We're home now. Satisfied. Tired, but renewed. The excitement of helping restore hope as well as the energy of Mardi Gras parades will long linger within us.

Thank you for your prayers. They kept us going strong. Keep the City of New Orleans and it's people in your continuing prayers.

Until our next trip - October 5-11, 2008 - "Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez" and "God Bless."



Our final Team Blogger is Will Hart:

It is Saturday but, I don’t want it to be, this week went by too fast. I already want to come back. What is really weird is that I have this image of New Orleans in my head; what I want it to be, what I want is to be able to have this city be complete and be back to what is was before. But I don’t know what it was before, and I don’t know if New Orleans would be the way it is without Katrina. The mark it left on this city is a scar but I think I would look at it differently if Katrina hadn’t happened.

We woke up later than usual (minus Morning Watch) and began our day by going to Café Du Monde eating delicious and sugary beignets. Then we traveled through the French Market and picked up some souvenirs, I got a really fantastic hooded sweatshirt that is extremely warm some sunglasses and a great hat, which I bartered for a lower price. We also saw the Imax movie Hurricane on the Bayou that still puts an odd feeling in your stomach after watching, personally I didn’t really like the film except for its music, but it was eye opening.

Right now we’re watching Fight Club and getting ready to go out to some Smiley restaurant. I really don’t know.

The week in retrospect was awesome. We completed what will be the base of the house and then some. When we first arrived there was nothing on these pieces of cement that would support the house, and yesterday the house we worked on primarily was ready for flooring. With some teamwork, muscles, and sunburn we got a lot of work done. I came to New Orleans with this idea, this image. What I wanted New Orleans to be, but, after the tour and hearing the stories of everyone we met, New Orleans hasn’t really changed the way I thought it would be. Everything is almost like we left it last year except for the houses we made last year. Its baby steps, but it's progress.