# 18 Mardi Gras
Started work early Sat a.m. So we could quit early & get to the Krewe Du Vieux Mardi Gras parade!! It's known as the wild one...satire, adult theme & politics. It sure matched that bill & more! The parade route was jam packed with a rowdy, loud, partying crowd...including several AHV not wearing our AHV tshirts. Floats depicting Trump in less than flattering themes added fuel to the party. As we walked down the street, people in the above balconies tossed beads below...course you know what they wanted to see...guess they felt sorry for the old gray-haired lady who refused & tossed me beads anyways. We left the AHV kids to enjoy Bourbon St. without us & met David (another AHV elder) for dinner, then headed for a hotel. And to think this was just the beginning of lots more parades before the really big one!
#19. NoLa's Lower 9th
What an unlucky place to live! Since we were allowed to have an AHV 12 passenger van, we were free to wander where we pleased today...so we headed to New Orlean's (NoLa's) Lower 9th. We slowly drove through the area that Katrina had hit the hardest...and a few months later, Rita hit...and last week a tornado touched down there. And they hadn't even recovered from Katrina. We drove by newly constructed Post Office, schools, fire & police departments, ball fields & play structures and homes...and skeletons of homes...and cleared lots which only cement slaps left. Three stages of rebuilding. Thought we didn't go by the tornado site, we've seen pictures & knew first hand what it would look like. And who lives in this lower 9th??? The poorest of NoLa. I can only say. Why??? Why did they get another kick in the behind???
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