AACA Louisiana Region

Lagniappe Chapter, Houma / Thibodaux Area

 

6th Annual Bayou Tour November 14th, 15th, 16th 2008

This tour is open to all antique auto lovers (but, only AACA member cars will be judged)

 

Host Site:  Quality Hotel, 210 South Hollywood Road, Houma, LA. Room Rates are $75.00 plus tax per night. You must make your reservations before October 1st to receive this rate.  For reservations please call 985 868-5851.  Be sure to tell reservations that you’re with the AACA Lagniappe Tour.   Tour Limit is 75 Guest Couples!!

 

Friday:  Registration from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM

 

Friday Early Bird Tour:  All right you Gear Heads!  This is for you.  The first afternoon tour is at the home of that famous drag racing duo, the Teuton Brothers, Jeff and Joe.  We’ll see their shop, hear some stories (maybe a few lies) and then on to the Dynomometer Shop to see the setup and running of a race engine.  Ladies, our wives made sure you aren’t left out - the Daiquiri shop is next door and the Southland Mall is nearby!  Then, off to a tour and visit to the $15 Million Dollar Terrebonne Parish Library.  This place is a must see facility in our Parish.  We will also have a surprise or two for your entertainment.

                                                                                                  

Friday Night Hospitality:  The Quality Hotel will be our host for the Friday evening activities starting at 6:00 PM with the opening of the cash bar.  The Dinner Buffet will include Roast Beef with mushroom gravy, Fried Fish with lemon and tartar, and all the fixin’s.  Just dress casual.  The Band will play good dancing music and some of those good “belly rubbing” tunes.  Come pass a good time, you!!

 

Saturday Morning:  A very nice hot and filling Breakfast Buffet starting at 6:00 AM in the breakfast area near the pool.

 

Saturday Tour:  Explore historic St. Mary Parish with us.  We have a nice, easy-to-drive, back roads tour planned for you.  We start with the newly finished community complex in East St. Mary.  We’ll first visit the Wedell-Williams Memorial Aviation Museum in Patterson.  The Wedell-Williams Aviation Collection focuses on the legacy of Louisiana aviation pioneers Jimmie Wedell and Harry Williams who formed an air service in Patterson in 1928. Both men became nationally prominent during what was known as the Golden Age of Aviation. Their company became one of the best-known manufacturers of racing planes during the 1920s and 1930s.  Although both Wedell and Williams perished in plane crashes, their legacy lives on in the memorabilia and planes on display.  Then follow the group next door to the Patterson Cypress Sawmill Collection that documents the history of the cypress lumber industry in Louisiana. Lumbering became the state's first significant manufacturing industry. As a result, cypress lumber harvested and milled in Louisiana was shipped in mass quantities across the United States.

 

Lunch is served “down the street” at the Atchafalaya Golf Course at Idlewild, voted #1 place to play in Louisiana for 2008 by Golfweek!  We’ll dine “on the veranda” enjoying a delicious meal in a beautiful setting (check out the sweet potato fries!!!).

 

After lunch, we’ll stop in Morgan City to tour the Swamp Gardens and Wildlife Zoo.  This heritage park displays and interprets the Cajun culture, from early beginnings with the Chitimacha Indians to the present.  The zoo includes penned alligators, nutria, black bears and more.  Returning to Houma, you’ll have some time to “wine” down before the evening’s activities.  There is more planned for Saturday either going to Morgan City or on the way back but, let’s just call in some Lagniappe!!

 

Saturday Banquet: The Cash Bar opens at 6:00 PM in the Banquet Room of the Quality Hotel.  The dinner begins at 7:00 PM.  Entertainment and awards ceremony will follow.  Don’t forget to select your entrée below.

 

Sunday Morning:  Have a very nice, hot and filling Breakfast Buffet starting at 6:00 AM at poolside before departing.

 

Please detach Registration Form and mail by it TODAY!!!

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Make Check Payable to: Lagniappe Car Club    Mail to Treasurer:  Linda St. Romain, 311 Maple Ave. Houma, LA 70364

 

Name of Driver______________________________________________________________________________________$69.00

Passengers over 12 yrs old ___________________________________________________________$65.00 ea X_____=    $_______

Children under 12__________________________________________________________________ $45.00 ea X_____=   $_______

Address___________________________________________________________________                Total Due…………..$_______

City__________________________ State ______ Zip Code__________ Phone number_____________________________ 

Car Insurance by________________________ AACA Chapter________________________ How many years?____  Non-Member________

Year of Car_____ Make & Model________________________________________

 

Saturday Banquet Meal - your choice of:               Grilled Airline Chicken Breast ______ or

      Pork Loin with blueberry demy sauce______  (both entrees are served with salad and desert)

Martin St. Romain, President of Lagniappe, the Tour Committee, and the rest of the Lagniappe Crew, welcomes you to our Bayou Tour!!  Call Martin  (985-223-0727) or Gary Labat (985 876-2177) or Fred Duplechin (985 803-0672) if you have any questions.