Our last day started out with the team divided again. Don, Chris and Jim headed up to start framing walls for the new house off Hermitage Road, while Laura and Bob went to our third house to poly the hardwood floors. Part of the other team from Richmond (they are from Lyndale Baptist Church) was there working on the kichen cabinets. We were able to have a good visit with these folks while we worked together. Part of their team was loading up some wood for the new house, so when all was done there, we all headed up the road to unload wood and help with the framing. Our friend, Russell Drewery drove down from NOLA today to work along side us and we were so grateful for the extra set of hands!

Rick had to leave early to go to NOLA to pick up his truck that has been in the shop all week. We were left with the task of putting the plywood sheeting on the two outside walls. Unfortunately, we were not able to raise those walls yet……some other team will get to do that! That will be an interesting job, considering the house is being built about 10 feet off the ground. We felt like we were building a tree house today, we were so far up in the trees!

Friday dinner just doesn’t get much better than what we experienced! Bruce LePointe, Volunteer Coordinator for CPR, served up a southern LA shrimp boil with shrimp, potatoes, corn, and sausage all cooked together. He also grilled red fish and speckled trout on the grill. Needless to say, we all ate and ate and then ate some more!!

Saturday morning ended up being part of a work day for Laura and Rick. Since the electrician was in the third house where we worked on the hard wood floors on Thursday, we weren’t able to put poly on the floor until Friday morning. Since the poly needs to dry for 24 hours, the second coat was going to be left undone. We didn’t want that to happen, so at 7:00am this morning, Rick and Laura headed over to the house to put that second coat of poly on the floors. We were pulling back into the church parking lot at 7:45am!

By 8:45 we were pulling out of Port Sulphur Baptist Church, headed to the airport. We stopped at the little gas station diner up the road for a full breakfast and then on to NOLA! We are now awaiting our flight in the NOLA airport and are anxious to arrive home to family and friends and to share stories that didn’t make it on the blog. It has been a wonderful week of work, fellowship and learning and all are ready to do it all over again! Thank you for your prayers and support for this continued partnership with our good friends of Plaquemines Parish and Port Sulphur Baptist Church.