Britney Spears took time out of her Maui stay to visit her home state Louisiana for Mardi Gras. Spears surprised a group of four students with a shopping trip and a dinner at Emeril Lagasse’s restaurants.

On a recent morning, the girls sat down to breakfast with City Councilman Jay Batt, thinking they were there to discuss the effects of Katrina. Then Spears walked in, greeted with squeals.

Spears took the girls shopping and to dine at one of Cajun chef Emeril Lagasse’s restaurants for some Southern comfort food, including fried chicken and red beans and rice. There, the conversation turned from shopping to Katrina.

Spears gave the girls fleur-de-lis pins on blue ribbons, and she surprised the school’s dance troupe, the Gatorettes.

[AP]

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