Day 36 Grayton to Rayne, Louisiana

Started the 400 mile drive to Rayne at six o'clock in the morning. It rained all the way except on the way through Mobile, Alabama it snowed. The snow doesn't seem to affect the people down here since they continued to drive seventy on the interstate. Fortunately it stopped raining just before we arrived. Rayne's a small town and calls itself "The Frog Capitol of the World". I'll wait until tomorrow to ask someone why. We checked in and Fred told us to meet them at the City Bar in Maurice, which we did. A dozen people showed up and we had a few beers before heading up the road to Jeff and Marisa's house for their weekend warm-up. The party started around four and there were about 50 people there at any given time, although it was never the same people. They just kept coming and going all night. They served boiled shrimp, oysters on the half shell, "Fried" short ribs, and Boudin (pork and rice sausage). They had one guy boiling shrimp all day, one guy opening oysters all day, and one guy frying short ribs all day. The Boudin was cooked in a big pot and kept warm. Boudin can be very good or horrible. Fortunately this was the former. Five of the local women treated us to their annual Beauty Parlor Skit done in their best Cajun accents and dress...hilarious.I don't know how late we stayed, but we drove back to the hotel with Fred, Mica, their daughter Hillary, and her fiance Jason (both from Colorado). We were all in good spirits and luckily Jason was able to drive.