Lafitte, LA

It's Friday, 5/25, around 3:30Pm and we anchored at Lafitte about 2 hours ago. We've already taken the dinghy into the Fleming Canal Store where it looks like you could buy just about anything you needed. We needed chips and beer. Diesel goes for $2.33 cash/$2.43 credit card, Chuck. It's just off the ICW to the right at MM15. There is a huge airboat/swamp boat business here for folks that are shuttled over from New Orleans, about $65./person to run through the bayou. We're planning to leave tomorrow AM early as we have a high stress day ahead of us. We have to go through the Harvey Locks which will entail actually tying up to a rising bollard on the west side of N.O. and a sinking bollard on the east side, something we've yet to accomplish. They say allow 4-5 hours for each lock but we hope that's the extreme, normal time is about 2 hours, but it is Memorial Day Weekend???
All the Fletcher clan will be gathered in Lexington, KY tomorrow for the annual family reunion/Buster birthday party. It'll be the first time we've missed in quite a few years and we're a bit homesick about that. But we hope to hook up with the family over the summer. Where we will be docked on Kentucky Lake is about 3 1/2 hours from Lexington, but between us having a car and some of them traveling to the lake, we hope to visit with them all.
We just found out Danny's daughter Laura is expected our 2nd granddaughter, to be born around Thanksgiving. That arrival will pretty much dictate our departure out of the lake area, as we hope to be near FWB for the birth. Our son in law, Ray, has promised to cook us Thanksgiving dinnner and we plan to take him up on it. I don't think they grow turkeys small enough to fit in my oven.
The rest of the group, again back to 2 other boats as a third recently dropped out, is due to leave Corpus Christi in one week. I can remember where they're at vividly. The last week before leaving the house was one I'd like to forget, but will forever be stamped on my mind as one of the most stressful times ever experienced. Hang in there guys, it's worth it. They will join us at Kentucky Lake where we'll be hiding out from what looks like a predicted active hurricane season. Hope the house will be all right.
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