After almost TWO years, I finally (with inspiration) organized and uploaded our digital photos from our New Year's trip to New Orleans on our Flickr site. If in the slideshow format, you can click on the photo to see a title and description of the photo.
For those of you who don't know (or don't remember), Joe and I drove down to New Orleans after Christmas in December 2003. Aside from a day of rain, the city treated us extremely well. Joe proposed to me under a beautiful tree in Audubon Park on December 30th and we had a fantastic time everyday that we were there. It's extremely sad to see all of the destruction to such an amazing city. I'm not in a very good position to go down south to help with the recovery process at this point. However, I have had the honor of working with one of the Mississippi survivors of the hurricane while he's been a patient on my unit at the hospital. He was lucky enough to survive complete destruction of his neighborhood, home, and personal belongings and get flown to family in Madison--at least temporarily. He is very optimistic and hopes to re-build, move back to his hometown, and continue is retirement in the city where he grew up. Hopefully we're doing everything we can to help him get started on his wish.
If you haven't already, please donate to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund, The Humane Society (who are leading in the relief effort to rescue pets that had to be left behind, as well as assist their owners), or some other disaster relief organization.
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