Friday Picnic

All of us were really excited to get to the picnic. We were finished with our work week and it was time to celebrate everything that had happened on the trip. Stevie, Andre, Nick and I sat on the back of the bus and played "It's time for the perculator" over and over. Lol, that was also a running joke on the trip and I'm not quite sure how it got started!

Andre playing the song on his phone for us.

Stevie and I

The picnic was one of my favorite parts of the trip. First we started off with service at FABC. This time service was Crossroads style. They also did baptisms which was cool to see. I've only seen the Catholic baptism, where they baby's head has holy water poured over it. Here an adult chooses to get baptised. The baptiser can be anyone who has already made the choice to follow God. So the baptiser and person being baptised stand in a pool of water and is dunked backwards into the pool to clense themselves. It was actually really cool to see.

This was during service, the window in the back is where people were baptised.

After service a woman from FABC pulled the photo team aside and gave us all gift bags! They had chips, red beans and rice, seasoning, mardi gras beads, and pralines in them.


After service Moose told me to hurry up and get outside to the picnic for a surprise. Right away I knew what it was. The Roots of Music came to the picnic to play for us! I was so excited because it was such a great program and awesome experience to see it. I wanted all my habitat friends to be able to see them too. We even talked about how cool it would be if we could get them to come perform for us.

It was really great to see people that I had met throughout the week, talk to some new locals and play with the kids. I found Ms. Nicole and bought a copy of her book, which I've actually since read and I really liked it. Great story line and she included hurricane Katrina in it which was very cool. I had a picture of me and her but it's on someone else's camera I'll need to get that :)

Another one of my favorite people (Ms. Patricia) was there and she brought me a candy apple! That's what I loved so much about the people we met in New Orleans. We were there to help them. To give them something that may have been taken away from them in the storm. These people also came baring gifts for us. They weren't selfish people that thought the world owed them something for how they were treated during Kartina. They genuinely appreciated that people came from Cincinnati, OH by bus to do anything they could to help them, five years later. It really felt good to be a part of.

Ms. Patricia, Stevie, and I

There was so much to do at the picnic. They had food which was great as usual and I'm not a tea drinker but the sweet tea, damn it was good!

These wonderful people brought us all the good food.

We had Bengals cornhole!!

Snow Cones!

if you were willing to wait in line...

Face painting by the lovely Shannon

Also a boy by the name of Jeremiah would do your hair for free, then he'd say "You've been Jeremiahed" and run off. He did mine. I had my hair up because it was so hot out, he took my hair down and said you're more of a down, natural type lady. lol.

Some of his models...

Hoopin'

The Drums!

Photo Crew!

more pics to come....