New Orleans 2

Hey peeps!!! SO... As you know we had an adventure today. We had a seemingly fast and flawless drive from the church that we stayed at to Shreveport, where we stopped for lunch. However.. once lunch was over and we got on the busses again well... Not far for the first bus, it made it around the corner before everything stopped and a horrific smell came from the engine. Seeing as we were blocking traffic we had to move the bus to a parking spot.. How you might ask? The GIRLS pushed it over the median into a perfect parking spot! All the busses played various games in a grassy area that was painfully discovered to be a home to fire ants. After some time we decided to shove all the kids possible onto the working busses, and a few of us stayed behind (Jennifer, Rachel,Josh, Nate, Felicia, Katie, Paige and a good amount of leaders.). Many things can done when stranded as we creatively discovered, such as going into Wal-Mart for AC and entertainment, and Wendy’s for water and shakes, we quickly became favorite there. Also one of the more exiting things was people selling puppies on the side of the road by the van! The first was a lady and her toddler with 5 Doberman-labs for 25 a piece. We believe she sold all her dogs in the end but we can’t be sure. Later a man with 5 pure breed Old English Bulldogs, for 500 a piece (he might have sold one). It was very fun to meet the people and pet the cute doggies!! Most of the time however was spent in wall-mart finding gauges for Felicia (we couldn’t find any and ended up making them out of rolled tape. AWESOME) and entertaining ourselves in other ways. With the grace of God the van finally got fixed by the most shnazzy mechanics of all time! The mechanics refused the large amount of money for their work, and we went out to Wing Stop for a great dinner that couldn’t be beat and then hit the road!! All in all we where there for 6+ hrs. and should arrive in New Orleans around midnight if were lucky! :)

BETHANY ALVAREZ
GRADE 10