Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Day to Day
Each day around 11:30 they would bring us lunch, and that was red beans and rice(gumbo ish) always fruit, cookies etc., sandwiches etc. Plenty of water and candy snacks available to nourish us. First day we worked till 2:30and the 3 of us were on fencing all day. Then at 3:00pm they took us on a tour bus of the hurricane devastation with a native telling us all about it. It was pretty amazing, as you can imagine. We saw all parts of the area including the new levies that are there and some things that army corps put up but with only a 5 year life ??? Go figure?? At 5pm back to hotel, shower and change and taken to dinner at Deanies Seafood restaurant. At 7:30 there was a class on living below sea level.. Marilee and I did not go to that, but stayed in French quarter and walked around, went to the famous cafe de monde and did some shopping..(maybe we were privately having enough of the schedule..so we broke out!!
On Wednesday back to the site at 7:30, it was cold, like 28 degrees..and we started attaching the chain links to all the poles we had put in.. rough work, but we did a great job..the other workers would walk by and comment on the great job..of course what else could they say..but ours were straight and tight..
We were treated on our lunch break to go down the street where there are already musicians living in their houses and a gal and her group Liese played while we ate. The 4 musicians entertained us as a way of thanks..It was cool. we also bought her CD. Finished work at 3pm and back to hotel where we were free to roam and eat where we wanted to.. We were told that there was a great oyster places, ACME’s so we went there and had a dozen each raw oyster and another dozen charbroiled with cheese and garlic..yummy yummy. Did more walking the area, stopping here and there and even made a run into Harrahs for gambling, Marilee wanted to ..well I did also alittle. We were able to call for the hotel bus to pick us up at 10 met another couple of gals from our group and back to hotel.
Thursday we finished our chains and in the afternoon started painting on the high ladders, trim that needed second coat, found that pretty easy by now. That day we only worked until 2pm YEAH... At 3:30 back on bus (after shower and clean up) for a fantastic tour on the architecture of New orleans again by a native and she is an architect. We walked the Garden district..it is a total of 90 blocks, old mansions etc..really very very cool and so interesting. at 6pm we were having dinner at Dragos. Some folks went on to French quarter but we were finally really tired so back to hotel around 9pm.
On Wednesday back to the site at 7:30, it was cold, like 28 degrees..and we started attaching the chain links to all the poles we had put in.. rough work, but we did a great job..the other workers would walk by and comment on the great job..of course what else could they say..but ours were straight and tight..
We were treated on our lunch break to go down the street where there are already musicians living in their houses and a gal and her group Liese played while we ate. The 4 musicians entertained us as a way of thanks..It was cool. we also bought her CD. Finished work at 3pm and back to hotel where we were free to roam and eat where we wanted to.. We were told that there was a great oyster places, ACME’s so we went there and had a dozen each raw oyster and another dozen charbroiled with cheese and garlic..yummy yummy. Did more walking the area, stopping here and there and even made a run into Harrahs for gambling, Marilee wanted to ..well I did also alittle. We were able to call for the hotel bus to pick us up at 10 met another couple of gals from our group and back to hotel.
Thursday we finished our chains and in the afternoon started painting on the high ladders, trim that needed second coat, found that pretty easy by now. That day we only worked until 2pm YEAH... At 3:30 back on bus (after shower and clean up) for a fantastic tour on the architecture of New orleans again by a native and she is an architect. We walked the Garden district..it is a total of 90 blocks, old mansions etc..really very very cool and so interesting. at 6pm we were having dinner at Dragos. Some folks went on to French quarter but we were finally really tired so back to hotel around 9pm.
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