Our last day in New Orleans

Our last morning at Slidell started with lots of rain, and I mean lots! It was absolutely pouring, which made packing up the car interesting. We also hit a pretty bad traffic jam b/c of the rain on I-10. We had to merge from three lanes into one lane, which actually didn't go too poorly considering the amount of traffic. Even though it took us about an hour to get to the house, we still beat the Dartmouth people even though they had left 10 minutes b/f us! What can I say; I'm a fantastic driver. Just ask Jonathan, he'd agree! Haha!

Unfortunately, Ben wasn't going to get there until later in the morning, so we didn't get to play with cement. Also a bummer was the fact that one area of the roof was leaking, so some of our insulation is going to have to be puller down. And that was the section where we had to put up a couple of studs. Boo! But we did get to work on putting drywall in the closet walls. We ended up getting one entire closet done, which isn't bad for 2.5 hours of work, at least we didn't think so! One piece we cut too long so Em and  I were using the cheese grater on it like crazy! Haha! Luckily the cheese grater is a lot of fun and relieves stress. I've decided that I should buy a piece of dry wall and a cheese grater for this summer as a stress reliever. Between that and my side job as a sheep shearer, I should be able to survive CPE at U of L! Hahahaha!

After changing at Raising Cane (some chicken place-I think that's the name of it) where JJ and Em got food and getting some coffee at Starbuck's, we were on our way for our 10 hour drive. Yay! This drive was actually much easier than Sunday's, even though we got home later. JJ sat up front with me for awhile and we had some nice conversations. I can't remember all that we talked about, but it included various theological discussions and overall we had a great time. Other highlights of the trip home included listening to the song "Party at the End of the World" which has a fantastic line which goes "I don't care about the rapture when there's native girls to capture." Hahaha! Then there was the time when we almost ran out of gas around Nashville b/c for miles no gas stations were listed for the exits. Once we got into Kentucky for awhile, I put on my L-ville music CD, which made me really excited to get home.

I'm so glad that I went on this trip! Doing something different, something helpful for a few days was such a nice change of pace and helped me get ready for the rest of this arduous semester. I've been talking it up to people who have asked since I've been back, so hopefully I will be able to get a group to go back again sometime soon!!

On another note, Emily told me about a moviein Lifetime called "Midnight Bayou" so that's what I'm watching right now. It takes place near New Orleans and the main character is setting up a free legal clinic to help people with some of the legal trouble from Katrina, such as insurance companies that will only pay for wind damage and not for water damage, etc. I find it perfect timing since we just came back a couple of days ago! But it's also a ghost story, so I really wish I had someone watching it with me!! Hahaha!