Breakfast was late today, 8am. The group really needed a kick back day.
Rod and I drove 4 youth to see Tulane. One of them is convinced that she wants to go there. On our journey there we drove a route that went by the Superdome. I imagined what it was like for people to walk from downtown to the Superdome. Near there is an overpass and underneath is a tent city homeless community. We heard on some news that many of them are disabled. Our car was quiet every time we drove underneath that overpass. Our return journey was down St. Charles street, which is the Garden District, and beautiful victorian mansions. What a contast!
We then left to drive to the Bayou for our swamp tour. The group broke up into 2 groups of 14 each. Apparently, it is a bit early for big alligators. We saw a 6 foot one. We saw lots of snakes. The tour guide could spot them for afar, and later I learned that they tend to be in the same spot, and that the operators tell each other where they are.
For dinner we drove to South Carrleton Street to Shaggy's. Our group last year, visited Shaggy's when they were just opening, and 2 young women pushed us all week to return to Shaggy's. Because of the financial state, our group this year, visited him on one of his last days. Bittersweet once again. He made a Crawfish Boil for us. 2 big buckets of crawfish, potatoes, and corn cooked with some hot spices. When he served them, he said "Everybody stand up and move whatever you don't want to get damp." He them proceeded to empty the two big buckets onto the center of the 4 tables. You sat and ate crawfish, and left the shells in a big pile in front of you. The higher the pile the better. It was delicious.
We hurried back to walk to Jackson Square for the Graveyard tour. I did not go on this, but one of the pictures of the group was taken that night during the tour.
The group got back about 10:30pm. The youth thought they were going to stay up all night, but we were visiting someone's community and that would not have been possible, for them to be up all night. There was no where at St. Jude's for them to hang out the way they do during our youth group sleepovers. Some of them had to unpack their sleeping bags, since they really thought they were staying up all night.
To bed, only to get up at 3am.
Rod and I drove 4 youth to see Tulane. One of them is convinced that she wants to go there. On our journey there we drove a route that went by the Superdome. I imagined what it was like for people to walk from downtown to the Superdome. Near there is an overpass and underneath is a tent city homeless community. We heard on some news that many of them are disabled. Our car was quiet every time we drove underneath that overpass. Our return journey was down St. Charles street, which is the Garden District, and beautiful victorian mansions. What a contast!
We then left to drive to the Bayou for our swamp tour. The group broke up into 2 groups of 14 each. Apparently, it is a bit early for big alligators. We saw a 6 foot one. We saw lots of snakes. The tour guide could spot them for afar, and later I learned that they tend to be in the same spot, and that the operators tell each other where they are.
For dinner we drove to South Carrleton Street to Shaggy's. Our group last year, visited Shaggy's when they were just opening, and 2 young women pushed us all week to return to Shaggy's. Because of the financial state, our group this year, visited him on one of his last days. Bittersweet once again. He made a Crawfish Boil for us. 2 big buckets of crawfish, potatoes, and corn cooked with some hot spices. When he served them, he said "Everybody stand up and move whatever you don't want to get damp." He them proceeded to empty the two big buckets onto the center of the 4 tables. You sat and ate crawfish, and left the shells in a big pile in front of you. The higher the pile the better. It was delicious.
We hurried back to walk to Jackson Square for the Graveyard tour. I did not go on this, but one of the pictures of the group was taken that night during the tour.
The group got back about 10:30pm. The youth thought they were going to stay up all night, but we were visiting someone's community and that would not have been possible, for them to be up all night. There was no where at St. Jude's for them to hang out the way they do during our youth group sleepovers. Some of them had to unpack their sleeping bags, since they really thought they were staying up all night.
To bed, only to get up at 3am.
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