Utterly Exhausted

Okay—so I’ve gotten comments to the fact that we didn’t finish blogging our trip, so I’m here to update on our last night in NOLA and our trip home. I’m sorry for the delay, I have been absolutely exhausted!

Our last night in NOLA proved to be a nice time. We went out, listened to some music and had a decent dinner, of course, this is where the ‘story’ comes in to play.

We haven’t heard much about Sarah on this trip, but she gets her spot today. For two of the three days, Sarah worked in Musician’s Village with Habitat for Humanity. Now, when someone applies to have a home built for them by Habitat, they must commit 350 labor hours to the project, so there is definite buy-in for the incoming homeowner. Since this is Musician’s Village, a lot of the homes are being built for NOLA Jazz musicians, so she met Steamboat Willie”. On Friday, (sorry but this really wasn’t a story then) she was working and someone put a pair of sunglasses in her pocket, they were found on the jobsite, however, by the end of the day she lost them. On the bus to go back to the hotel, someone from the New Orleans League got on the bus, asked for Sarah, because she had the glasses, and she didn’t know what to do, since they were gone. She scrunched down in the bus, took off her nametag and went about her travels back to the hotel.

Saturday she worked again at the same place, no news on the glasses, other than they belong to Steamboat Willie! On Saturday night when we went out, we stopped in Musical Legends Park because we saw Steamboat Willie’s banner….she worked with him and we wanted an introduction (although he really didn’t know her name or anything). We get there and he’s sitting on the bench, waiting to start his set. He says hi to her, and she makes a comment (as he’s wearing these sunglasses) that she was happy he found his glasses. He advised her that he didn’t find them, those were a different pair, and that someone named SARAH found them, and he’s hoping she actually returns them!

Now, I’m not sure how funny this is when you’re not “in the moment”, but the look on Sarah’s face when he said that was mortifying. She didn’t know what to do or say, and you could tell she felt awful. What seemed like 5 minutes, but was about 20 seconds went by and she said, “Steamboat Willie, I’m SARAH and I lost your glasses. I’m soooo sorry.” It was hysterical, especially since she hid from the Junior League girl who was looking for her to get them back! We later asked him if he knew she was Sarah, and he says he didn’t. He said that ultimately it wasn’t her fault, he was the one that lost them to begin with. So we joked about the sunglasses for a while, listed to some music that he played and enjoyed a ‘beverage’ or two before dinner.

Sunday morning our flight left at 6:00 and by noon we were home in CT, and I was on the couch—some anniversary for Tom, I slept until 5:00 and we went to dinner, came home and watched Amazing Race and Desperate Housewives, then back to bed! This week has just been catching up and now, sitting in the Charlotte, NC airport, heading to sunny Florida for the weekend. I’m sorry for the delay, but it’s been a long week!


Until next time~All the best!