Today was another fun sightseeing day. We started the day driving through the New Orleans Southern Baptist Seminary. They have a really pretty campus there with a lovely chapel and large live oak trees. They have a Lifeway store there also so we just had to stop and shop for a short while. :-) Then we found our way onto the Pontchartrain Causeway. It's a 20+ mile bridge from the south shore to the north shore of the lake. Found a Backyard Burger restaurant for lunch in Mandeville and enjoyed a good lunch topped off with blackberry cobbler and ice cream! YUM! Drove to Fontainebleau State Park - a wonderful place. Enjoyed extremely large live oak trees just covered with moss and resurrection ferns, lots of birds (golden eagles, great horned owls, egrets, ducks, pelicans and lots of little birds flitting all over the place). Spent a good amount of time with GreyHawk Perkins, a Choctaw Indian, who works at the Visitors' Center, listening to his stories and watching him make wooden implements and an arrowhead. Could have stayed longer. It was a truly beautiful place. We were lucky enough to be returning on the causeway at sunset and caught the picture of the pelican at sunset above. What a wonderful day! Tomorrow it's church at 9:30 am and then move Barnabas along to Sulphur, LA on the way to Houston.
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Linda and Andy made it to Houston and we're so glad they made it here. The weather has been pretty dreary and cool. I sure hope it warms up and clears up, so they can get a taste of what Houston winter (or lack thereof) is usually like.
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