day one

I took this picture of the view outside our bedroom window on the first day we arrived here. That day we left at 2 in the morning from Greenville and drove all day — hubby in the U-Haul and I in the Saturn. When we arrived in New Orleans, we’d been driving forever, the cat was drugged, all the carefully arranged crap in both vehicles had been thrown around, and many empty bottles of coke & fast-food wrappers had been added to the mess.

And it was raining buckets. It was impossible to see at all, really, and driving through New Orleans traffic in a U-Haul trying to keep up with one another was nerve wracking. We were dropping the U-Haul off at a friend’s house so we wouldn’t have to park it overnight in the French Quarter.

So we ended up sleeping on a bare mattress & towling off with a single hand-towel we had in the car because when it came time to get our overnight stuff we’d so carefully placed in the back of the U-Haul, it was still raining, things had shifted, and well…. we were frustrated. We forgot many things.

But we remembered the camera and took this picture.

I’ve tried many times to take a better night picture of our view, but none have really been any better than this one. Either it’s my camera or my skills. But our view is beautiful, and this picture just doesn’t do it justice.