3rd Work Day

Sorry we didn't post yesterday. After a busy day of work, we came home and took a shower. Those showers may look soooo gross but after hours and hours of work, the showers feel wonderful. Yesterday after the showers, we hung out a bit, then ate a small dinner in the dining hall.
Then we loaded in the van with some of the girls' room mates, and heading for Bourbon Street. We ate at local cafes including Cafe Du Monde, and Hard Rock Cafe. There were many adventures such as the things we have to do to get into a bathroom at a fitness club, and fun street performers. We got home sleepy, but dont worry. pictures will be posted.

Today, however, is the third day of working on the corner of Plum and Eagle. We're working on a house. Starting out with only foundation and a frame, the house has all of the exterior walls, most of the interior walls, most of the sheathing, a basic decking, and a lot of hard labor in that house. Today we put up a lot of sheathing and interior walls. After we got all of the larger interior walls built, we put up the final exterior walls and the rest of the smaller interior walls will be put in through the window and door openings of the home.
We were hot, and sweating, and using a portable toilet, none of which was fun, but even still everyone loves it here. Camp Hope is amazingly fun, with paintings all of the place from all the groups that have come down here over the past two years. And its still not enough, you can tell by going down almost any given street in the area to see that the city and its surroundings still have obvious destruction, and a lot of it.

We're glad to be here, and many of us would like to come back.
Will update with pictures later.
The Horizon Hammers