We've Arrived!

We've had a couple long days on the road, but we've finally arrived at Aurora United Methodist Church in New Orleans and are getting settled in! We ended up pulling out from St. Paul about 7:15 Friday night and spend a grueling 16 hours straight on the bus, pulling into Memphis about 11 am on Saturday morning.

Saturday was our day to be tourists, and we listened to some music at the Rock-n-Soul Museum, ate lunch and did a little shopping on Beale Street, spent some time at Graceland and ended up at our favorite BBQ place (a local restaurant we stumbled upon during last year's spring break Katrina trip), where we ate some awesome BBQ ribs, sandwiches, and turkey legs. We were all pretty tired out by that point in time, so we headed to the suburbs to Collierville Presbyterian Church, where an amazing group of people welcomed us to their church and showed us lots of southern hospitality!

After spending the night in the church and convincing a local YMCA to open up to let us shower (we were all pretty smelly by this point in time) we went to church with our new friends at CPC and then hit the road again. Supper was at Sonic, a drive-in restaurant (with the BEST cherry limeades) that many of us Midwesterners had never experienced before. We finally pulled into New Orleans about 9:15 pm and it never felt better to reach our final destination!

Today is our first day on the job site, so check back soon for more details about what our work teams are doing and hopefully even some pictures to prove we are actually working! For now, you can check out the pics below of some of our adventures on the road.

(posted by Rebecca on Monday, March 12, 2007)