Today we moved from Houston area (New Caney) to Abbeville, LA. We used IS 10 most of the way, but then transferred down to LA IS 14 and meandered through miles and miles of bayou and crawfish farms. No traffic fortunately since the roads are rather narrow for a bigrig. Eventually we made it to Abbeville and Betty's RV Park. Betty greeted us and got us settled and invited us to a happy hour at 4:30. It was only 3:30 and the front of our coach and windshield were literally covered with "lovebugs". Rob set to cleaning them off while I set up the coach. By 5:00 we were ready to join the happy hour. We brought our glasses of wine and joined in. The group (this park has only 17 spots and it's not full yet) was deciding on ordering crawfish for dinner from a local joint. We decided to order 3 pounds, never having eaten them before.
OMG....What fun! Betty instructed us on the proper way to approach these critters!. We dug in. After a few minutes I figured out I was picking up the ones Rob had already worked at. I couldn't figure out why I couldn't get any meat out. Luckily Betty was sitting next to me and worked me through another lesson. She even gave me a few of hers.
After two bottles of wine, between me and Rob, and 3 pounds of crawfish we finally mastered the process. Next time we'll go for 10 pounds for the two of us.
The debris from our crawfish meal.
The love bugs probably don't show up too well in this photo, but the front of the coach is covered.
Our plans for this area are fluid at this point. We may stay longer than the three days we've planned for.
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After one hour's effort, I finally got the first layer of "Love Bugs" off the coach. Had to quit to go eat "Mud Bugs"
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