A Series of Unfortunate Events

Thouse that I worked on on Monday and Tuesday of this week seems to attract disasters. Monday morning, I attempted to leap over the ditch in front of the house to avoid stepping in the mud, slipped, fell flat on my butt, and got my backside all wet. However, I'm not sure that this is really the house's fault. I think it was just karma for driving away and leaving Ashley in the rain only 5 minutes earlier. Lesson learned. Not too long after that, Ashley and I were painting the front doors on saw horses with blood red paint. We had the paint can sitting on the door and had about half of the door done when the saw horse breaks! The door hit the ground and the almost full can of red paint splattered all over the newly tiled floor. We rushed to clean it up, but unfortunately the paint stained the grout and so a small section has to be grinded out and redone. Tuesday morning we arrived at the same house only to discover that some kind of pipe had burst in the attic and three rooms were flooded. Hopefully things will start going a little better over there.

Now,we need to back it up to the Mardi Gras ball. Not a whole lot to say other than that it was really fun.

Here's the team before we left:

The view from the balcony:

The awesome band:

Monday through Thursday of last week was spent almost entirely on the roof. I, along with teammate Ashley, and intern John, were working with homeowner Lester to completely cover his roof in tin. I think I have officially overcome my fear of ladders :D

Friday was spent annihilating a fireplace:

This past weekend, I we had our first Service Learning trip planned by Beth and I. Service Learning is basically learning more about the poject we are working on. The goal of this trip was to learn more about Hurricane Ike since that is the reason we are here after all. We drove to Port Bolivar and took the ferry to Galveston:

and looked at different landmarks including the line on the First National Bank that marks the height of the flooding caused by the hurricane:

Well, that just about wraps it up for now. Things are going really well here. I can't believe it has almost been four weeks already. I don't want this project to go by so fast!