I knew I’d be in for a great weekend when within 10 minutes of getting to Kaplan, I jumped in a 4-wheel drive and went to help get my friend, Danny, out of the mud. His little two-wheel drive truck had gotten "bogged" in the mud in a rice field and I went down with his brother to help pull him out. I say help but what I really mean is I went there to laugh at him and take pictures And take pictures I did!

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I even have a little video of it here. It took awhile for them to get out because the mud was so deep. Tee Tom, Danny’s older brother, had to end up making his way through the rice field and come back up to pull danny forward. Kind of hard to explain but it took some engineering!

After that excitement, Tilly and I were addicted and wanted more. We asked Danny to take us 4-wheeling and he and his friend Cedric took us Saturday and Sunday. We saw some of the most beautiful scenery that I’d seen in Kaplan. I don’t think it can come across properly in pictures but I was totally impressed.

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The white cup you see above was a pina colada daquari purchased through a drive-through daquari shop. People are shocked to hear that we have those. Yep, we’ve got that and drive-through tobacco and boiled crawfish stores.

After a night of partying until sunrise with drive-thru daquaris, we picked up another friend, Niki and headed to a rice field for a little bit of "mud riding" or mudding. This was one of the best parts of the trip! We dropped by Danny’s uncle’s place and interrupted his frog-leg & fish fry to ask if he could take us out in his monster Jeep. He was so sweet and indulged in us!

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The first picture is a "before" shot of the Jeep we are about to go riding in. It was a monster. The second one is of my farming friend Danny on his cell phone. I think it’s cool how farming has mixed with technology. His cell phone seems like nothing when compared to some of the laser guided farming equipment he showed me on the way.

I included the last picture because I felt that while it may be a tad inappropriate, it’s 100% Cajun. Growing up, we’d tinkle just about anywhere. Often we’d stop on back roads and in this case, I went behind some tall grass in a rice field. Talk about fun!

Next, the actual mudding! It was so much fun! Tilly, Niki, Danny’s Uncle D and I got into his massive Jeep and he took us for a wild ride. I didn’t expect to get caked in mud while in the covered backseat but I did. After a few minutes of non-stop laughter and screaming, Uncle D dropped me and Niki off and he went back to two-wheel with Tilly. He didn’t tell Tilly but when you put it in two-wheel drive, the back tires give the truck a bit of a mud shower. Tilly was covered from head to toe by the time she got out!

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