The longest day EVER!

We woke up again bright and early! This is getting to be a pattern for me... We were starting to make our way back thru Layfette and oninto Baton Rouge the capital of Louisianna. Pepa was so excited. Shelley was not so much. She was feeling pretty badly and wasnt in the best of spirits. She keeps saying that she is home stick and misses Mema crying staring out the window of the car. I feel so bad for her. On the drive over to Baton Rouge she was very uneasy. I tried to keep her mind occupied by talking to her but it was doing no good. We got to the capital and walked around for a bit and left. Pepa really wanted to see it and take some pictures but he is still not feeling good at all. I felt so sorry for him. :(
We made our next stop at the Navy battle ship called the KIDD2. He made us walk thru the museum and thru the ship. Even though he felt like crap he was like a kid in a candy store. He really has some good memories of the Navy.
 We left there shortly and on to his old doorm area at LSU. He Wanted me to see where he went to school and drive around all of the old coffee shops he used to hang out at. Things have changed so much i dont think that he was ready to see that they had been torn down and rebuilt. He had been gone for so long and for some reason he expects things to be exactly the same. I told him that nothing ever stays the same, but he can still treasure the memories that he has of the old days. He didnt like that answer much.
Exausted and tired out we still had to make our way to New Orleans by dark two and a half hours away. We arrived at the hotel around 7pm tired and ready to lay down after a long day. Little did we know there was a tropical storm about to enter New Orleans and all of the electricity was out. We had to just sit and wait.  Shelley was screaming at the voices that she hears in her head it was time for her medicine and Pepa was so tired he fell asleep in the chair. I went to the bar and ordered a martini to calm my nerves. After waiting for about an hour I woke him up and he went to the front desk to ask about our room reservations and if we could get into the room yet? The front desk clerk ws very rude to Pepa and told him we would just have to wait. Pepa got Pissed off and told him he could go "screw himself" we were leaving. Those were his exact words.
Back into the car we went searching at 8pm at night for a hotel room in the summer time in New Orleans. I thought i might cry. Uncle Billy called and begged us to come back to the hotel where we were originally booked that everything was fine. Stubborn Ass Pepa Refused. Uncle Billy finially talked Pepa into another hotel across the highway where we checked in and are now staying. We didnt have dinner but no one really cared we were pooped! Hopefully tomorrow will be better. Please Jesus make tomorrow better!