Gretna Fest

These are pictures from our trip to the Gretna Heritage Festival, or "Gretna Fest."


Carnival rides!



Rows and rows of food vendors with Louisiana style cooking and fair food.

Sooooo many people!!!

So many people again!!

Picture of us sitting in the grass. Didn't turn out well, but it was very dark.

Gator Fest

This afternoon we visited the Louisiana Gator Fest for a couple hours. It was soooooooo hot. This is an annual festival thrown by St Tamany Parish to raise money and promote tourism within the parish. There were carnival rides, booths with Saints merchandise for sale, live music, a daquari tent, food tent, and live alligators!!!


Here is the big gator in a cage.



This gator is about 4 years old. He was very calm.

This little baby gator was very squirmy. He and his friends had a race every hour. We couldn't see them racing because too many people were crowded around.

Many dishes were served. We ate fried crawfish balls, alligator jambalaya, and potato ribbons. Other dishes included: fried eggplant, fried gator bites, gator sausage on a stick, meat pies, po-boys, fried shrimp, etc.

Thanks Mom!

Just received my September Christmas present from my mom!!! Accessories that go with our set of dishes!!!

Happy Friday!

Tony cooked Chinese Food: Kung Pao Chicken, Rice, Lo-Mein Noodles, and stir fry veggies for me. Yum! After dinner, we watched No Country for Old Men. It was creepy.

New Shoes

Here is a picture of my new work shoes. They are very comfortable!!

Jackson

Just got home from training in Jackson, Mississippi. Groups of on-premise (restaurant) sales people were there from New Orleans, Shreveport, Alexandria, & Jackson (of course).

Woke up to get ready at 4 AM and drove to Hammond to meet everyone to carpool at 6 AM.

We got to the plant in Jackson around 8:30 AM after stopping for McDonalds coffee and breakfast. Training started at 9 AM.

Here is everyone getting ready for training in the meeting room.

This is the table I sat with for the training. From left to right: Calvin, Angie, Robert Bollotte, and Tricia. Calvin is the salesman for East New Orleans and Gentilly. He was once shot in the leg when selling in his area. Angie is my friend who took Tony and I to the Zephyrs baseball game. Robert Bollotte is my new friend who has worked for Coca Cola since 1982! I was just a bean in my mom's belly! He knows alot about working with schools. And Tricia, my coach!

This is Prospecting Monopoly. A game to check our understanding of how to find new customers and switch customers from Pepsi to Coke. Unfortunately, we ran out of time and didn't get to play the game.

New Shoes

From his new job at Academy, Tony gets a discount! So today after work we went and bought tennis shoes. Tony needed some for work, and I got some too because I haven't gotten any in a few years. I LOOOOVE them!!! They are Adidas and so comfortable. Is it wrong to wear them with my black dress pants to work?