Thursday, April 6, 2006
The Big Easy
 I'm writing from the lobby of the New Orleans Pontchartrain Hotel. I'm down here for some training for work, and the whole family came along to go to the zoo. It's nice to sorta have a break. Today's class time ended up being cut in half, and tomorrow's class is only scheduled to be four hours. The downtime is much needed: I left work Monday about ready to kill one of our "team members"; I was sick Monday night and Tuesday; and Wednesday was about as hectic as they come. Thank God for the Big Easy.
Driving across I-10 into the city yesterday, trying to find food in the Garden District last night, walking downtown and through the French Quarter today - it all seems pretty surreal. Many things - probably half - are still closed (including, to Hollie's chagrin, the Copeland's Cheesecake Bistro next door to our hotel and, to our boys' chagrin, the St Charles trolley, which ordinarily stops in front of the hotel), but the city seems alive and well, considering. It will never be the same (not necessarily a bad thing), but it doesn't look like it's going anywhere. God bless it.
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