Happy New Year from Baton Rouge, Louisiana!
We left Livingston the morning after a heavy storm but we did not suffer from it (there were tornadoes and flooding not that far away). We followed the storm to Louisiana where is was mostly just heavy rain.
On both New Year's Eve and New Year's Day we went out for a nice lunch followed by a visit to the Belle Casino. The casinos here are supposed to be gambling boats complete with paddlewheels, but they are permanently moored (I think they had foundations!). To enter we went down a big gang plank past the security checkpoint that included the Homeland Security's warning alert level. There were lifeboats and everything. The stacks of the boat were decorated with attractive crowns.
One of the games has a sheep theme. Unfortunately for the sheep lovers in the audience, the idea is to blow up the sheep with bombs, TNT, canons, and everything else!
Above is a tug pushing a series of barges upriver. And that river is the Mississippi! Barges were going each way.
This is the bridge that carries I-10 over the Mississippi. It made for dramatic silhouettes as the sun goes down in the west.
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