How sad is this puppy?  Poor Pascal searched high and low last night for Ginger and her friend, Miz Lucky (her blog monicker…courtesy of a cute little boy who kept asking how she got lucky).  I thought I might have to frisk Miz Lucky when she left!  She totally fell in love with Pascal. 

 

 

We all had tons of fun, and seldom stopped laughing from the moment they arrived.  Of course, a fair amount of that was at M.’s expense, but he’s used to that sort of thing since Ginger and I have always found him very comical.    Put the two of us in a room and you’ve got a gigglefest.  Add Miz Lucky and you’re in for a riot. 

 

 

When we weren’t giggling, we were taking a whirlwind tour of Cane River plantation country and Natchitoches.  Plantations, grave markers in French, and truffles from Les Saisons’ Front Street candy shop conspired to make a lovely day (despite heat that would’ve made Scarlett O’Hara strip off her gusset in full view of the gentry).  And on their way out of town, we all stopped for lunch at a Korean Sports Bar & Grill which is the weirdest concept you can imagine (one menu had Yaki dumplings, hamburgers, and crawfish pies…they had one vegetarian dish only, and the waitress was highly confused by my request to have a salad without the meat…I don’t think we’ll be going back there which in Leesville, Louisiana cuts the number of decent non-chain restaurants to about 3). 

 

 

We miss them both terribly.  I can’t wait for next year! 

 

 

P.S.- Thankfully, I did manage to get some running water for them.  Unfortunately, I didn’t get them handles for the shower.  lol  No complaints, though.  Last year, we didn’t have hot water at all, and Ginger took baths in our huge tub via several pots of boiling water!  We’re moving up in the world! 

P.P.S.- My instructor finally got back to me (9 days to get an answer), and she said the dreaded word: resubmit.  Damn it!  I have to rewrite the whole thing.  Whaaa!