Click here to view our Picture GalleryPaddle trip- Day 2
This morning Taylor and I woke up early to explore the sugar cane fields. We walked along the dirt road that runs down the middle of the crops. Green sugar cane stalks were on either side of us (they kind of look like bamboo). Taylor taught me how to break a cane piece off and suck on it to taste the sugar! We walked in between the rows of cane stalks to find a ripe stalk for the best taste. It was so much fun!
All of us decided not to paddle today...but instead to drive to the next location in Granny's car. We enjoyed paddling yesterday...but it was also exhausting!
This morning we took the tour of the plantation home. All the furniture and decorations within the house were antiques. I love looking at old things... especially photographs. For a long time I examined the old black and white photographs hanging on the walls. The item in the house that I found most interesting was an old globe from the early 1900s. It was fascinating to look at the old country borders and former nation names. You could see evidence of colonialism and territory changes. I also liked looking at a brick in the outdoor kitchen. When slavery still existed in the U.S., it was often a slave's job to make bricks. Just as an artist signs his work, the slaves would place two fingerprints in the newly made wet brick as a signature. There was a brick in the kitchen that had two finger indents. It was so well preserved that you could still see the swirls in the finger prints. I placed my fingers in the indents for a moment.
Tonight we are camping at a park. There was a big celebration at the park in honor of the paddle trip... a zydeco band (a type of music popular in Louisiana) performed live, there was a buffet of food, and several guest speakers talked on stage (they asked me to speak about One World Youth Project). It was great fun!
After the celebration I walked out to the dock to look down the bayou. If you cup your hands around your face...so all you see is the river water and trees on either side...it could easily look as though you are on the Amazon or even a river in Africa!
Sincerely,
Jessica Rimington
All of us decided not to paddle today...but instead to drive to the next location in Granny's car. We enjoyed paddling yesterday...but it was also exhausting!
This morning we took the tour of the plantation home. All the furniture and decorations within the house were antiques. I love looking at old things... especially photographs. For a long time I examined the old black and white photographs hanging on the walls. The item in the house that I found most interesting was an old globe from the early 1900s. It was fascinating to look at the old country borders and former nation names. You could see evidence of colonialism and territory changes. I also liked looking at a brick in the outdoor kitchen. When slavery still existed in the U.S., it was often a slave's job to make bricks. Just as an artist signs his work, the slaves would place two fingerprints in the newly made wet brick as a signature. There was a brick in the kitchen that had two finger indents. It was so well preserved that you could still see the swirls in the finger prints. I placed my fingers in the indents for a moment.
Tonight we are camping at a park. There was a big celebration at the park in honor of the paddle trip... a zydeco band (a type of music popular in Louisiana) performed live, there was a buffet of food, and several guest speakers talked on stage (they asked me to speak about One World Youth Project). It was great fun!
After the celebration I walked out to the dock to look down the bayou. If you cup your hands around your face...so all you see is the river water and trees on either side...it could easily look as though you are on the Amazon or even a river in Africa!
Sincerely,
Jessica Rimington
