Hi Joe,

Well, I didn't find Celtic-- sorry, I ALWAYS look for that anywhere I'm traveling-- but the wedding was in fact in bayou (Lafayette area--Breaux Bridge)-- and I didn't know it but the bridegroom's family is heavy into Cajun, being an old Cajun family. Not only did we get to experience a crawfish boil at a local park for the rehersal dinner, they set us up in a cabin B & B on a bayou with a complementary Cajun breakfast (your choice of scrambled eggs with homemade sausage or ham OR cracklins--the REAL kind-- boudin--Cajun sausage-- and hog head cheese. (The cabins weren't super fancy but they were inexpensive, the food was great and the people were very hospitable.) Then next day we went to the egret/heron sanctuary on Avery Island and then back for an afternoon wedding in Broussard, complete with a local Cajun band for the reception. Then we went with Larry's family and freinds to a bar in Breaux Bridge and danced all night to another Cajun band. Celtic may be my first love. but this Cajun stuff is highly addictive. I even figured out how to dance to it. And we have an open invite for Mardi Gras in Mamou, and another fest held in Sept. I never thought I'd go to Mardi Gras, but this sounds like a must do--- good Cajun music and food for 5 days straight-- not to mention some of the nicest folks I've ever met.