Blogs from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, United States, North America

The Gulf Coast of Mississippi From New Orleans we followed on our guideline Route 10 east over the edge of Lake Ponchartrain. We did not cross the Lake Ponchartrain Causeway that crosses the large lake that broke through the levees and flooded the bowl of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. The causeway crosses its center headed northwards for nearly 24 miles (36.8 km) and is the world’s longest bridge over continuous water. We crossed over the easterly bridge, called the ‘Twin Spans’ bridge that had been severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina and its easterly span had only reopened in July 2009. This bridge is 5.4 miles long (about 8.7km) and is very impressive (and our first experience of these long southern bridges that I have already written about). We drove very slow and admired the view ... read more

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Had a truly wonderful Easter. After church, I ate lunch and then baked the amazing rosemary facaccia bread that Ingrid usually makes (since she was at work). It actually didn't turn out half bad. Mid-afternoon we went to Lauren's house to begin our easter celebrations. When we got there, we discovered that miss Lauren had made us Easter baskets! It was the most lovely surprise. =) We proceeded to sit out on her driveway and dye eggs! =) It was lots of fun... I can't remember the last time I did it. Brought back good memories. It was amusing, because while we acted like kids and dyed eggs, we were also drinking wine. We found this juxtaposition to be entertaining. =) After egg dying, Lauren baked fish and sauteed green beans and we warmed up the ... read more

Obfuscator writes: The morning was a pleasant one, fairly bright, not raining, and cool. Our kind host at the New Orleans Guest House gave us a light breakfast of fruit and croissant, juice, and tea. It was tasty and hit the spot. We packed up our gear and checked out. Our plan was to tour New Orleans for a while, and then move on. As it turned out, we would spend pretty much the whole day there, which was all right, since we didn't really have anywhere else we needed to be. We started off by finding a parking lot in the French Quarter, where we could leave our car for the day. Since we didn't really have anywhere in particular to go, we wandered around for a while, and eventually ended up on Canal Street, ... read more

Wednesday March 19th Word of the Day: Precipitation!!! Yes… Precipitation, not snow like we hear home got this week but good old rain. Because of the rain we decided to wait to head out to our job site until after it stopped raining. So after breakfast at 6:00 a.m. we had about an hour and a half of free time. What better to do with free time but sleep! Morgan and Matt helped out in the kitchen cleaning up from breakfast while the rest of us took a nap. We arrive at our work site about 9:00 a.m. ready for work, but unfortunately the rain wasn’t ready to stop. It started raining soon after we got back to work cleaning out the brick pile. While Scott ran to go order some wood to finish the end ... read more