The Cajun Invasion
/Our first clue should have been when our latest guest’s preference sheet said the following “ we have 6 kids between the two couples (whom we are foisting on the grandparents for the week!) so we want to kick back a few drinks and act we’re 20 again..” This coupled with the fact that they are all from New Orleans should have prepared us…..imagine our surprise when Ronnie, the “Ragin Cajun”, decided to leap off the transom onto the unsuspecting Tarpons gathered at our underwater LED lights getting their nightly lumen fix…I’m sure numerous Federal Endangered Species laws were broken in his vain attempt to catch one of these 5 foot beasts with his bare hands! He did manage to to grab a few minnows on each attempt but he kindly set them free instead of eating them whole which we were fully expecting this wild man to do!
At one point the party degenerated to the point where he and his best bud Chad Durbin, (pitched in two World Series... Google him ) tried to outdo each other in performing truly scary back flips and forward somersaults onto the unsuspecting wildlife gathered under our boat. This included trying to catch fishing bats in mid flight…needless to say the bats had way better reflexes at this point of the evening having missed out on Bonnie’s famous Painkillers of which many were consumed by the human team.
The girls, Crystal and Jeanna wisely turned in early claiming they and been through this movie before and with no emergency room within 100 miles couldn’t bear to watch. The highlight of the evening came when Ronnie conned Admiral Bonnie into handing him her iPhone ,at which point he picked her up and tossed her to the waiting Tarpon…..all good clean fun!
All in all we had a great time with these folks and will remain lifelong friends….they even invited me to visit even though I am a damn Yankee.....Capt.Steve