AB’s Grandma and Grandpa left early Saturday morning, leaving just us young’uns to play on Saturday. We had a pretty great day.

First, we all went to the Shreveport Farmer’s Market. I’d never been before. It was smaller than I expected, but it was still excellent! I bought a handmade necklace, a bottle of blueberry merlot from Landry Vineyards, a jar of muscadine jelly, two handmade soaps from Sundew Herbs (peppermint and white magnolia), and a bottle of specially-blended creole seasoning. I may go back next week and buy some veggies for canning, since we never got our garden in this year. (You may recall that our yard flooded about the time I intended to plant.)

After the Farmer’s Market, we had a fabulous lunch at The Real Pickle. If you’re not local: The Real Pickle is a locally-owned and operated New York style deli that serves a huge variety of delicious sandwiches, homemade chips and sweet potato fries to die for, and - of course - scrumptious homemade pickles. If you are local and have never been there, you really need to check it out. It’s on the corner of Line and Pierremont, in the same shopping center as Superior’s Steakhouse. Anyway…

After lunch, J, Uncle Sam and AB went back home for a nap (which never materialized, as it turns out) and Aunt Lydi and I went to Spa Concepts for mani-pedis, then to DSW Shoes for shoe-sale shopping. Yay for shoe sales! I got these for work:

We met back up with J, Sam and AB for dinner at Posado’s, and then we took AB (against my wishes, but whatever - everyone else wanted to go) to see WALL-E. AB was a good girl in the movie; it was only her second time in a theater. This was especially good as the movie started about the same time as her usual night-night.

Man, were we ever ready for bed by the time we got there!

All in all, we had a good visit with J’s family. It was nice to lay down day-to-day problems and just relax for awhile.

I’ve got more blogging to do - maybe even tonight. So much to catch up on! But for now, it’s a bath and bed for the Dooger.
xo,KJ