I really haven't been home all day until now (9:20 PM), so I am exhausted! The team who left yesterday used all of our cars to get to the airport, so we had to drive to the airport with enough drivers to drive all the cars back. We recruited the pastor and his wife to help us, so after church and a quick lunch at Subway, we were off! To get from Mandeville to New Orleans, you have to drive across a very long bridge called the Causeway. The Causeway is the longest bridge in the US (your trivia fact for the day!) and is approximately 30 miles long. It's so long that you can't see the opposite shore at all for a couple miles. We were told that there were 4 cars that we needed to drive back to the church, so Mrs. Lewis drove us to the airport in her minivan and dropped us off at the parking garage. We had to wander the garage to locate all the cars, but we were given faulty info, and there turned out to be only 3 cars. Luckily, I had waited for Mr. Lewis so that I could follow him home, so he hitched a ride with me. All of the CR cars aren't in the best of shape, but Eeyore, the car I was driving, is probably one of the worst. We just discovered that the driver's window doesn't go up, which is not fun when you're on the Causeway. Because of the window, I now have a sunburn on only my left arm. In addition to that, the center rearview mirror was attached to the window with duct tape and had fallen down, and the back windshield wiper hangs down like a tail-- hence the name Eeyore.
Kara had all-star softball tryouts today at 5:30, so we went to those, ate a quick dinner, and went out to a boat landing type place where people go crabbing and fishing. We arrived just as the sun was setting, and it was gorgeous against the marshlands. Emily took some pictures, and Caleb fished for a bit while the rest of us just relaxed.
Tomorrow I am going to the office with Mr. Lewis for some meetings, and then I am going to hang some sheetrock in the new Crisis Response building! CR is building the warehouse so that they will have their own space for offices, storage, and hosting teams instead of having to share with the church. I will try to take some pictures if I can remember to take my camera!