The view from the window of my hotel room.
More hotel view pics.
And the other angle.
That's our pool on the 8th floor.
Oceana, the restaurant we ate at for lunch on Wednesday.
Another piece of art from Oceana.
Night-time from my hotel room.
A new addition to the National Youth Gathering for 2010. Don't get lost on this tour!
Part of the refurbished Convention Center.
The master plan for room assignments! I work in Event Base in 211, 212, and 213.
The proposed CLB area.
More CLB area.
An exhibit hall.
And again.
One of the Event base rooms. The wall on the left opens up to the other 2 rooms.
The view from Event Base.
The local bean brewery for those late nights at the Event Base.
Crisis Intervention's room... For now...
Our friends from the North.
My roomie for this trip. Steve works with Linda to assign rooms in the convention center among other important tasks.
The red carpet treatment for the Shaklee conference. There were sound efefcts of people cheering and clapping as you walk up the aisle.
Maria gives the red carpet wave.
Maria and Jeff are the stars of the gathering planning team.
Jeff doesn't read so well...
A concert venue. Unless we convince Jeremy (head pictured) to switch with Event Base.
It's Jeffrey! Sort of...
Another auditorium. Maybe Event Base can take this room instead of the larger concert venue.
Pictures from around New Orleans.
Laborers for Christ is helping to fix up this church. They are hoping to re-open soon.
The industrial canal that had levies break on both sides, flooding the neighborhoods it ran through.
Purple arrows indicate homes that Camp Restore is still waiting to start working on fixing.
Me and Sandy at Cafe Reconcile.
Craig celebrates his corn bread arrival.
Dinner. Salad, Chicken, Mashed Potatoes, Catfish Nuggets, Jumbalaya, Shrip Gumbo and Crawfish Bisque. Yummy!
Love the banner's slogan.
The dark line is one of the flood lines. It actually was above the line for some time, but sat at that level the longest.
Bob Baker has been playing Sue at this gathering. He's doing great, but we miss Sue's presence.
Light from the stained glass streams into the church.
Another shot of the canal.