This is another 50-year reminiscent event for us. Paul was about 2 weeks old when we launched out from Beeville to Pensacola to show him to her parents. Friends loaned us a pick-up with a slide in camper for the trip. We got tired about the time we approached New Orleans and saw signs for this state park. We pulled in, had dinner, and walked the dog. Being August it was steamy humid, drizzly, and generally gray. I took our little black dog out for a walk and when I came back in he shook and it looked like his fur was flying off – it was mosquitoes. We couldn’t find any mosquito spray in the camper so spent a very busy time killing mosquitoes to keep them off our new baby.
Remembering the change it made in Chloe’s perspective on traveling in the truck when we took her with us on a scenic drive at the Grand Canyon with a lot of stops to see interesting things, we took them for a drive around the Fountainebleu State Park. We drove to see a ruined sugar refinery from the mid-1800s and then to the beach on the shore of Lake Pontchartain. They sniffed a lot and seemed to be excited to get into the truck to go somewhere else. They were not interested in the lake water at all although Buddy tried to get Chloe to play with him in the sand. It gives him the zoomies.