Day 165. January 18, 2014. Lively campground

We are at Palmetto Island State Park for a total of 4 nights.  Although we were able to extend our stay, we had to move to a different site as someone had reserved ours.  Kind of a pain to move.  We thought our TV antenna was broken so borrowed a ladder from a neighbor.  Nothing seemed wrong.  Then, this neighbor looked at our TV, and found that we had not programmed it correctly.  So, that was a relief. 

We went into town (Abbeville) to another "world famous" Louisiana restaurant.  It was packed.  Someone told us it is a tradition to eat out on Saturdays.  We had smoked duck and andouille sausage gumbo.  Really tasty and huge bowl.  We ran some errands

The road into town has crawfish ponds that look a lot like cranberry bogs.  The season is coming up.

They also have  rice and sugar cane fields.  There is also a small airport with helicopters used to shuttle workers out to the offshore oil rigs.  Oil is big business here.

More and more campers keep coming in.  Absolutely everyone has a big pickup.  Lots of kids.  People ride around in golf carts pimped up with sound systems blaring Cajun music.  It is really like a festival atmosphere.  

We invited our neighbors (the TV helper) and his wife over for a glass of wine.  They are from Ontario.  I served an appetizer dish I had learned in Chile several years ago:  Smash one ripe avacado.  To that, add 2 tsp  each of soy sauce and Worchestire sauce.  Salt, pepper and a squeeze of lemon.  Mix and serve on French bread.  They liked it.

For dinner, I made stir-fried rice with leftover rice, remaining veg, egg, and diced summer sausage.  Quite good.

We listened to Prairie Home Companion until we lost signal.