Cat = 02
The first event this morning was an orientation session (“Hi, I’m Randy from Boise Idaho…”, Here’s what’s going to happen this week. Here are maps, Books, Handouts that you will find interesting. Here’s your listening device. Now let’s test them. Stuff like that). The session was scheduled for 9:30 so Cheryl and I decided that […]
The morning started out much the same as any other. Up, breakfast – OK, that’s where the similarity ends. Following breakfast we finished packing and hied ourselves hence to the airport shuttle. Arriving at the airport we met others of our tour group and spent a couple of leisurly hours getting to know a few
K-So…Sleep was a particularly difficult commodity to come by last night. (Don’t everybody look surprised all at once.) Both Cheryl and I spent a couple of hours in the middle of the night up, reading. Fortunately I got to sleep just before the alarm went off at 7:00 this morning. but we were dressed and
Not much to report today. We arrived. Billie had ordered a wheel chair to meet the plane for Steve. SO COOL! I guess it was OK for Steve, but I particularly appreciated the way we breezed thru Passport Control and Customs and out (the LONG walk) to where we were to meet the shuttle to
Following a leisurly morning – up at the normal time, breakfast, final prep items, going over the list one more time, Steve and Billie arrived at 10:15. By 10:30 we were in the taxi and on our way. Cleared security very quickly (It is Boise, after all.) and had lunch at one of the
Now all I have to do is pack and we’re ready to go.
The day started when Kim sent Spencer in to wake us up – a favorite task of any 2 year old. The word was that we needed to be “on the road” by 9:00. OK, I guess we’re going somewhere for breakfast. At the appointed hour we loaded into cars and headed off to Moore
Following breakfast we had one last class – a review of Carnival. Our instructor: t talked about traditions and presented slides showing some of the standard and some of the crazy sights to be seen. She also gave out “throws” as prizes. Following this last session we checked out of our room, left our luggage
We start this morning with a look at some of the artwork that has been gracing us this week: This morning we hurried thru breakfast this morning so we could bet to the World War II museum on time for our 9:00 showing of their excellent (produced and narrated by Tom Hanks) film about WW
Following breakfast this morning we had a lecture on the architectural history of New Orleans. Then we got on the bus and rode out to the “Garden District” to take an architectural walking tour There are some beautiful houses in the district (west of downtown, firmly in the “American sector”) Our route took us along