Elvis Loves Crawfish!

Even Elvis loves crawfish!  Enjoy!

This is from the movie King Creole

Are Ya' Gettin' Ready?

The crawfish are comin'!  Are ya' gettin' ready?

Countdown: 29 days

Bayou....

BAYOU  /Buy-you/ n. a French name for slow moving river.

Countdown to the Boil: 37 Days

The Crawfish Crawl

The countdown has begun.....

46 DAYS until the Crawfish Boil!



Washington Facts

Since we are having our Crawfish Boil in Washington state, I thought you would enjoy some fun facts about Washington too.....

• The state of Washington is the only state to be named after a United States president.
• Seattle is home to the first revolving restaurant, 1961.
• Washington state produces more apples than any other state in the union.
• The highest point in Washington is Mount Rainier. It was named after Peter Rainier, a British soldier who fought against the Americans in the Revolutionary War.
• The oldest operating gas station in the United States is in Zillah.
• Washington's state insect is the Green Darner Dragonfly.
• The world's first soft-serve ice cream machine was located in an Olympia Dairy Queen.
• During the Great Depression, a series of hydroelectric dams were constructed along the Columbia river as part of a project to increase the production of electricity. This culminated in 1941 with the completion of the Grand Coulee Dam, the largest dam in the United States
• Popular games Pictionary, Pickle-ball, and Cranium were all invented in Washington.
• Seattle was the first city in the US to play a Beatles song on the radio.
• Seattle was the first American city to put police on bicycles.

Louisana Facts

• Louisiana was named in honor of King Louis XIV.
• Louisiana is the only state in the union that does not have counties. Its political subdivisions are called parishes.
• Metairie is home to the longest bridge over water in the world, the Lake Pontchartrain causeway. The causeway connects Metairie with St. Tammany Parish on the North Shore. The causeway is 24 miles long.
• In Louisiana, biting someone with your natural teeth is considered a simple assault, but biting someone with your false teeth is considered an aggravated assault.
• The Catahoula Leopard Dog, often called the Catahoula Hound, is the official state dog.
• Louisiana has the tallest state capitol building in the United States; the building is 450 feet tall with 34 floors.
• The Magnolia is the state flower.
• The state crustacean is the Crawfish.
• The first opera performed in America was in 1796 in New Orleans.
• Louisiana is America's second largest producer of natural gas. It supplies one-third of the total U.S. production.
• Louisiana is the largest producer of oysters in the United States.
• Louisiana leads the nation in the production of crawfish with approximately 100 million pounds of crawfish per year.

 

What 'cha Wearin'?

What ya' gonna wear to the boil?

Break out yer fancy suspenders 'cause we're gonna party y'all!

A Look Back....

Here's a peek at last year's crawfish boil.  Yummy!