What an adventure! Our group is staying with two sets of wonderful people, Lou and Wilma Rizzardi, and Marie Peralta, very fortunate people who had minimal and easy to repair damage to their homes in Pass Christian. Today, we got the lay of the land, looking at the places they visited last time in November. We made connections with new groups, say that some groups had folded, and observed a lot of young people here to volunteer on their spring break. What a vision. After eating lunch at God's Katrina Kitchen on the East side of town, Dave, Chris, and I headed over to the park, which is currently named "The Village" because it is the center of "town" now. We deconstructed a swing set and playground structure, rolled a lot of telephone poles into
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