Thursday morning,
06NOV, after spending two great days with our friends Chuck & Anneke
Guldenschuh, we left Tickfaw State Park & headed to Dixie RV in Hammond,
LA, to have them look at our dash AC system.
After sitting around all day we learned the magnetic clutch on the new
AC compressor was bad & it looks like we may need an entirely new
compressor. After all day at Dixie we
had to drive from the RV facility to our daughter Rebecca & husband
Raymond’s house in Houma, LA, after sunset; during the drive we learned how bad
our front lights were. Something else to
add to the “to do list”. Since it was
dark we had to park the RV in their driveway using flashlights for hand
signals, because Corrie couldn’t see Dan’s hand in the dark.
Friday afternoon Dan
headed over to Polar Aut-O-Air to discuss the warranty on the dash AC compressor
they installed last year. We make an
appointment with Polar’s owner to bring the RV in next week, for them to
trouble shoot. Not much is done the next
week with Dan fighting a cold, medical appointments & Corrie xmas shopping.
Thursday, 13NOV, we take
RV to Polar Aut-O-Air; & then head off to more medical appointments. Dan who rarely gets sick has been under the
weather for the last week, so for the first time in forever he will go with prescriptions
to cure his ailment. When we pick up the
RV we learn that the problem may have been just a loose compressor belt not the
magnetic clutch? Since we have been
without dash AC for almost a year, Polar’s owner extended the compressor
warranty by six months.
Friday, 21NOV, we head
to the Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center in Thibodaux, LA, a part of the Jean
Lafitte National Historical Park & Preserve. Jean Lafitte Park & Preserve is unique in
that it is spread over six different geographic locations in Louisiana – New
Orleans, Eunice, Lafayette, Thibodaux, Barataria & Chalmette. See below BLOG entry for our visit to the New
Orleans French Quarter Visitor center back in FEB11. We had planned on visiting the Wetlands
Acadian Cultural Center on Monday, 10NOV, to take one of their weekly bayou
boat tours, but it was cancelled because they didn’t have eight paying
customers. On this particular tour you
get a long boat ride of Bayou Lafourche, with a lunch & tour at Madewood
Plantation. It was great day, except the
boat ride back into a headwind!
Sunday, 23NOV, we
headed into New Orleans for Cirque du Soleil’s “Varekai”. First stop was at the “Butcher” deli right
next door to one of our favorite restaurants “Cochon” (that we discovered in
February 2011) for lunch. Then it was
off to Varekai. We have seen five of
these Cirque du Soleil productions, but the last one was way back in October of
2007 (how time flies?). We are big fans
of Cirque du Soleil, & highly recommend seeing one of their “shows” if you
haven’t! In our opinion Verakai was
good, but not as great as the previous five we have seen, still worth seeing!
Monday, 24NOV,
around lunch we fired up RV & headed to Bayou Segnette State Park to “camp”
with grandson Jaxson. We had talked
about doing this with Rebecca & Raymond previously; but this was a good
time to actually do it because Jaxson’s daycare was closed all week for
Thanksgiving. After setting up camp it
was off to the playground, followed by a short hike & then smores around
the campfire.
Tuesday morning Dan
made a Mickie D run for breakfast. Then
it was off to the Barataria Preserve Trails section of the Jean Lafitte National
Historical Park & Preserve.
Unfortunately the visitor center is closed on Monday & Tuesday
thanks to never ending federal budget problems.
While there we hiked most of Bayou Coquille Trail (2 mile round trip)
before Jaxson ran out of energy. Then it
was back to the RV for late lunch & the movie PLANES (apparently one of
Jaxson’s favorites?). Late that
afternoon we re-started the fire for a dinner of marshmallows &
hotdogs. Jaxson already wants to go home,
but we showed the movie FROZEN to distract him & then tried to put him to
bed; which did not work. So Dan
volunteered to stay up with Jaxson, who finally falls asleep laying on opa on the
couch sometime after 11:30PM. Wednesday
morning was the short drive back to home in Houma, LA.
Thursday (turkey
day) in the morning Dan headed out with Raymond, Rebecca & grandkids to
tour replicas of Christopher Columbus’s vessels the NINA & the PINTA. The organization that sponsors the vessels
does not have a replica of the SANTA MARIA because its draft would preclude it
from visiting inland ports; & most of their port visits for fund raising
are shallow water ports. As it is, the
NINA is to scale but the PINTA has been enlarged to allow social events below
deck (AC has even been added to the PINTA).
One fact Dan didn’t know was the crew lived on deck the entire voyage,
because below decks was for storage of supplies only! A great Thanksgiving turkey dinner was at Joe
& Tasha’s, with contributions from Corrie & Rebecca.
The last day of
November, Sunday, Rebecca, Raymond & the grandkids headed out to get a xmas
tree. Then the rest of day was spent
getting the house xmas lights strung; & after dinner decorating the xmas
tree. A real challenge with Mason trying
to help:)!
The rest of the
month was spent:
---dealing with a string
of illness probably started by Dan
---playing Yahtzee
& a card game called Phase 10
---Dan BBQ’ing
pulled pork
---Saturday, 22NOV, Rebecca
& Raymond’s dryer breaks, it is decided to replace both the washer &
dryer
---family dinners
including Joe & Tasha in attendance
---xmas shopping
including Black Friday shopping (including small business Saturday & cyber
Monday)
---“camp” fires in the
back yard
---taking batman to
the local playground
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