Spring Break 2016

For the first time since me and Jed's college experience we had a spring break. Because I still had to work, I didn't have the whole week off but we were still able to make the most of the time that we had. In order to fit with a conference that the students were encouraged to go to, spring break was the last week of February so even going to beach would be a little cold. Luckily for us our favorite band, Mute Math, was coming to Baton Rouge the very first day of spring break. We decided to make a trip of it and visit some places we had never been to. Our trip started with our 6 hour trek to Baton Rouge Louisiana. This was both Jed and I's first time in Louisiana. My cousins also happen to live in Baton Rouge so we were able to stay with them. So on Monday we drove down to catch the concert that night. It was really rainy and extremely humid. It was really cool driving through the bayou and we saw some unique landscape that both Jed nor I had ever seen before. There was a couple times I thought that if our car broke down we would either die by the mouth of gators or the hand of swamp people.

The concert was absolutely amazing. The band Nothing But Thieves opened for them and they were the best opening band we had ever seen. The lead singer had a really great voice. Mute Math was so good. By far the best concert I had been to and Jed said it tied with the last time he saw Mute Math. They almost played all of our favorite songs and like always, put on an incredible show.

The next morning we were on our way to Orange Beach Alabama to have some beach time. Before we left though we stopped by Cajun Town and had some beignets. They were incredible! We tried really hard to eat like locals on our trip. The night before we went to the original Raising Canes which started right by the LSU campus. The concert was right next door. The drive to Orange Beach was breath taking. We basically drove along the Gulf the whole time. It was incredible how sometimes we had the ocean on either side of your car for miles at a time. We got close to New Orleans and surprisingly still saw aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. We also drove through Mobile Alabama which was such a cool city!

We got to our hotel mid day and I was excited because it was right on the beach. Because it was off season we got a killer deal for what would normally be a very expensive hotel. It was really windy and cold so we just walked the beach that day. It was still so cool. There were so many shells and it was so different from the west coast beaches that we were used to. The water was still warmer than when we went to California last May. That night a crazy storm came in and it was raining like crazy. The lightening on the ocean was incredible. Then we got a call from the front desk. The front desk very happily told us that a tornado was headed our way and that we needed to head to the second floor. When Jed hung up he just was like "well that was a strange call." So down we went, us and all he snow birds. We were the youngest there by about 50 years. All of us just hanging out on the second floor, floor. Then the old people started singing "On top of old smokey," and Jed and I were laughing so hard. The tornado went overhead but never touched down and back we went to our room.

The next day was very cold and so we decided to go to Pensacola Florida to the Navy Flight Museum. So this trip alone I got three new states! Jed got two. The museum was really cool and we saw some really cool planes. We decided to do the flight simulator and it was so fun. We made ourselves sick doing loop d loops. I was laughing my head off not realizing the walls were not sound proof and everyone could here me. But it was great.

That night we wanted to get fish and so we went to a fancy fish restaurant. In all honestly we didn't think it was going to be a fancy/expensive restaurant as it was but we were there and it was delicious all the same.

After a fun filled three days it was time to go back so I could go to work. On the way home we saw the damage of a tornado and that really spooked me. The trees were tipped over and splintered like toothpicks. I don't think tornado's had been real to me until then.

We had a really great spring break. There was more driving than we thought but it was all worth it.