Avery Island, Louisiana

We visited the TABASCO Pepper Sauce factory today and watched bottles of TABASCO brand Green Pepper Sauce being bottled and labeled. After watching that process, we visited the store where we tasted jalapeno pepper ice cream and all the different varieties of pepper sauces they make. We then had to purchase some of the new varieties...yum...yum. After checking out the pepper sauce, we had to visit their private Jungle Gardens with the alligators, deer, raccoons, armadillos and Snowy Egrets. Just as we finished touring the gardens it started to rain and by the time we got back to Abbeville it was pouring buckets!...with lightning all over the place. It was raining so hard, we had to pull off the road and wait until the rain let up. At one point we had lightning strike an electric poll right next to us....about scared the you know what out of all of us! Marge & John were with us. Tomorrow we travel on east. We plan on stopping around New Orleans and visiting that city. Watch our blog for more pics. LIFE IS GOOD!