12/31/2025
Off To The Elks We Go!
We are getting ready to go for a rousing evening with family & friends!
Get ready to celebrate the new year in style at our New Year's Eve Carnival! Kick off the evening with a burst of flavors from our cocktails and appetizers, featuring Cajun shrimp, oysters Rockefeller, and wrapped Andouille sausage.
Dive into a mouthwatering dinner with gumbo and your choice of entrées: savor the blackened red fish, indulge in fillet mignon au poivre, delight in stuffed chicken roulade, or enjoy the vegetable étouffée. For dessert, treat yourself to Nawlin's bread pudding drizzled with caramel sauce.
As the night unfolds, enjoy a late-night snack, sip on Coffee du Monde espresso martinis, and raise a glass of champagne to toast the new year. Dance the night away to the lively tunes of The Zydeco Band.
A zydeco band plays Zydeco music, a lively Creole genre from Louisiana featuring accordion, rubboard (frottoir*), bass, drums, and guitar, blending blues and R&B with local traditions, with famous pioneers like Clifton Chenier ("King of Zydeco"), Queen Ida, and modern artists such as Buckwheat Zydeco keeping the dance music alive.
*Did You Know? - The frottoir (zydeco rubboard) was invented around 1946 by Clifton Chenier, the "King of Zydeco," who commissioned welder Willie Landry to create a wearable, vest-like version of the traditional washboard, dispensing with its frame for a more portable percussion instrument played with spoons or bottle openers, integral to Louisiana's vibrant Zydeco sound.
Instead of one LONG table, this year we arranged for two tables of ten so we could talk to one another and during the activity, we will swap seats with one another making sure we all get to talk and wish each other a Happy New Year!
Table One
- (2) Paul & Mary Liles (1 fillet & 1 fish)
- (4) Robin & Bob Duda (2 fillets)
- (6) Jim & Vicky (2 fillets)
- (8) Will & Iris (They specified)
- (10) Ed & Betty (They specified)
Table Two
- (2) Mike Andersen & Bridgette (1 fillet & 1 fish)
- (4) Larry & Sandee (1 fillet & 1 fish)
- (5) Gayle (1 Fish)
- (6) Yolie (1 fillet)
- (8) Bob & Donna Zaitz (They specified)
Mary bought me a present for New Years Eve!
Can you tell what it was???
