My Texas driver’s license showed up today finally. I’m now officially a citizen of the big ‘ole state of Texas, complete with a stupid looking mugshot.

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Took a drive down to the Galleria today, mainly to see how to get there and where to park.

Place is flipping huge. Apple store was neat and the indoor ice rink was cool (no pun intended).

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Yay. Our new dining room table set was delivered tonight.

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These were the happy faces after eating Thanksgiving dinner. I was happy we all got to be together. It was the best birthday present I could have gotten. See y’all at Christmas!
-Donna

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A wreck on I10 Eastbound shut down all 3 lanes. Traffic was bumper to bumper for 10 miles.

Good thing we’re heading West.

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On the road back to Houston now.

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I uploaded a bunch of images I took this past week in Bay Saint Louis, MS to the gallery.

http://gallery.sodh.net/katrina/bsl/

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My battery died yesterday morning so I didn’t have my device around for the actual dinner, I’m making leftover breakfast :)

Donna’s mom is on the board of the historical society so we were able to use the kitchen in the building to store and cook all our food.

Mmmm…..turkey…..

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The infamous FEMA trailer.

Hanging out with family and playing sock puppets with Henry.

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Today we drove around Bay Saint Louis for the first time since we left here on August 27,the day before Katrina made landfall.

I just don’t have the words to describe the amount of destruction here. Everywhere we went, where a house or business stood in August is now a pile of debris, or flat out gone.

Here’s a few pics from just walking down the block from the bakery to the beach. I think all the numbers should match the pic :)

1) The Fema trailer (will post pics later)
2) The ‘mini’ trailer Donna and I are sleeping in
3) Last night’s heater
4) The ‘living room’
5) The ‘patio’
6) Storage
7) You can see straight to the backyard now
8) Fema blue roof, seen from inside.
9) Bakery area
10) Front counter/gallery
11) Front of bakery
12) Fire wood chopping
13 - 17) MRE’s
18) County lockup
19) Broken water line, normally a few feet underground.
20) Former beachfront store. Ground level was about 4ft higher than you see now.
21) What’s left of a beach bar
22) Tracks pulled out the bay from the bridge
23) Used to be a store & resturant across the tracks here.
24) Used to be a house here, 5ft up even with the tracks. Everything here just washed away about 4 ft down.
25) Construction on the train bridge
26) The beach bar again
27) A lonly Santa Claus
28-29) Here I’m standing in the middle of what used to be the street along the beach. Everything collapsed up to the storefronts almost.
30-31) Some of cars found tossed about
32) And I know some of yall will get a chuckle out of this. The Hancock Bank building.

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