You Caught Me With A Sausage In My Mouth...

was a quote from Bo, the MC, at this year's Natchez Powwow It was a nice dance on a warm and sunny Saturday and Sunday. Normal powwow antics ensued. However, there were some slightly extraneous events to note on Saturday:

• Late night run to Shoney's is not possible because you discover 11:55 is too late to enter the restaurant, but not too late to go to Taco Bell. (Shoney's hours go until 11:30)
  
• If you're Mexican and you try to order food at Taco Bell in Spanish, the African American cashier just looks at you funny.
  
• If I offer you a soft taco that I didn't eat, and you reply that you were really in the mood for a burrito, I'll promptly re-roll the food item and offer it to you again, since all Mexican food is really the same.
  
• I still think Slot Machines are dumb. I don't understand the enjoyment of pressing a button and watching numbers roll by, only to find out I didn't win anything. Would someone please explain the enjoyment of trying to beat a RNG?
  
• So, instead of thinking I was gambling, I prefer to think I drank a $10 Bud light, and the ratio of my drinking was in direct correlation to the rate at which the credits of the aforementioned slot machine dwindled.
  
• BlackJack is an interesting game to watch. I'm probably too cheap to play at $10 a hand, but I can watch other people play while I attempt to apply the MIT BlackJack Team's methodology of counting cards. With the 3 decks in play, I was able to determine the dealer would bust on the last hand before the re-shuffle, only to realize the re-shuffle changes the count. :-/
  

Sunday concluded with CrawFish done Mississippi style at the Borum house. This was a southern plantation style home on 14 acres that had some unique history about it. As I'm not a history buff, I forget all the history. Ask Val, she's good with that history stuff. I did try the crawfish, and I realize that I do not like most seafood. Especially seafood that requires you to eat it with your fingers. I much more prefer to eat meat that came from an animal with hoofs, and use utensils.






Some other memorable quotes and antics:

• Cheerleader Beer: Jeff
  
• Ring the bell, that was funny: Chris
  
• Visit the Houmas House. It's down this street a ways, you turn at this grocery store, go a little further. (Great Directions from a southerner): Lance
  
• Warfighter Interface Division? That's impressive: My Generation of Hugebecks
  
• How to eat a frog: Mark
  
• "Beignet, This is Frybread!!!" (Mark) "I know, add some meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomato and you have a Navajo Taco" (Me)
  

Stay tuned for more updates, and be sure to check out the pictures on flikr. Off to watch Big Brother now. :-)