Some graffiti I found in the French Quarter
Currently eating salt water taffy. You can take the girl out of Boston. . .
One of my best friends from school, Lucy, visited at the beginning of this week. As much as I love New Orleans, it felt amazing to see someone from home (well, second home, tied with NOLA). Some shots from the visit:
Lucy in front of the skyline.
View from Lucy's hotel. Hot damn.
Walking the Mississip'.
It was a busy week with Son Servants. They tackled a bunch of grass cutting as well as a week-long drywalling project with amazing enthusiasm and efficiency. One ill-fated group unloaded an ungodly amount of mulch into the church across the street to store it for this week's Lower 9th Ward Beautification Project. We were entertained by a few excellent recorder-players while they did so:
We started the Lower 9th Ward Beautification Campaign this weekend, which involves NENA partnering with the Salvation Army to landscape a bunch of homeowners' yards with small trees and flowers. It turns out there's an enormous Lutheran conference in town-- as in, 37,000 Lutherans are currently in New Orleans-- so we got 40 of them to help us out. Along with Son Servants, that meant we had 80 volunteers for two days, which was absolutely insane. However, largely due to the awesomeness of both groups, we got a LOT done.
I'm still having serious you-can't-stay-in-New-Orleans-forever talks with myself almost daily. I absolutely can't believe that I only have two weeks left here.
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