Return of Christmas Vacation

I put all the picture up on Yahoo. There are 251 of them and 100 or so of those are Waveland so prepare yourself.

OK. Where was I? Christmas Eve. After the Quarter the crazy Christmas schedule began. Church with the LeSaicherres, dinner with the Hymels, drinks with the Dickeys, wrapping presents at my parents, sleep, presents with Melissa, presents with my parents, presents with Melissa parents, drive to Baton Rouge, lunch with the Mourases, drive from Baton Rouge to English Turn, dinner with the Dickeys, back to my parents, sleep. Sweet sweet sleep.


Monday. I don't really remember much. We had the day of Christmas thing we do with Melissa's Houston family then went to Frankie and Johnny's for dinner. They seemed to be having a little trouble with deliveries so we had to eat our shrimp on hamburger buns. Didn't bother me. It was still tasty.


Tuesday. A group of us had lunch at Madina's then Melissa and I spent a little time at Jerry's Annual Lakeview Party, held this year in River Ridge for obvious reasons. After a quick hello and goodbye with met up with the LeSaicherre's for Joan's bday dinner at Sal and Sam's. The steak was good. The cake was good. The flipping through baby pictures after was good.


Wednesday. We met up with Tony and Amee and did our annual hang out in the Quarter Day. Jerry met up with us and we had lunch at Palace and drinks at Molly's and Tropical Isle. For dinner we had a vegetarian dish made by my sister back at my parent's place.


Thursday. Jerry picked us up in the cop car and we drove over to Waveland. It really is amazing to see how things look now. We walked around the lot, down the beach, and up Coleman. Hard to describe. On the way back to town we drove through Meraux by a friends house and had the house in the middle of the road experience, then went through the lower nine to see the barge. As the sun was setting we walked through friends homes in Lakeview. And yes I still want to move back. To change the mood we met up with the Barattinis, had dinner at Mona's, dessert at Creole Creamery, then went to Celebration in the Oaks.


Friday. Played golf at Timberlane with Chuck, Andy, and the Poog. Shot a 102 which on that course is damn good for me. Birdied 17 as well. We headed over to the SDDs for the LSU game and got to see most of it in the media room. After I got to spend some much needed time with the cousins.


Saturday. Took a little bit of a lazy day. Visited Stella in St Rose in the evening then spent New Year's near the river in the fog with the Barattini's.


Sunday. Met up with Melissa's friend Autumn at Starbucks. Lost to Chris in overtime to lose the Madden Bowl. Had dinner with the two families at Acme Oyster House.