Moving to Louisiana was a culture shock for me. Things are done very differently here in Cajun country. The food is amazing! The weather is tempermental- and it rarely ever snows! When people decorate for Christmas, it's not unusual to see a pirogue (a flat boat) with Santa Clause sitting in it being pulled by alligators.
When my niece was little, she was very adamant about certain things. They way she viewed the world was the way things were in her mind. South East Louisiana sure did play a role in how the world looked.
One day when she was around 3 or 4, she was playing with a friend and she felt the need to enlighten the little girl. "Santa Clause is not real!" she told her. The little girl looked at her in shock! I could only imagine what was going through this little girl's mind. My niece continued, "Santa Clause isn't real. And neither is snow!"
