MORNING TREAT

one of the volunteers has taken some courses at the culinary school in hyde park , ny and and what he likes to do is bake bread...so this morning as it is thalast day for the kids he decided to make fresh bignets for breakfast..(like a donut)...so he did and they wer to die for...mmmm good...

LUNCH

it is crawfish season here in lousiana and so guess what we had for lunch today....oh my they were delicious...the affilate bought 2 bags of them there things and someone boiled them up along iwth the sausage--potatoes--corn on the cog and even cabbage...so lunch today was a real treat...this has been one of our better builds that rank up there...

tonight the kids have invited us to come for dinner with them as they have alot of food they want to get rid of before they leave...not that anyhone is hungry i'm sure not...but we will go to be social...

sat is st patricks day so the group is cooking corned beef and cabbage...aqnd then on sunday there is to be a parade that we will go to...

all's great here in the bayou!!!!!!!!

WORK CREWS

at the house site every day we break into crews and go to different housses to work..the original plan was for the kids to split up everyday but they all seem to like the ones they are working with and have asked to stay with their crews...there is the grouting crew working on a kitchen floor...then there is the flooring crew putting down hardwood flooring the floating kind...then of course the painting crew and then one more crew the hoe digging crew that will be only one day and joey got that job...

APPRECIATION DINNER

ok here we are at the dinner...some of the students and of course some of the carre-a-vanners...and a wonderful time was had by all...

tomorrow we understand that we are to have a crawfish boil for lunch...something lar has been looking forward to... several yra ago we did a build in galliano but this one sure is different...

will we come back...i must say it is on the list of places to rfeturn too...

WEDNESDAY DAY 3

TODAY WE SPLIT UP INTO 2 GROUPS SOME OF THE COLLEGE KIDS WENT OFF TO PAINT AN OLD STORAGE WAREHOUSE that habitat is going to used fro something i don't remember what but something...then we had three houses we toook others kids to work on..some did flooring in one house..one did caulking and otheres painted trim work...i was with the paint crew along with mem...

the college kids oly worked a half day as they were going on a swamp tour ..so after lunch they left as a matter of fact we are running out of work and it got hot so we also took the afternoon off...lar and i went to sam's and wal-mart to buy more supplies...

tonight the affilate was having an appreciation dinner and of course we were all invited...we of course wonder did we really want to go but it was decided we did...we of course were very glad we did...we just got a great feeling that we are very muych appreciated for being here...we each were given an lunch bag aliong with another t-shirt a wondcerful dinner nd ev en entertainment...a DJ so we did one dance with some of the kids...just a fun evening...

FIRST DAY IN HOUMA

today was the first day of work here in houma so of course we had ameeting the went over alot of safety issues..about habitat--the history of the affilate here...

we are working with 20 kids from st louis university and they are a good bunch..this morning they were sent over to a warehouse to paint but this afternoon they worked with us older people on 2 houses...one of the houses is a redo...habitat had to do a foreclosure on it...after which is was broken into and trashed...we worked with 2 different home owners ...mary knows which house she is getting but kobi and his wife need to gett n 100 hrs before they can pick out their house..so today was productive and we are exhausted for real...

got up this morning to the clock radio and heard the rosary in french...then they sang the star spangeld banner in french so we know for sure we are in cajun country...we may leave it on the same station to see if tomorrow morning is the same ahhahahaahah..

CROSSING THE MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI

YESTERDAY WAS OUR DAY TO CROSS the mississippi not in baton rouge but on our way to houma....and i was even talking to my sister chris at the time we crossed it so she not only crossed us but she got the full narritave of the crossing...