Day 164. January 17, 2014. Laissez les Bon temps rouler!

Let the good times roll, as they say in Cajun French!  

We were able to extend our stay at this campground through Monday.  We decided to do this once we realized that this is a holiday weekend.  Glad we did.....this campground had had about 10 campers on Thursday, and now there about 100 campers.  All are local.  Music is playing, campfires blazing, and fat fryers cooking.  Here we are with our Mardi Gras beads on our campsite marker

We took a long bike ride and saw more wildlife...wild pigs, possum, and armadillos.  

We went into town to eat at a "world famous" seafood restaurant.  We sat at the bar with hunters and folks starting the weekend.  We had a delicious seafood salad, with grilled crawfish, crab, shrimp.  We did grocery shopping and filled up the propane tank.  We have had to run the heat at night quite a bit.

We went on a ranger-led night hike.  We were the only people.  We walked around the forest for about an hour.  We saw armadillos.  The ranger showed us the huge bite marks from bears on the dumpsters.  

We boiled some blue crabs over the campfire.  Since I didn't want to smell up the camper, we sat around the fire and ate the crabs.  For dinner, we had the last of the crawfish boudin in a tomato/veg sauce over rice.  I also made a kale au gratin side dish.