Yet another day comes to a close, and here I am sitting at my computer at night, typing up another blog. However, I'm in an alternate location yet again. ("yet" twice in two sentences...hmm...) Tonight I get to look out the window at the beautiful mountains of Little Cottonwood Canyon. The moonlight is shining and reflecting off of the snow, and touching the trees, almost causing them to glow. It's great. (no, I'm not normally a poetic person....maybe) It's very relaxing up here away from it all. The whole point of this vacation is relaxation, and I am determined to get it. We come up here every year on the same week as a family. (gotta love time-shares) So it just happens that it's pure coincidence that I have two week long vacations in a row, and I think it's pretty nice. It's just a shame I hadn't earned enough vacation leave from work to be paid during it all, so I'll be a little short on money for a while, but oh well, I needed a vacation, and I was blessed with two!
I think I was supposed to talk more about my vacation to Louisiana today. I'll talk a bit about my relatives. The main purpose for going down to Louisiana was for a family reunion, which happened the day after we landed, leaving the rest of the week open to do whatever we wanted. It's great to see that many Baham's in one location at once, because here in Utah, there are only just a few. All of the Bahams are in the deep south. Let me tell you, they have a really STRONG southern accent. Sometimes I couldn't even understand what they were saying, all I could do was smile and nod. If I had to be blatently honest, my relatives are what some people call "red-necks". You know, you always hear those jokes from comedians like "If your porch collapses, and kills more than two dogs, you might be a red neck..." or "If you finally get around to cutting your lawn, and you discover more than two cars, you might be a red neck..." (it's always "more than two" for some reason....) Yeah...that's my family EXACTLY. Tank tops, baseball hats, southern drawl, a whole fridge dedicated to just holding the beer (seriously, that was a lot of beer, I HAD to take a picture), and various other things. However, I'm not ashamed, I'm quite proud of my family members. They were really nice, and hospitable, especially when they cooked fresh crawdads for us (SO tasty!). They even had a cooler full of live one that we got to play with...right up until they poured them into a HUGE boiling pot of cajun spices. To eat them, you break off the head, suck all of the juices out of it (it sounds gross, but once you do it the first time, you are over it due to the amazing taste), then, using your thumb, you push from the bottom of the tail while biting the exposed meat, and pull all of it out. Yum yum! I had a blast! The heat and humidity was a challenge for my family to get used to (100 degrees+100% humidity=difficult). THANKFULLY, I spent the last two years on an island in the Atlantic (England) and it wasn't that hard for me to get used to again.
Anyway, that's all I'll put for now. I'm being asked off by my family since my laptop is lighting up the dark room that they are trying to sleep in. :P
P.S. I ate about 50 crawdads.....at least.
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