Our chow-mix Shadow, who is 12, sets out Saturday with LBD and LBL for a Big Puppy Adventure. A BPA is an afternoon trip to the beach or somewhere she hasn’t been before for the purpose of seeing more of the world. On this day we were heading down to the River Parishes (St. John the Baptist Parish, St. James Parish and St. Charles Parish) to watch the construction of traditional bonfire structures on the Mississippi River levee.