Day 4...Finally in New Orleans!

Today was an interesting day with half of it being traveling. We also got to go on a bus ride tour of New Orleans. We had to leave from Memphis at 6:30 so this morning was an early one. Once we got into our hotel, we had to drop our stuff off and get ourselves registered for ELCA youth gathering as soon as we could. Then we went back to our hotel to wait for the bus to arrive so we could go on the bus tour. We got to learn a lot about New Orleans and our first stop was a cemetery where people would spend a lot of money on the gravestones. Our second stop was the Cafe Du Monde where we got to try the famous New Orleans Beignets which ended up being really good. Then we got to see Lakefront which was completely underwater with Hurricane Katrina with the wall levees, then to end it off, we got to see these really big houses where that cost millions of dollars. Once we got back to our hotel, we got to walk to the Smoothie King Center for our group gathering. We got to listen to a lot of good songs with the band "The Afters." They sang some really good songs, then we got to listen to some stories too, overall it was a really fun day.

Written by Elijah and Edited by Ethan