Lafayette, LA

Yesterday we moved to a campground at Eunice, LA.  We will be here for at least a week.  Today we drove over to Lafayette, LA.  First we stopped to see St. John the Evangelist Cathedral.  I thought it would be a quick stop, but there was much to see there.  First of all the building itself was beautiful.

 

 Before you enter the building there is a huge old (estamated 300 yrs) live oak tree.

 

The interior is also very beautiful.  The pipe organ was really impressive.

 

 And this is just a small sample of the stained glass windows.

 

Next door is a Cathedral museum.  One of the displays is a collection of over 300 year old puppet type characters arranged in sets built by the two men who collected them.  There were three cabinets of them

 

Mom is standing next to one of the small ones to show its size.

 



 

 The detail of the displays is amazing.

 

After we left the Cathedral we walked down the street to Johnson's Boucaniere (means smokehouse)for lunch.  Smoked sausage with a tasso picante sauce, cole slaw and potato salad.

 

 



Then we headed over to the Jean Lafitte Acadian Culture Center there in Lafayette.  There were many displays showing the history of the Cajun people and a pretty good movie about them.  They were closing at 5:00 as we left.  The owners of the campground here had given us a good place to eat supper.  It is called D.I.'s.  A little place out in the country with a live cajun band and good food.  Mom had boiled crawfish and I had shrimp etouffee and fried shrimp.

 

We enjoyed listening to the band and watching people dance.  But it was soon time for two tired people to go home.