First Couple Days of SPIKE

We left Friday morning to head head down south. We spent Friday night in Knoxville, TN at a Days Inn, which was surprisingly really crappy. Saturday morning we left real early headed down through Georgia and then went west to Mississippi. On the way through Georgia we ran drove through a snow storm and it was freezing. But once we got to Mississippi the weather was quite nice, I hung out for a bit that night but then just went to bed. Sunday morning i slept in till about 10:30am. My team went to Biloxi, Mississippi for the day but myself and Phil decided to stay back and relax. I took a leisurely breakfast and started talking to some people from Denver and we decided to go to the beach which is only about 1/2 mile away and the water is reasonably warm for this time of year. So I spent most of the day at the beach with a couple of the Denver teams while my team was seeing other people from Perry Point in Biloxi. Today (Monday) my team drove around Waveland, MS which got the very worst of the hurricane and the place is looking better but there are still plots of land where stairs lead to nothing and there are drive ways that lead to just fields of grass. After Waveland we drove to New Orleans to see the destruction there as well. We drove through the Lower and Higher 9th Ward which is where the flooding hurt them the most. (I don't know if you knew already, but New Orleans didn't get get by the hurricane. For them the levees just broke and they were flooded for an extremely long time which hurt them horribly because everything became rotten and destroyed. After the Ward's we drove through the French Quarter and ate at that one famous French coffee/donut restaurant. We drove back so we could get back in time for dinner at 6:00pm. Tomorrow will be our paper work day and site orientation, our actual work won't start till Wednesday. Well I have to go and have a team meeting, I will tell you more about my living situation next time i write something.

Oh and here is a picture of my house mates back at the point. Two of them aren't there because they didn't show up for our house picture.