Neighborhoods and Activities in Baton Rouge

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There's still 2 days left as Hot Air Balloons Rise Over Baton Rouge Louisiana in the Annual Pennington Balloon Championships!  You don't want to miss them this year!

THOSE MAGNIFICANT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES!!  That title from a famous slapstick movie reminds me to what links man goes to conquer space and the skies.  One of my favorite parts of the balloon festival is the guest appearance of the Airborne Parachute Demonstration Team.  Have you ever wondered how they do it?  Parachute out from helpcopters and planes so high up we can't even see them on the ground and then they land on a little target a foot wide on the field?  Well its' high tech, folks.  My son served in infantry airboren in the Army and it's amazing what they do.  They make it look so easy.  Here is a video clip of what it's like up there as a team lands inside a football stadium:

And the festival is for all ages.  My grandsons love the Children's Village each year:

There are lots of inflatables.  Also there are farm animals for the children to see and pet.  And lots of games that vary each year like water balloons.  Between balloon flights the kids don't have to just stand around waiting!

And the highlight about 9:30pm is the Fireworks display.  So come join the fun at the Annual Pennington Balloon Championship 2011

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The U.S. Women's team has excited groups around the United States with the sport of soccer.  You may want to check out local opportunities to give your children and grandchildren the opportunity to try out the sport of soccer.  But they are too young, they are just toddlers!  That's just the right time to expose them to different opportunities!

Now is the time to get involved and find a fall or winter league and let the fun begin!  Baton Rouge Soccer Association has lots of programs including a fun Christmas camp.

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Try BREC tennis activites in Baton Rouge, LA, for kids on Easter Break

Are you 2 days into Easter break and your children are bored already?  Try finishing the last 3 days at Highland Road tennis center.  Worried that preschoolers are too young?  No worry.  They specialize in young students who have never picked up a racquet before.

And if you're students are more experienced, there are more challenging competitions too.  BREC has lessons at HIghlnad Road and City Park.  And the YMCA at Paula G. Manship has programs there as well..

So go tomorrow and finish the week with fun, healty excercise!

BREC schdule

YMCA schedule

Baton Rouge is alive and growing.  This is just one of the many activities for residents to enjoy.  The great weather is conducive to outdoor entertainment.  It's easy to get to.  Next to the river you can walk to other attractions like the USS Kid or Science Museum.

It's time to bake that Easter Bunny Cake for this weekend.  My boys loved it when they were growing up!  This year I'm going yellow cake with chocolate icing.  You can use any compination of cake and icing that your family loves:

I'm going to continue the tradition for my 2 grandsons this year, ages 4 and 5.  After the egg hunt, a party with bunny cake

Ingredients for cake as shown in picture:

1 pkg. White Cake Mix

1 can Ready to Spread Vanilla Frosting

14 oz coconut

Food coloring

Chocolate chips

Jelly beans & red string licorice

Ingredients for Chocolate cake variation  (You can change this to suite your family tastes, for example use german chocolate mix and frosting, etc.; here is plain chocolate):

1 pkg. White or Dutch chocolate cake mix

1 can Ready to Spread Chocolate Frosting

14 oz coconut and food coloring(this can be left off)

Real White chocolate chips

Jelly Beans and red string licorice

1.  Prepare and bake cake in two 8 or 9 in. round cake pans as directed on package.  Cool Completely.  2.  Cut cake as shown in diagram  3.  Frost sides of each cake piece.  Assemble pieces as shown in diagrams on a cookie sheet, large tray, or 18x15 in cardboard covered with aluminimum foil.  Frost top of cake.  4.  (You can leave coconut off if desired) (If so you can leave out steps 5 and 8) Sprinkle about 2 2/3 cups coconut evenly over top and sdes of cake, gently pressing coconut onto sides.  5.  Tint coconut in small bowl toss 3/4 cup coconut with 2 to 3 drops red food coloring until evenly colored.  Repeat with 1/1/4 cups coconut and 2 to 3 drops green food coloring.  6.  Sprinkle pink coconut over ears and bow tie.  outline with chocolate chips.  7.  Decorate bunny face as shown in photo.  8.  Sprinle green coconut evenly around cake.

The Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra is having a spicial event, April 28th, "One Perfect Night, Two Perfect Voices' featuring Denyce Graves and Salvatore Licitra.

The Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra is thrilled to present the 11th Irene W. and C. B. Pennington Foundation Great Performers in Concert Series performance - "Two Perfect Voices - One Perfect Night," a brilliant evening of popular operatic favorites, April 28, 2011. Opera superstars, mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves and tenor Salvatore Licitra join the BRSO in their first ever joint concert appearance

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Not familiar with Denyce Graves?  Anyone who is a friend of Elmo and the Sesame Street gang must be a winner!

And the moving passion of Salvatore Licitra's performances will touch your heart.  Here's a preview of his performance on the soundtrack of The Man Who Cried, Tribute to Salvador Dali.

So join the Symphony this Thursday for "One Perfect Night.  Two Perfect Voices".

One of the most unique Baton Rouge Area Homes is haunted, or so some say.  It dates to 1796 and is in St. Francis-ville, just north of Baton Rouge.  It is an antebellum home on the National Registry of Homes, named The Myrtles Plantation.

I visited and stayed the night, but didn't get visited by ghosts as some do.  It has 11 bed and breakfast rooms and an elegant restaurant, The carriage house, that serves gourmet meals.  Of course the main attraction is the ghost tour at night unless a friendly ghost happens to visit your room during the night.  The ghost of "Chloe, harmlessly hangs d sitting on the roof or standing on the veranda.  She's quite a shy ghost though and disappears if approached too closely.  Chloe was a slave girl and mistress of one of the plantation owners.  She was jealous and controlling. Chloe accidently poisoned his children and wife in a scheme to gain the master's good will, but was hanged from one of the trees on the plantation instead.  The plantation is supposedly the home of at leat 12 ghosts, making it one of America's Most Haunted Homes.  It is reported that 10 murders occurred in the house, but records only indicate the murder of one.

It is a pleasant drive thru beautiful hill country to arrive at St.Francisville.  So be sure and stay the night and meet some friendly ghosts.

Guys and dolls Musical is now on Center Stage at Baton Rouge little Theatre?Did you miss Guys and Dolls on Broadway?  Just don't have time to fly to New York to catch the show?  Well, you have a chance to experience this delightful musical adventure right in Baton Rouge.

Playing in march at the Baton Rouge Little Theatre, it iw quite a show! 

Here's a clip from the Broadway opening that gives a little history and will put you in the mood for this great play: