pictures of the old trees on this road.

 

This road went on forever and was lined with all the giant oaks.

This giant tree had a bird house carved into the side of it. What a deal for you bird lovers out there…

Well better head home laundry is done and so is this segment of our adventure….hope to see you again…

Somewhere in Time.