Well, today is Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday), in English, or as we know it home, Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day.  We had to pass up the shenanigans with all our rowdy friends in Mamou, Louisiana, but we are celebrating by having pancakes for breakfast here in East Texas Whoopie yi a !, maybe this evening, we will wine a bit while playing cards, that will make us feel better!  We are off soon to Huntsville, Texas to see the Texas State Prison Museum, then down to the Padre Island National Seashore on the Gulf. We have had some weird weather, 80 degrees, then below freezing at night, then rain, thunder and lightning, very foggy, but you don't have to shovel any of it!