But before I go... SMP 2008

Summer Mission Project (a.k.a. my annual Habitat for Humanity trip) is next week so before I take my little Internet "summer vacation", I may have one or two posts before I go since I like sharing this info. (Selfish in someway, yes?)

This year we are headed to New Orleans. As you can imagine, they are still in the process of recovering from hurricane Katrina and while much progress has been made, a ton of work remains to be completed. Our trip planning committee has talked about making this our destination for the past two years but it has taken this long for most locations to switch over from "clean-up" mode to "build" mode and lift some of the "18 and over" age restrictions. (We take youth as young as 16.) We fly out of National on Saturday morning at 8:30am (5am wake-up, ugh.) and return next Saturday, the 28th.

Work will take place in the St. Bernard Parish located just southeast of New Orleans (below the Lower Ninth). For more background on where we will be, check out this page on the Habitat for Humanity site.

btw, I may have just broken my own personal record for parenthesis used in a blog post.