We landed

Here we are in St. Bernard, Louisiana, to start our volunteer stint. We arrived in Louisiana yesterday and took our time getting across the state.
Last night we stayed in Natchitoches (locally pronounced "nack-a-tish") and had some good cajun food. The town dates to 1714, and is the oldest settlement in the Louisiana Purchase. It's a beautiful old college town, and it was homecoming weekend for the local college.
I'll write in another post about a couple other sights we enjoyed on our way here.
My first impression of St. Bernard is that everything is cleaner, more upbeat and more populated than it was in April, when I was here the first time. There seem to be more cars in driveways and on the streets, and more people in general. A few more businesses of many kinds seem to be operating as well. It's nice to see, and validates our work here.
Camp Hope, the volunteer camp, is also greatly improved. The whole camp abandoned its old site with no permanent walls in favor of another school. Overall it is a great improvement, as far as we can tell so far.
As a chronically impatient person, I am anxious for the workweek to start. With our housing and other details in limbo for now, I think I will feel much better when I am holding a hammer or a paintbrush on Monday morning.