Post #785202 by Prikli Pear on Tue, Mar 20, 2018 7:37 PM

Well, Hamo, the truth is that Mr. Tiki hasn't gotten up to all that much in Texas. Last week was spring break for us, and we went to visit friends in Louisiana. Mr. Tiki didn't want to hang around the house all by his lonesome, so we took him along. Naturally, we wanted to show him the sights, so in Beaumont we stopped and let him take in the grandeur of the World's Largest Operating Fire Hydrant.

Here's another shot for perspective. Mr. Tiki was suitably impressed.

Next up was the swamp tour!

Mr. Tiki saw lots of murky water, swamp shacks, birds, raccoons addicted to marshmallows (seriously--that stuff's like crack to them), crawfish and the like. He wasn't sure what to make of it all.

Mr. Tiki did make a new friend.

Then it was off to the French Quarter. Mr. Tiki insisted we go into the Dr. Seuss gallery. Mr. Tiki argued that Seuss' "The Abduction of the Sabine Women" was a modern masterpiece, a subversive commentary on masculinity and codified paradigms of western civilization. One person argued that it wasn't so much subversive as it was transgressive, and Mr. Tiki wanted to fight.

The next day we too Mr. Tiki to one of the St. Patrick's Day parades. Mr. Tiki said, and I quote, "What the hell is this?"

After a suitable amount of green beer, though, he got into the spirit!