Dans la Louisiane

We've been in Lafayette for several days now, and we're settling in. We have, of course, loved the food. We've had some excellent Greek and Thai food, but my favorites are probably Poupart's Bakery and Lafayette's. We had the Cajun lunch buffet at Lafayette's, which was outstanding, and I can't wait to have the Sunday brunch there. Going around doing all the new-job things, like setting up email accounts and voice mail, getting faculty IDs and parking passes, and moving into offices has been draining, so I haven't had much energy to blog lately. Hopefully that'll change. For now though, some photographs from the UL campus, mostly of the swamp:

These turtles are SO CUTE. They saw us leaning over the brick wall, and they swam over expecting to be fed, but we didn't have any food on us.

My undergraduate campus had a live lion in a cage, and now I'm a professor at a university with an alligator habitat.