Lake Charles

I spent a fantastic five days in Lake Charles, LA, visiting my grand­par­ents for Thanksgiving.

One of the days we hopped in the car (cars, rather, since there were six of us) and drove around down­town and the lake­front area to see how the city is working to recover from Hurricane Rita. This is a water park situ­ated on a little jut of land that extends into Lake Charles, from which you can view the bridge to I-10, as well as the spot where the Harrah’s Casino came loose from its moor­ings during Hurricane Rita.

I really loved this hand­painted sign, and the fact that the city had chosen to preserve it.

Then there was the usual merri­ment – lots of food, good wine, good conver­sa­tion, as well as the expected photo­graphic silli­ness. Some of it involving Santa hats: