Help has arrived...

The Lone Star State has brought us family and most importantly ... child care. My mom, dad, sister and brother-in-law have joined us for some R & R at the beach in Port Aransas, Texas (southeast part of Texas). The best part is that they're staying in their own RV so we can actually send the children over to grandma and grandpa's! Yesterday morning when the kids awoke at 7:00 am they wanted to go and see their grandparents. Now, who am I to stop such cute kids from spending quality time with their grandparents? I must admit it was a little weird eating breakfast at our trailer... it was so QUIET! Fortunately, I got over it.

We had a fantastic time in Lafayette, Louisiana and strongly recommend Fezzo's restaurant to anyone looking for some Louisiana crawfish. I gotta say - I'd tried crawfish before and thought it was OK but nothing special. Well, on our first night there we walk into this restaurant that is full of locals who have enormous platters of crawfish infront of them. The tables are even built extra large to accomodate these enormous platters. Recognizing that the locals must know something so we order 2 lbs of crawfish. Ha ha ha. Turns out the average per sitting per person is 5 lbs of crawfish. Not only did we order more now I'm trying to figure out how one would order these Louisiana 'mud bugs' in Canada.

Not sure what our next plans are. My sister, Cathy, and her husband, Vern, fly back to Canada on Saturday but my parents are going to spend another week or so with us and we'll all go to the San Antonio/Austin area. (Where Todd is talking about getting one of those enormous Texas bumpers installed on the truck. "OK", I said "As long as we can get a big set of Texas longhorns mounted on the top of them"... wouldn't that be cool?). After that, we're not so sure. It is still a little cold further north so we might try and stay in south Texas a little longer. If anyone has any suggestions, let me know.

Carmen.