Baby Gators

I drove the whole way from San Antonio to New Orleans today.  It was an easy yet looooong drive.  Towards the end I was starting to get leg cramps from pressing on the gas.  I tried to use cruise control but the hills and traffic made it nearly impossible; it was the strangest thing.

Just before Lafiette, LA we stopped at the Gator Chateau.  We saw a billboard advertising holding a baby alligator; how could we pass that up?!  It's a city funded alligator rescue where anyone can stop by to hold baby alligators for free!  We held one that was about 6 months old and 12 inches long.  Their whole mission is to rescue them, educate people about them and then grown alligators go to a protected refuge; since they have been fed by humans they cannot be released into the wild.  I'm so glad we stopped!