The first week in February my parents, sister, brother-in-law, and nephew were all able to come visit! It's the first time my mom and Tyler have been able to come down since we moved here, so we were happy it finally happened! It was a little chaotic combining all the napping schedules (Roman would fall asleep, and then dad would figure he should nap as well, so then Scott or Tyler would too, but then Roman would wake up, and by the time we would all finally be ready to leave Roman would need a nap again...) but we made it happen!
We had all sorts of exciting adventures. We spent one day wandering the French Quarter and showing them around our neighborhood. The next day we spent an afternoon wandering uptown; riding the street car, eating at fun restaurants, and checking out all the beautiful houses on St. Charles St.
Walking to Audubon park
We took a swamp tour the next day. This time around we did the more "mild" version (we decided an air boat might be a little too intense for a 6mo old) and all of us piled on the pontoon boat together for a leisurely ride through some canals and bayous in the swamp.
On the boat for the swamp tour!
The younger alligators were brave and came swimming right up to our boat so we could get a good look at them. We saw a few birds and one gross snake as well.
This big guy was bored with us...
Towards the end of the trip our guide pulled out his "pet" gator and wrapped a little hair binder around his (her?) nose so we could hold it. I was slightly worried, but we all decided to brave it. I mean really, it was a little one and Scott's seen worse bites from them in the ER so what's the worst that could happen? Right?
Dad may have gotten slightly carried away...
Hopefully my mom doesn't have to worry too much, I doubt they would do well as pets in Wisconsin.
Scott had to work for a few hours on the Monday before everyone left, so I took my parents out to Oak Alley Plantation and we got the tour. It was another great day of seeing more of Louisiana and getting to spend some very enjoyable time with them.
We all had a great time together and I'm so glad we were all finally able to get together here.
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