Day 4 in NOLA

Today we stayed closer to home.

It was clear that our work at the first site was done yesterday, so today we hoped to go over to another work site. In the morning we tried to contact the work coordinator, but couldn't. We'd been given a couple of simple jobs that needed doing at the church, so we did them.

Here are Nick and Beth, the folks from Maine, hanging a door.



Around 1 PM we took a break, having replaced a plywood wall with an exit door in one part of the church complex. We headed off to a drive-in hamburger joint called FROSTOP. Someday maybe they will re-mount the giant mug of root beer!



On the way back we wondered how deep the water had been. We didn't have to wonder long:



Remember, the surge was 2-3 feet deeper.

We then looked for the right interior door for another exit from the gymnasium/theater room in the church. Finally, Nick got a call from the coordinator and decided to pick up the key for tomorrow. I stayed behind, finding and hanging the interior door. The place has about 50 different doors-- from leaded glass doors to plain hollow-core doors, and if there was a system to how they were stored, I couldn't figure it out. But by measuring the location of hinges relative to the top of the door, I found one that fit.

When the other two returned, we decided to take a bus to the French Quarter... we took what would have been the St Charles trolley, but that isn't repaired yet, so it's a city bus.

Nick wanted to go to the Ripley's Believe It Or Not Museum, but it seemed to be not-open (Believe it or not, they said they were open!) So we went across Jackson Square (see first photo) to the Cafe Du Monde



Nick is on a no-sugar, no-flour diet, so he only had 2 1/2 of these beignets. I had the same number, and we then walked down Bourbon St., finding a nice place to eat, Sammy's. Where he had a steak, salad and cheesecake. (I had catfish and then bread pudding.) We had a good time walking back to the bus on Bourbon street... it was pretty dead, but the music was plenty loud.

Well, it was a nice break, and the weather, which started out near freezing in the morning, warmed up to almost 50 degrees. The heat down here is all heat-pump, and that doesn't work well when it gets really cold.

That's it for now.