Oil Field Chili Cookoff and ADS

Today we went to look at the second school that we are considering sending Regan to next year. I think we will apply to both, and see what happens. Both schools have things that we like. Episcopal School of Acadiana lower school, ESA, seems to have a really good academic program and philosophy. The lower school is new and housed in one of the Episcopal Churches here and trailors, so the facilities are not great. But I was very impressed with their philosophy and the high school has been around for a long time and has an excellent reputation. At that school Regan would go five days a week. Today we looked at Ascension Day School, ADS. It has been around for a while and has a good reputation. It used to be the feeder school for ESA high school until ESA started their own lower school. Now ADS is building it's own high school. They seem to have a good program also, but it seems that ESA is more focused on academics while ADS is more focused on a well rounded education. At ADS we would have the option of sending her two, three or five days a week next year. Who knew picking a pre-school could be so hard?

We also went to the Oil Field Chili Cookoff today. I brought my camera, but didn't think to bring my camera until we had already left. I love chili, so this was right up my alley. We went last year, but we were leaving for New Orleans that day so we felt rushed. It was nice to go this year and feel relaxed and enjoy tasting different chili's.