Back in Cajun Country--2011--Day 5

More coaches, a little work and finished up cemetery duty.

It has actually been pretty quite here in Marksville the past couple of days. We've seen the majority of the rally attendees arrive and get set up. Have gone out to eat in the local area a few times. Mainly have just been helping organize things for the official start of the rally on Monday evening. We did go over to the casino this evening for dinner at Roxy's, a 50's style dinner. Had a good chicken fried steak dinner topped off with a great chocolate milk shake.

Since this rally represents the 10th Anniversary of the Monaco America RV Club we are doing some extra things to celebrate. One of those is we are taking pictures of every attendee and will present them with the photo in a special frame that has our logo along with information about the anniversary rally printed on them. Today we started getting the pictures taken and then I spent a couple of hours this evening printing them out. We have 59 motor coaches scheduled here and we got 18 of the photo's done today. This is the one taken of Joanne and I this afternoon. We'll try to get the rest of the photo's taken this Wednesday.

I did get all the cemetery information, from the old cemetery I came across down here, entered into the Find A Grave database. When I first looked up the St John Cemetery in Find A Grave there had only been nine graves entered. Now there are 207 listings for this cemetery along with pictures of each headstone. There are probably another 50 to 60 graves that I could not document because there either was no headstone or the old headstone was so weathered it was unreadable. I just finished uploading the last of the pictures this afternoon.