the moonlight on the bayou... a cajun tune that fills the air.

Day 15, and we just left Louisiana.
Matt finished up the week doing shows in the Slidell area. As promised, puppets on the puppet blog. Here's some behind the scenes action for you!

With the shows out of the way, we spent the rest of our time planning for the wedding. Now that my ring has been shipped in, the last big thing on our wedding list is a caterer. As I've said, we're really trying to show the Sandbanks a side of Louisiana they've never seen before. Preferably a side that isn't hot and sticky. Since landscape has already been covered, we'll move on to Louisiana's next best feature, specialty meats. Here in South Louisiana we eat everything from alligators to crawfish. We also get a kick out of stuffing birds with different kinds of birds (you may have heard of the infamous turducken. If you haven't, I'll give you three guesses as to what it is). So, in our search for a caterer, we began with a boucaniere or "smokehouse".
TASTE TEST: Johnson's Boucaniere.Not only does Johnson's offer an excellent menu of various smoked meats, it also placed first at the 2009 Boudin Cook-off in the "unlinked boudin" category. Boudin is a sort of cajun pork sausage that will be featured at our wedding. We sampled the brisket sausage sandwich, and the fried boudin balls. Verdict: Impressive and delicious. Still, Johnson's Boucaniere doesn't seem to do much besides meat, so we moved on.TASTE TEST: NuNu's Fresh MarketWe weren't at NuNu's long before we learned of their credentials. First place in "people's choice", third in "traditional boudin", and second in "unlinked boudin". Oh, snap! Catering: check.
The rest of the weekend was filled with food and dance and family. Watch here as Matt works his booty off to become America's Next Wii Dance Champion, only to "lose" to my niece Anouche.


title song.