New Orleans Pictures, part 1!

Do to technical difficulty, I had to put my New Orleans pictures in two posts, so after looking at "New Orleans Pictures, part 1!", please proceed to "New Orleans Pictures, part 2!" Sorry for this inconvenience.
Thanks for all the prayers. Other than a ton of bruises, I did not get hurt. It was an awesome trip. There were about 1500 college students down there last week. At our camp was about 300. We got to share 8 showers total (four for girls, four for boys), and about 12 porta-potties. We stayed in this huge circus tent that held about 200 people. And the food... well... it was edible. I felt pretty old; one of the girls that went asked me if I spoke at her school when she was in junior high (I was a sophmore in college then), and another girl asked me if I spoke at a girls conference she went to (that was while I was at Lincoln). We would joke about my age all week; example, they wouldn't let me have any Trix... cuz Trix are for kids, not old farts like me. But I had a blast. We helped gut out houses and a warehouse, we worked at the camp that we were staying at by cleaning and serving meals to the homeless/poor people in the area, and we helped clean a college in New Orleans. Here are some pictures. Unfortunately, they are not in the order that I put them in, so they kinda jump around from day to day.

On the first day down there, we had off and got to sight-see in the French Quarters. This is all of our butts. I'm second from the right; the really skinny one.

On night, some of us went to Bourbon St. after working. We went dancing; being the goof that I am, I broke out into the "running man", and the dj saw me and got the whole bar cheering "go white girl, go white girl, go" which, of course, encouraged me to free style. It was freakin' hilarious. Then at this other place, we got to ride the mechanical bull for free (thanks to the cute brunette on the right in the picture). And the girls behind us had to pay. Ba-ha-ha! I had always wanted to do that; it was really fun and I actually was able to stay on for a long time.

This is me and Amie at Applebee's.

Here's me ganking a sign at the warehouse that we were cleaning out. Don't worry, I asked the guy who owned the place if I could have it.

Big trees like this one were down everywhere down there.

Here's me gutting a house.

Here's some of the stuff that we gutted out on the first day. You can't really tell, but I have a layer of dry wall dust and other crap in my hair which made me look like I had gray hair, which led to more old jokes.

Here's some more gutting. The water line went up to about the door frame, so almost everything was ruined. We were about to find some photo albums and paintings that were not damaged. As silly as is sounds, that would be one of my greatest concerns if my house was flooded.

Here's me once again tearing up the place. I had to tear through 3 layers of dry wall, these little wooden slats, wall paper, and plaster. It was ridiculous. The kitchen was work (that's the picture up above). It was wall paper, on top of dry wall, on top of this thin cardboard type of stuff, on top of about an inch of wood, on top of the little wooden slats. It took forever to tear it down.