WE HAVE ARRIVED

Okay folks we're here. Unfortunately we didn't have Internet connection until today.

SUNDAY:

We arrived at the Airport around 3:00 PM our time without incident, picked up our rental vehicles and off to Camp Restore. All of the guys are together in one room shared by a few other people from other groups. The girls however, are in two rooms. We drove Sunday afternoon to downtown New Orleans. We walked around the French Qaurter and ended up at Margaritaville Resturaunt for dinner. Sweet tea, conch fritters and alligator bytes were great. The kids had a great time, spent some money, watched some a street acrobat do a flip over nine people. All seems to be back to normal in the downtown area of N.O.

MONDAY:

Some of us got up early to go for a run. Nathan, James, Sean, Ron and I ran almost 3 miles. A slight issue with Nathan, he has asthima so his run was short. I ended up going back to get him and staying with him until we got back to the camp. He was fine, no worries, just didn't tell us he can only run about a mile before the athsima kicks in. Silly dude!

We went to breakfast, which was pretty good for camp type food. Once we finished we recieevd our assigned houses/families. We made up four teams with two adults on each. Our team has the furthest one to travel to. It takes about an hour and twenty minutes to get to Donaldsonville LA.

TEAM ONE:

Team one is made up of Lisa, Beth, Jim and Martha for the adults and Taylor, John, Brianna, Molly, Alex went to a house close to the camp. Team one was tasked with mudding (good stuff), taped and mudded cracks on a ten foot ceiling. The homeowner's name is Clarence. Taylor was, well, just being Taylor.

TEAM TWO:

Team two is made up of Linda, Marianne, Gary and Mark for the adults and James, Sean, Ron, Nathan, Margaret, Erin and Christie. Our site is far from the camp, about 70 miles. The needs of this particular house is overwhelming. The homeowners are an older couple trying to rebuild their home, living in the kitchen and on small bedroom whilethe rest of the house in in the process of repair. The couple had lived in a FEMA trailer for sometime.

Each team started out by grabbing their tools for the week, making lunchs, and planning their day. We had a pretty good breakfast, lunches are sandwiches but dinner, well, it ain't home cooking. Due to budget constraints it seems Camp Restore has scaled down their food choices to Red Beans and rice, sausage, and a biscuit for Monday and hotdogs and baked beans for Tuesday.



TUESDAY:

TEAM ONE:

Team one were spacklers for the day and according to Taylor, "Beth is the sloppist spackler on the planet." Pictures fgor Tuesday to follow soon.

TEAM TWO:

Team two spackled, painted, primed, tiled, sanded for the day working in several rooms of the house. pictures for Tuesday to follow soon.







TEAM TWO