Road trip #2 of the holiday season... Natchitoches, La., for the Christmas Festival of Lights. We hit the road around noon on Friday and toured the backroads and swamplands of Louisiana for nearly five hours before arriving at our final destination. This was my third trip to this neat little Louisiana river town (once for work in the newspaper days and once for a long weekend with Drew and Kristin) but my first visit at Christmas.
"Steel Magnolias" was filmed here (the Steel Magnolias B&B is pictured above), and it's like a city set back in time. The Christmas lights stay strung over the brick streets year-round but when they actually turn the lights on, it's truly breathtaking. No camera will do it justice, but we tried to get a few good shots anyways.
It was ugly weather all weekend long, but Friday night we had dinner downtown and then spent all day Saturday shopping and sight-seeing. We rented some wheelchairs from a local pharmacy to make it easier for Granny and Pap to get around, and I think they really enjoyed the "free ride." :) We ate some famous Natchitoches meat pies at Lasyone's and then walked around at the carnival down by the river, which is where the picture with the baby gator was taken above.
It was a trip Granny had wanted to take for years now, and I'm so glad we got to experience it as a family. It was worth the long drive and the cold, ugly weather. It really puts you in the Christmas spirit. :)
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