ALONG THE I10 TO BATON ROUGE

So we started the day out early heading north on the River Road, known for its antebellum mansions and plantations. But when we got to Evergreen Plantation {the one we were going to tour} we were told that we wouldn't be able to go on the first one as there for 60 high schoolers coming for a school trip. We weren't able to wait until the next one at 11.30 but as we went to turn away the tour guide said that we could go along with the field trip and it would be free as it wouldn't be the normal tour...even better! So we followed along with the 60 teenagers from Baton Rouge and saw the slave cabins and inside of the house.

 

Afterwards we were back on the road onto Baton Rouge with a stop at the Bluebottle swamp and then on to the Louisiana State University campus. We went to see Mike the Tiger - the mascot of the LSU Tigers football team. He's a real tiger and has an enclosure on campus, we then went for a drive down Greek row and saw all of the sorority and fraternity houses {this was my favourite part of the day!}.

 

It was then a final stop at the Louisiana Mall and on to our hotel in Natchez. Tomorrow we're looking around historic Natchez in the morning before heading over to Monroe to visit the Duck Dynasty team!