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Cajuns, suicide bombers, and the Holiday Inn (Le Marais Series – Part I)

In my distant past, it was a "Lounge Lizard." It not the type of Liberace – just me and an acoustic guitar. Anyway, my booking agent sent me everywhere. Cool! I was in My twenties, came to travel, does some pasta, I learned a few hundred songs, so good.

Therefore, I Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and I got the call he had one week to reach Morgan City, Louisiana. (Check a map.) Completed my concert at the Hotel McDonald in Edmonton, and left on a Sunday morning through the center of the United States. I stopped to visit my grandmother Houston, hit Highway 10, turned right on Lafayette on Highway 90 and entered a strange world. A strange world fantastic.

Spanish moss dripping from trees, turtles basking on logs in the water near the road, many armadillos (boring) had died last night … and wooden cabins were scattered here and there. I arrived at noon at a place called crayfish Blanco. No by gravel – crushed white shells formed by unpaved roads. I tried a few pounds of lobsters, was an instant junk error mud, threw a Dixie beer, and went on the road.

There were fields of sugar cane. There were swamps. I went from parish " the parish, I loved, rather than county, "and tried to wrap my brain how to pronounce words like Atchafalaya. A mid-term review of the 90, just outside New Orleans right, I got to Morgan City and asked the Holiday Inn. My concert.

Luggage, I have my room key, he learned he was the show put up my own business, the scenario has changed clothes, and went down to 4 sets of music that I thought of editing. also asks, of course. Very easy! Very! Drinks just kept coming! On the road back to the room that night, I realized that there were "conditioned outdoor air" in each room. Under each was a small puddle of condensation. And in each pond, a frog. I was in heaven.

Fast forward about 15 years. I try to explain everything to my husband, a native of Michigan. I added the stories of learning to ski on a river, attempted to explain that seemed pickled pigs lips, but I have a glassy stare in return. To prove he was not a fat liar, we have reserved our next vacation to Houston, rented a car, went to Grandma, and we left with our final destination being New Orleans.

Soon on Highway 90, I was hooked. It is incredibly beautiful in a disturbing manner. This time, lunch was pizza lobster. Woah, mama. You have not lived until you've had a few. For my full memory lane, we book a night – the hotel Holiday Inn! But we've checked, and click on the show. Empty. I mean ghost town. Where was everybody? The bartender suggested bowling. Nope. Person was there. Discouraged, the back lounge at the Holiday Inn red slipper. We went to the room, because there was nowhere where to go, and that is where the game let out.

Draped lace curtains in the Spanish Moss trees

We went from 0-60 in about 20 minutes flat. Morgan City College (or other) had won. The place was full! We Lounge Lizards have long been replaced by DJ Cheerleaders in uniform, dancing in the bar! The villagers were ordered, especially Kamikazes. For the launcher. Kamikaze cocktail composed of parts equal vodka, triple sec and either lemon juice or lime. It usually comes in a small glass. No Cajun country.

I had my Cajun dialect very well – I had done several tours of service at the Holiday Inn for many years – eight weeks to pop, thrice. I Nearly one in Morgan City. Soon we were at a table in June, beating Kazi, "with stories of Cajun and swamp-mom. My Granmama that spirit shoes feel like walking tree? Shoe Tree, Granmama? Yes Yours and mine or two or a "- until it stops!" And comparisons with granmama tells the story of the worst horrible Rougarou, most often described as a creature with a human body and the head of a wolf or a dog – like the legendary werewolf for grandchildren keep venturing into the swamp. It worked. And in the evening.

We had new best friends. A beefy guy name Ricky Fredricks Cajun, Cajun and lean his girlfriend he called "Dear", which sounds like "Sha" then we have done too, because we do not know his real name. So if there was a skinny boy Cajun name Boudreaux, who had traveled on his bike. More pitching Kazi. My soul for a recorder! For now, he does not remember a damn thing in the morning. Tabernero said that we are cut off. Ricky told them that we and he and Cher have been guests and Boudreaux was on a bike. We squeaked in two pitchers, just before last call.

Dear whispers in my ear. She suggests, "Hey, Cher! (Whadaya know! Same name!) You're a gap that I muthus and go stab us bull frogs! "I refused.

Back in the room around 4:00 am, the accelerated air conditioners – one per room. Under each, a puddle of water. In each basin, a frog. "Do not believe me, I do everything," said the husband. No, no, I did not. Truth is stranger than fiction.

About the Author

Victoria Reid is a veteran author, business writer, editor and journalist. Her primary genre is non-fiction, humorous short stories written from a semi-autobiographical perspective. Light, and fun.

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