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I only saw bits and pieces because I was trying to watch American Idol too. I am so happy that George made it to the next round!

Anyhoots, the swamp tour had me rolling. The language issue reminded me of meeting my husband's grandfather for the first time. He started off in English but then as time went on he started getting into Creole/Cajun French. I understood some because a few words are similar to Parisian French. However, ol boy would get on a roll with his friends and they would speak so fast that it was hard to keep up. If they would look in my direction, I would just smile and nod. My husband would translate every once in a while but sometimes he didn't know what was going on either.

In my mom's family, the older people spoke French when they didn't want you to know something. They never passed it along like my husband's family did or my dad's. For a time, it was against the law here to speak anything other then English at school. My great grandmother encouraged her kids to speak English at home too. By the time my mom came along, the language was lost.