It's so great to be on wheels so when an opportunity arises you can be there. Our son-in-law Johnny was coming to Phoenix on work and bringing Jim's daughter Jill and our granddaughter Lauren for a week. What could be better. The weather was great, we took a dip everyday while enjoying some sightseeing.
Grandpa Jim with 3 yr old granddaughter Lauren.
Jill and Lauren
Our hike through Boyce Thompson State Park
The group in Abbeville La recruited Bill and Cheryl for the Boomers and we were lucky enough to be able to meet up with them in Fredericksburg TX. We had a great (but cold) day touring Johnson's boyhood home and "The Texas White House".
Here we are doing what we do best. Dinner in the Walmart parking lot!
We thoroughly enjoyed our visit to Austin. We stayed at the Elks which is only a few miles from downtown. We would have loved to ride our bikes around town as there are some nice trails. But unforturnately the weather took a turn for the worst. It was about 40 degrees and raining! Burr.............. But we did enjoy the Lyndon B. Johnson Library, the State Capital Building, and the The Texas History Museum.
Wow didn't think I'd ever catch up on my blog. Picasa was giving me problems. And we then spent a week in Phoenix with Jim's daughter , granddaughter and son-in-law. Busy week.
After leaving Abbeville we made an overnight stay at the Livingston Escapees Park. Just doesn't feel right to go through Texas and not stop.
We then stopped at The Bush Library in College Station. Our aim is to visit all the Presidential Libraries.
On next to Austin and the Johnson Library. To date this is the only free Library we have visited.
We have enjoyed a variety of activities in our month long stay in Abbeville. We enjoyed the Erath Museum depicting Cajun Life. A tour of downtown Abbeville by the Red Hats. Live music at Savoy's, Fred's Lounge, Touchet's, and Mulate's, and Cafe des Amis. We've had a guided tour at the Longfellw-Evangeline State Historic Site. Taken pictures of the Statue of Evangeline. Enjoyed learning about the sugar industry in Jeanerette and the rice growing in New Iberia at the Konriko Company Store. Vermillionville in Lafayette is a Cajun and Creole folklife park depicting the Acadiana area from 1765-1890. Next door we also learned more about the Acadians at the Jean Lafitte Acadian Cultural Center. It was a fun packed month, we toured these places in between Mardi Gras parties. I'm sure I left something out, but oh it's just a blur......fun fun fun. 
Back to Cafe des Amis 140 E. Bridge St. in Breaux Bridge for breakfast and dancing to Zydeco music. A live band plays every Saturday morning. 8:30-11:30. Lots of fun!
Today we're stomping with Frank and Dianne
Frank and Dianne in Rayne the Frog Mural town.
Bill and Cheryl our newly recurited Boomer friends. 
The second time we went back to Suire's our favorite shrimp poboy place we were lucky enough to meet Mary the owner(standing next to Jim)and her daughter. The business is now run by her two daughters. It is a Grocery & restaurant sitting all by itself on the corner on HWY 35 south in Kaplan. We started talking about eating here in Sept. when we left Wa. state. The shrimp just melts in your mouth. And the southern hospitality, so great.....................Please come eat here! 
