Road Trip 2018 - Day Four Baton Rouge, Fisheye Fun

Today we were actually in one place for the day, the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Based on a single day, I have to say I am enjoying the friendly attitude of Louisiana so far. We had hoped to do a number of things only to find out that many were closed on Monday (Booooo). But we were still able to get out and do our photographic adventuring thing. AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, I got to use our brand new 1.8 Fish-eye lens! Woo Hoo!

Traveling as we do involves all kinds of adjustments and flexibility

The Airbnb we were in today had a Keurig coffee maker (hate the bastards) which of course I could not get to function. Plus we had no bread having come in yesterday in a pouring rain and had no stomach for going out to shop.

So breakfast featured pretzels as our bread product

Then it was on to the Mississippi River front where there were all kinds of fun opportunities

 Same view with two different lens

Passing the local planetarium couldn't help but notice their display of the planets

I was drawn to Saturn

Where scientists have found a new feature on the surface that resembles

de-I!

Views of the 'Old State House' we will be visiting tomorrow because it is closed on Mondays!

Captain Spouse!

The 'New' State House

Then it was on to the LSU Rural Living Museum, a pretty cool place with buildings and information about life in the in late 18th and early 19th century. And the opportunity for FISH-EYE GONE WILD!

Really great for interiors

But I digress

Captain Spouse on her 'away mission' trying to communicate with the Outhouse People of Omega Alpha 9

And other stuff

First video using fish-eye

Touring a church

Video of egret on the hunt

We finished up the day at a local place for lunch recommended by the girl at the museum desk, Crawfords Family Restaurant (sorry no website)
Start with some hush puppies

 Wife follows with a plate with fried catfish, shrimp and crab claws
She had Cajun potatoes, half mashed with Cajun flavoring and field peas

I had the catfish smothered with craw fish ettoufee along with fried okra and mustard greens

A great introduction to Louisiana food!