Wandering Browns

The cute tour shack About an hour west of Baton Rouge, off of I-10 is the cute community of Breaux Bridge. Nearby the town is a big lake, swamp and bayou. There are a few different tour companies that run swamp tours from this area, and we chose Champagne's Cajun Swamp tours because they were responsive to my inquiries.  My boys in the boat After a few minutes of waiting around the shack, we were invited into our boat. The tours take place on boats with 12 other people, so the tours are small and the boats needed to be smaller and shallow bottomed to traverse some of the shallow portions of the swamp and boat roads.  Cypress After spending most of our time in marshes by the coast, it was nice to see some swamp that actually looked like the swamp I imagined. The scary trees with Spanish moss hanging down, the still water and algae growing, everything was very serene. Our guide had an awesome accent and a fun sense of humor. He was a pro at navigating through...

I'm really sad that this picture is crooked because Landon is perfectly  One of the main reasons we took a weekend trip to Baton Rouge was to attend the LDS temple there. We try to attend the temple at least one time per month in order to learn, worship, and gain eternal perspective on life that helps us get through the day to day ups and downs everyone goes through. The culminating ordinance in the temple is the sealing of families together for eternity. This means that all of the family relationships we have here on earth will continue on after death into the eternities. There are not words to express how happy I am that I KNOW that I will be with my family forever as long as we all live our lives the way God wants us to. To learn more about temples, click  here . There are some pretty stellar videos succinctly explaining about temples. Baton Rouge temple is a smaller temple, and was built in 2000. Its design is very similar to to the Fresno, California and Kona, ...