BAY ST LOUIS

today was laundry day so that is what we did this morning now we have clean clothes for a few days...

then off we went to see some of the sights of bay st louis..first we stopped at the visitors center and talked to a couple of women one from syracuse who goes back to vist when ever there is a wedding or a funeral...she lived in the area that i used to live with while i worked at st joe's before larry...so we had alot to talk about even syracuse basketball..small world ..they then sent us to go look at the old train station which we did..and again talked to a very interesting women and the recovery of the coast and all that has happened to the area in all these years...

after which we headed to the police station i forgot to mention we stopped to look at some birds and lar noticed something on the ground and checked it out..a lady purse so we dropped that off at the station..hope they find the owner...

the lady at the train station told us a bout some angels that were carved on a vacant lot where the building had been a B&B till katrina..the water came up to way over the second floor and a couple jumped on a floating roof and others hung on to a tree all survived and there was a tree still standing on the property so they had some angels carved into it...

off to lunch for a shrimp po-boy..again on the water and we heard the story of recovery of it and the hostess of the place..how gratefull she was/is for all the volunteers who came down...one very special thing she remembers is getting a package of famous amos cookies and what a treasure they were...

when we came down in january right after katrina and volunteered out of the methodist church and was told if people want to talk let them so we did today..and heard lots of interesting things that had happened ...most are still very thankfull for all the volunteers that came from all ove rthe USA to help in one way or another,,lar and i are still so much surprised how much this is on the front burner for most of them...