... on the way to baton rouge we wandered a bit along some back roads, one of which i've a haze of childhood memories ... we ate some really good fried chicken fingers, and, being from a state where the snow was still falling, enjoyed watching the bass fisherman casting into the bayous and streams ... then, per our mission philosophy that "there's no such thing as too hokey to stop and see," we visited the alligator farm ... it was fabulous ... if anything, i learned that dull, sluggard, lazy reptiles can move astonishingly fast when a chicken leg is dangled above their heads ...
... almost as exciting, adrien did a good job of managing her aversion to any and all feathered creatures by almost touching a giant emu ...
... since i enjoyed the alligators so much, i decided to give them a second go around ...
... mmmmmmm ... and, of course, it's clear that the alligators liked jon and adrien ...
... on the way out we tried to avoid purchasing any souvenirs ...
... and in the parking lot we made a point of avoiding anyone who had ...
NIKON D200 & OLYMPUS E-PL1