May 6 - Joe Hall with Mes Amis

We are at Cafe des Amis tonight. Jessi is back in town and wants to try something from the menu besides breakfast. Our table becomes fuller and fuller as the evening progresses. Ken, the Alaskan fiddling poet joins our little party. Chelsea is next - she is heading to Nova Scotia next week to begin the French Immersion program at St. Ann's. Then Marianne & Michel (the Belgians) pull up chairs. The music is average. Joe is a great guy and good musician, but this is an acoustic set and the energy is low. But hey - there's dancing, so no complaints from this quarter!!

Le Cafe is a little lunch spot with fabulous Shrimp Po'boys. We had lunch there yesterday --- look for the little yellow house on Rees St. More home-cookin'. What I love about these little eateries is, when they have cooked and served all the food for the day, they close up shop and go home (or maybe they go dancing!!). Breaux Bridge is no paradise, but there seems to be an absence of money-grubbing, greed among the local merchants and restaurateurs.

Dinner last night with our new Belgian friends reminds me how determined I am to get to Paris this summer, and perhaps to visit them in Brussels. Add LITE to this mix and I know I am leading a charmed Life in Louisiana.