I guess just the stuff I've seen in movies and on TV. Jazz, beignets, really fancy graveyards. Voodoo and swamps and alligators. And Mardi Gras, but I think we're a little too late for any parades where we can get beads.

[No wonder her mom thought it was evil. It sounds like a place she could easily spend a week or two and just soak everything up. They don't have that kind of time right now, but maybe if they really enjoy it they could always come back on vacation or something.

Now that his hands and mouth are totally unoccupied, she plays with his fingers with one of her hands, while the other reaches up so she can press her hand to his cheek. She guides him in for a kiss, and finds it's really hard to stop smiling.

Their day was really stressful at the mine. But moments like this help ease the upset she had been feeling.]