Well we got off the ship yesterday morning at about 11:00 a.m. We got into our car and drove to a restaurant named Mandina's. This is a restaurant we went to during our last trip to New Orleans in 2005. It's a little off the beaten path and the clientele are mostly local folks. We each had a bowl of seafood gumbo for lunch. I asked the server if the had much flooding during Katrina and she said they had 7 feet of water in the restaurant.
We drove out into St Bernard Parish and Chalmette where I had wired the house a week before to show Linda the house. That particular area was a nice middle class neighborhood. Now it is about 20% occupied homes, 40% homes in various stages of repair and 40% concrete slabs where homes once stood.
We drove to the area where the Brad Pitt houses are being built and took more pictures and then headed west. Only drove for about 125 miles to Breaux Bridge, LA and spent the night. We drug most all our stuff into the room a repacked so we wouldn't have to mess with some of the clothes, etc again.
This morning we headed west to Houston. Got in this afternoon and spent the evening with Linda's cousin Garrett and his wife Dory. Went to a barbecue place for dinner and back to their house for dessert and more visiting. At about 9:00 p.m. we headed to our hotel and called it an evening.
Tomorrow we are going to meet up with my cousin Sandy who I haven't seen since sometime in the 1950's. Depending on how the visit goes will determine how far west we will get tomorrow.
I'm going to call this quits for tonight.
Take care everyone.
Bob & Linda
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