Monday Night and Tuesday...

Ok, well now that I am home I am going to try and fill in the blanks about the days I missed while I was down there.

Monday night we had 3 visitors, Carolyn Mains and Nancy and Carlos Hernadez. Nancy is the librarian at the Warren Easton high school that I went to earlier that morning. Carlos is a Mechanical Engineer and has done work on the canals. They both joined us for dinner that night. Carlos gave us some history about the city and the canals. Nancy brought the group that visited her at the school some shirts. I got a Warren Easton sweatshirt! How kind of her to do that for us!!

Carolyn talked about Katrina and why the city flooded. She mentioned that different parts of the city flooded for different reasons. She talked extensively about the storm surges. How they affected the marshes and came up the man-made channels which caused flooding within the city. Other sections of the city flooded for different reasons - the levees breaking for one.

After most of the people went to bed, I had a nice conversation with Craig - a teacher at a Quaker Meeting School in Rindge, NH. He explained what the school was - an alternative high school for kids that don't quite fit in or make it in a main-stream high school. Some of them have drug and alcohol problems, some are just socially challenged, or don't quite fit in at a regular high school for some reason. It was interesting to learn about the school. Craig and Elizabeth are in the process of adopting a baby boy. During our conversation I had the prividledge to hold Elijah and feed him. What a cutie - but quite tiny! He was less than a week old!

Tuesday's festivities...

Liz and I (aka "The Bangah Sistahs") put together a set of shelves for the nursery room at the church. After the shelves were put together we emptied and sorted 2 boxes of toys on to the new shelves and existing shelves. Liz installed toliet paper holders in the women's bathroom and the men's room in the Sanctuary building at Good Shepherd. I helped a bit, but there is really just room for one in the stall! I gave moral support and company while she installed them! Well the first on was installed prior to our Home Depot run and with the lack of a set screwdriver - she used a razor blade and other assorted bad things! After our Home Depot run after lunch we had the proper tooling to finish putting in the toliet paper holder and life was wonderful! Liz loved her new "toy"!!

We had lunch with the Craft Guild. It was a Mardi Gras themed lunch with the table decorated with beads and mardi gras themed decorations. They brought us King Cake - which is delicious! After lunch I got some beads from the table - a purple strand with a icon on the end called "The Candy Man", a beautiful set of white, green, and purple strand that is now hanging from my dresser mirror at home, and a bright blue strand that is so long!

Liz and I went on our Home Depot adventure after lunch. The mission - to buy shelving for the laundry room. We only had about 20" clearance between the existing shelves and the door. We also had to pick up shelving for the storage room. While we were there we bought a set of shelves that we hoped would fit under the existing blue shelves in the laundry room (between the wall and the washer/dryer). We also bought this awesome tool boxes! They are smokin' man! There was also the wonderful set screwdriver that Liz loves so much... On our way home from Home Depot I saw 2 small kids playing out in their driveway like it was June. By the way Tuesday was a gorgeous day! Must have been 75 easy!

A tornado hit during Monday night - but me, I slept right through all of the wind and rain! Didn't hit too far from us tho. Another church that workcampers were staying at was hit. They had windows blown in and van windows blown in. No one from their hurt, so that was goood.

So now that we got our shelving we put together the ones for the storage room and loaded them up. The questionable set for the laundry room was put together. However it didn't fit. We tried to think of other places to use them, but couldn't figure think of any. So we took them apart to go back. Then George and Steve came home (well back to the church) and thought that it could be used in the storage room. So... Liz and George put them back together again!

The Good Shepherd congregation cooked us dinner on Tuesday. They made red beans and rice. Yes Julie - I did try it!! Not bad, not sure I'd pick it but I did try it! See I tried lots of new foods this week! :)

Carol and I hung out in "Lappy Land". We converted the Craft room into our laptop land. It was nice to just hang out.

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