More pictures from our mini road trip East to Louisiana!  The last plantation we toured was Destrehan Plantation. Here we started the tour watching an old school video where the plantation talked about itself in the 3rd person.  About 10 minutes into this video we started to crack up.  It was hilarious.  After the video we watched a live demonstration of how they made bousillage – a mixture of clay and moss for the insulation in the walls.

We picked up sugar cane at the gift shop and I got excited to see a kitty.  As it turned out the ladies at Destrehan once had a white cat named Sugar.  Sugar eventually disappeared and another white cat showed up, so they had good humor and named her Splenda or “their Sugar substitute.”  She was such a sweet kitty and I got to pet her (since I missed my kitties so much I was quite excited… though Brandon, did he miss the kitties as much?  I say not so much. ha ha!!)

Splenda, your Sugar substitute.

Spanish Moss.  Love this stuff.  Did you know it is actually hundreds of individual little plants that grow and get nutrients from the moisture in the air?  It does not hurt the trees.  They used Spanish Moss in all kinds of stuff:  insulation for walls, upholstery, beds.

A view of the bousiallage in the interior walls…

A view into the attic, to show you the original Cedar posts used to build this plantation.