Waveland, MS clean up

Delinda and I went to Waveland, Mississippi this weekend with our Church group. There really aren't words to describe how destroyed that city is. It's really very sad. The pictures show just a small portion of how bad it is down there. So much is destroyed... it looks like a war zone. But the people are working hard to recover their lives and move on. I admire their persistence and motivation to keep going when there is so much to pull back together and repair.

I again feel very blessed to have what I have. I'm blessed to have been able to assist in a very small way in comparison to what needs to be done there. I hope that I can get back down there to work some more. There is SO much to do and so many people to help.We got there late on Friday night (Saturday morning rather) and camped... well sort of. We slept in the car, or tried to. Got to work early in the morning. We were the only girls in our group. Yeah, we rocked- that's right.We stayed at this stake center the next night and slept in one of the classrooms on the floor. The building had also been flooded and all the carpet was taken out and about a foot of the wall from the ground up- so we laid our sleeping bags on the cement and tried to get sleep after a LONG day of work. We had Sacrament meeting in the morning, and then all returned to working before we drove home. It was a neat experience, but quite strange sitting in the chapel in our jeans and t-shirts taking the sacrament! We were grateful to be there having such a neat, once-in-a-lifetime experience though. This was the group we were with at the house of the couple in the center of the photo. They weren't on our list, but they were next door to one we were working on so we went to help them.

Charleston & Jack Johnson- LABOR DAY WKND

Hello?!?! I totally forgot to mention that Delinda, Megan and I went to Charleston, SC over Labor Day weekend!! Duh... One of the Sales Managers that I support at work bought me 4 tickets to see Jack Johnson there. If you haven't heard of him, you should- he's a very good musician and if you're into really laid back and relaxing music, you'll like him.

We stopped in Gilbert first to stay with Unlce Mark & Aunt Sally which is about half way to Charleston. They were gracious as always. We love staying with them because it's like being at home. It's good to know that they are so close (3 hours away). Then we headed to Charleston the next day and drove around in the town trying to find our hotel, but also checking things out. If you ever go there, Meeting Street is a good sight-seeing, happening street to be on. We found our hotel across the bridge and checked in and then went back to Meeting St. to get lunch and check out "The Market". The Market was one of the former slave trade markets. We got a free lunch across the street- they said it was because our lunch took too long to get to us, but I think that it was mostly because we tipped our waitress with our extra ticket to the concert.
That night we went to the concert and it was a lot of fun, except there were TOO many teenagers that looked like they walked off the Abercrombie & Fitch photo shoot down the road. They kind of ruined it for me, but the music was GREAT and Jack was awesome.