New Orleans 2012

I'm back!   I spent the last week on our parish Mission Trip.  Twenty-six teens and eleven adults left Mulvane at 7:00 p.m. on the 16th for an overnight bus ride to New Orleans, LA.  We spent the next few days at various work sites with 200+ other campers from Illinois, Wisconsin, and Florida.  Some of us scrapped and painted houses.  Others spent their days hanging sheetrock,  fixing roofs, floors, and walls.  Some had the experience of working at  a day care center or a homeless shelter.  In the process we made new friends, laughed a lot and cried a little. We slept on the floor and showered in outdoor makeshift showers.  We sang.  We danced.  We cheered.  We worshiped our God.  We were reminded that we are children of God, loved beyond our understanding.

Friday we spent the day at the French Quarter.  We ate a beignets and a muffuletta.  I walked on Bourbon Street and toured the St. Louis Cathedral.  We even tasted alligator sausage at the open air market.  We ended our week relaxing aboard a steamboat cruise on the mighty Mississippi River.

Leaving Mulvane

Arriving at Camp

Group 13 Scraping

A Carpenter Commando Training Exercise

Brothers cleaning the cafeteria.

Scarey

Painting

More painting

6 really great kids

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Shake it off

What could be better than a world famous beignet and a coffee.

A street entertainer.

My sight-seeing companions.

Bourbon Street

Sunset on the Mississippi.

I was doubly blessed to share these experiences with my son!

I am most definitely blessed to have the opportunity to attend this Catholic Heart Work Camp. God is good all the time.

Tomorrow.. pictures of the house ....  a lot is happening.