Life here in the Intermediate Staging Area has been pretty good, considering. The conditions are a bit primitive, but we are allowed to leave pretty much at will and have been able to go to movies, go out to dinner, etc.
A local matriarch has sort of adopted us, and she has been very generous. Yesterday she hosted a buffet for 147 soldiers at the Bistro on the Bayou, a very nice, white3 tablecloth restaurant. A typical dinner there runs about $30, so the buffet could not have been cheap. I didn’t get to go.
I did get to go to St. Rita’s Catholic school for a gumbo lunch yesterday. Gumbo, head cheese (tasted pretty good until I found out what it was), salad, sweet tea; a nice lunch. Afterward, a group of 1st and 2nd graders sang patriotic songs, like God Bless America. Many soldiers, including me, were moved to tears. It was memorable lunch. Alexandria, LA has shown us outstanding hospitality. Great people live here.
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