Shadows on the Teche is a plantation home in New Iberia where the Weeks family lived for generations. We stopped in the tour office nearby to visit with the director while doing a little genealogy research. We did not tour the house but it is in a lovely historical section of town with many old homes. I did enjoy a walk through the neighborhood and the wifi at the library in the next block.
Back in Eunice we stopped at the crawfish market and watched some folks make crawfish traps. We just needed something a little tacky for the yard. We even found mesh bags there to use in our kayaks to comply with the Arkansas law! We went into town and listened to the band that was performing in the street. Lots of street dancing going on!
We stumbled across a new rv park on the outskirts of town - Lakeview Park & Beach - and when we went to investigate were invited to stay as is the cajun way. They had a band playing and had started a boucherie earlier in the day. One guy was cooking a large pot of cracklins. He even pointed out the pig's ear!
This fellow was stirring and keeping an eye on the backbone stew, with one hand of course.
It was quite interesting to watch them stuff the boudin. One tourist commented that she heard they no longer use intestines for the casing but the cajun replied, "yeah, we do." 
In the old barn a cajun band was playing traditional cajun music while some danced as is always the way.
The rest of the day was spent ten miles north in Mamou people watching and listening to the bands around town. Things were getting lively on the eve of Mardi Gras.
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