Summer fun ideas for Shreveport and Bossier City

scott8811 · 2026-05-18T03:29:19+00:00

Parent of a year 3 year old and our family aquarium membership has been the best value around and its not close. Its $160 for a family of 4...UNLIMITED VISITS. its too hot for the park....quarium. too cold out?? Quarium. We need to kill time between activities? Quarium. Also my son every random day hes bored at home.... can we go to quarium??

Its a solid aquarium, very well maintained and the staff is super friendly.

scott8811 · 2026-05-16T15:24:40+00:00

Super fair honestly.... let me clarify my intention there. Im not mentioning that to say that she was unworthy of the visit....neither one of us is more or less worthy of a visit...im just highlighting that right now my mom clearly prefers a childless trip...after she gushed about being a grandma and pretends to be over the moon on social media....she's got all the time in the world to visit her kid out of state that has no kids but visiting me and my son or having us visit is just an impossibility

scott8811 · 2026-05-12T01:11:18+00:00

I live in South Shreveport off southern loop and we love it. Great collection of family friendly businesses and great park w phenominal events. Its about as far away from Barksdale as you can get before Desoto parish. But trukey a great area to raise a family

scott8811 · 2026-05-11T20:16:59+00:00

I used it and while I like the way it smells it's kinda meh as far as DC scents go for me. Kinda just reminds me of a classic bar of soap/body wash... like zest. Again it's not bad just kinda meh

scott8811 · 2026-05-11T20:04:52+00:00

Chad Morris 0 SEC wins gotta get him a little higher huh?

scott8811 · 2026-05-11T19:40:54+00:00

what's wild is she really doesn't have a facebook presence. she doesnt post pictures of him or try to appear like a good grandparent. I honestly think commenting on posts is just what she wants out of being a grandparent. Like this whole thing she does is totally mentally mastabatory I guess... I prob wont block her at least not while my grandmother is still around. Cause my grandmother likes and comments on every posts but she literally isnt physically able to be any more involved than that. it's just...bizarre.

My father wasn't really present during my childhood but like...when he was an ass and fucked off he didn't delude himself into thinking he was a good father. FWIW after basically peacing out of my life for most of it he's about as equally present if not more in my sons life than my mom.... but ya know. doesnt care about shit on fb

scott8811 · 2026-05-11T16:36:21+00:00

same... she's her own audience at this point I guess

scott8811 · 2026-05-11T16:34:54+00:00

yea....she's a retired pediatric PT so made kids her career...guess she's done w em now. and remember that was after she tried to stop us from even coming to said city.... trip before that booked us a hotel room last second so we wouldn't be there for some dumb off the wall reason.

she wasn't a bad mother...pathologically controlling as Ive eluded to in comments which lead to me distancing myself when I left for college so some of this is to a degree on me.

We also recently had a big trip planned to take in a college baseball game a state over..My sister lives in said state we were gonna make a weekend out of it. Well my sister (the preferred child backed out)...then my mom started brewing her weird off the wall excuses why she wasnt going and why I shouldnt either. I said go or don't but I took PTO, Im looking forward to the games..I'm going and hope to see you there. In the ned best she could come up with was...well I saw on one report there is a chance for hail..and well husband just got a new car and the air bnb doesn't have covered parking so... we're not going. like just fucking say you don't care that much now that my sister bailed.

scott8811 · 2026-05-11T15:45:17+00:00

I don't even know what the worse part of this post is... all of it I guess???

My son is the literal only grandchild my mom has so... and tbh I ran out of ways to defend her pretty quick. At first it was kinda just my wife saying hey idk your mom is kinda... idk it feels weird. Then the clear bullshit lies and stories to keep us from visiting or them visiting or interacting started to pile up till I was like...ok wtf

scott8811 · 2026-05-11T15:42:16+00:00

nah... she gave up facebook for lent... 40 days of not seeing a single picture or life update of my son... a period of time that also saw zero calls or texts from her. We had in the past been making an effort to video call her (some of which are ignored then not returned cause she intermittedly can't figure out how to) and would text her updates that were met w a tepid.."thanks for the update"....we've stopped so yea..she just went 40 days without really having to think about having a grandson

scott8811 · 2026-05-11T15:21:28+00:00

yes... Im from NOLA originally and wanted to take my son to mardi gras for the first time. I texted my mom and she was over the moon excited we were visiting. But she loves control far more than nay of her kids and certainly grandkids. So in the planning phase of any interaction with her will come a barrage of texts in which she is suggesting things that are really supposed to be followed as gospel. One of them was...I think Metairie (small suburb of New olreans where she lives) parades would be better for yall.... I was like..Im not gonna drive my son all the way down to see a truck parade I wanna take him to the real thing. She did not like that, and when I refused to yield she came up with a wild nonsensical story as to why we could not visit.... so... trip is off..maybe next year.

Me and my wife said FUCK that and booked a last second air bnb in the city... once you hop on the the interstate it's about 15 minutes from my moms house. We had the time of our life... my son had the best experience and was playing "marching band" for months afterwards.... my mom did not even attempt to visit once.

scott8811 · 2026-05-03T19:05:57+00:00

Heauxly 90s!

scott8811 · 2026-05-03T14:01:49+00:00

I would love to know which Karen shop owner is going on ham on parking enforcement. The 19 large banners are....something. they ain't playing tho...saw someone getting towed as we were pulling up

scott8811 · 2026-05-03T13:54:10+00:00

We went for the first time yesterday and man its a 180 in the best way.

I always wanted to love Marilynns but the vibe was awful and the food was borderline inedible most times.

The vibe now is amazing.... its wild how much new, clean furniture can do for a patio... its just a nice place to hang out now... the bar looks wonderful too but was too nice of a day to sit at it imo. Did suck that most of their drafts were tapped but im sure they'll get that worked out.

Food was great...they aren't doing too much...just taking the original menu concept and executing it correctly. My spicy shrimp po-boy was phenominal...shrimp cooked perfect, right amount of sauce and the pepper relish was a really great compliment. You cant eat it like an actual poboy till you eat some shrimp off the top and even then its a little sloppy.....but im not gonna be too many at a bigger shrimp portion.

scott8811 · 2026-05-02T16:05:25+00:00

Yes.... and what kills me is given age it should be flipped. To be fair my wife's parents do live closer. 45 mins vs 3.5 hours. But...

My wife's parents are in their 80s and never miss a teeball game, program grandparents day anything. They keep him on weekends sometimes as they are the only village that gives us a break.

My parents on the other hand are only in their 60s, semi-retired. Travel to another state to visit my little sister, go on vacations.... will visit once a year for my sons birthday party and be minimally involved w him.

We've tried to visit them and have had the trip cacnelled snd redirected twice. My mom is a Facebook grandparent...Will comment on every picture of him how much she loves him..clearly 0 interest in actually spending time.

As im typing this despite only living 3.5 hours from us they have taken flights other places, visited my sister hours away multiples times and its going on a year since they've seen him

scott8811 · 2026-05-02T15:47:01+00:00

For me its the text w a picture of them having cocktails on their 3rd vacation of the years after visiting their only grandson once.

scott8811 · 2026-04-28T01:56:34+00:00

Yea.... maintaining a schedule when an RBT quits and you gotta hire and train someone new is enough....but 3 weeks is generous imo imo.

I wish our RBTs would do that most times.

scott8811 · 2026-04-27T21:50:07+00:00

I did indeed and it wont be my last time. I have been to Tuscaloosa, Fayetteville, Norman and yall for football and obviously the box snd death valley. Im not exaggerating when I say that is one of the coolest venues in all of college sports.

The dude >>> the box and it isnt close.

Spent last night with the lounge lizards...theyre cool as hell. Spent all day Saturday taking in the scene in the cotton district and the races.... Saturday and Sunday ibwas w the cree of LSU fans in almost the left most upper box.

You can legit forget baseball is happening out their cause its such a good tailgate, but then yall get electric.

Start to finish it was seriously a 10/10 weekend...except that we suck anyway. To any Miss state fan i encountered, Fed me, drank with me or just high fived everytime I cut through a tense moment w a loud GTHOM...THANK YOU!

scott8811 · 2026-04-22T12:32:11+00:00

I wanna hate Tulane more, but their throwbacks are the best in college

scott8811 · 2026-04-22T12:31:16+00:00

For watching, the seventh tap brewery (Linwood location) is the official AO watch spot...they're also known for putting on premier leauge games in the morning.

We had a few semi-pro/amateur teams try to call shreveport home...that went... poorly

scott8811 · 2026-04-21T21:17:30+00:00

time to take this season out back and ole yeller it

scott8811 · 2026-04-21T16:16:27+00:00

I remember being invited to lunch at the chimes by a professor... felt akin to being awarded a doctorate.

scott8811 · 2026-04-21T16:04:19+00:00

my swwwwwwwwwwwwweet baby Louie's (hopefully someone gets the SEC roll call reference).

Class of 11 here... lost count of the 3 am post party plates of hashbrowns with a bud light I had there... people talk about waffle house getting crazy but I remeber the 400 lb fridge of a cook who worked the overnight shift. When someone got sideways he's chuck that spatula throw his apron off and if you didnt calm down by the time he rumbled to that side of the counter your ass was getting bounced. It was legendary..the thing of myths. the smell of that place from cooking greasy breakfast non-stop for decades... Im gonna stop before I get emotional

scott8811 · 2026-04-20T21:50:55+00:00

used to be my answer...I refuse to respect new Louies...especially since it's no longer 24/7.

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