HOLY CRAP!!! UNBELIEVABLE!!! Today I watched the game at home, and it was such an emotional roller coaster - but I never lost faith (unlike some that I won't name.......). Right after the game everyone in the neighborhood, including us, went outside laughing and screaming, everyone pouring outside and jumping up and down, cars in the street blowing their horns, fireworks, and yes, even some gunshots ('keepin' the New Orleans brand out there' the eejit said). The feeling, and I wasn't even AT the dome, is almost overwhelming - and this from a lifelong Steelers fan who converted to the Saints after falling in love with the city and the people when I moved here in 2008.
WHO DAT, BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm really impressed with Mr. Payton - not only is he such a cool customer who's beloved by all, he's also the lead plaintiff in the class action lawsuit against the contaminated chinese drywall that so many people had to take out of their home here after finally getting the ability to rebuild and then installing, without knowledge, drywall that would make them ill and ruin the copper coils in most of their appliances.
This is a shot of the fans before they went into the Dome today, taken by the local paper.
Just a little taste from last week's game. This does NOT mean that the devastation in Haiti has not been on everyone's mind here....so many of those images were reminders of what this town went through, but what Haiti has experienced is so much worse, it's hard just to even think about it. It's hard to comprehend. What keeps going through my mind is that I should be there trying to help. I speak French, am a project manager, and have lived without water and electricity for over a year. I could be of help there, I know I could. But I'm aware of my limitations enough right now to know that my mental state is too precarious to be depended on right now in that situation. So all I can do is donate, and watch, which is what I did for days after Katrina hit, and I felt so helpless at that time too.
Allright, y'all, it's officially the start of the Mardi Gras season! The Phunny Phorty Phellows Krewe commandeers one of the St. Charles Streetcars and takes a short ride letting everyone know that IT's ON! Sonji and I are making a tradition of catching this Krewe's parade, but this year it ended up being a much deeper pah-tay than expected, with many others joining in on the fun. The above is one of my photos, and the below photo is what it's like INside the streetcar (photo found on a website on the parade schedules). I hear a bunch of Krewe's have rescheduled their parades to fall outside of the Superbowl, in case the Saints are in it. And, the remaining few will DEFinitely reschedule if the Saints make it.
