The day began with a select few who aspired to get up around 5 a.m. to eat beignets, which if you have never had eaten before is pretty much a fluffy doughnut with the texture of a funnel cake and covered with powdered sugar, at the Cafe du Monde. Absolutely worth getting up for; the cafe is open 24/7 and serves nothing but beignets and their special coffee served black or my personal favorite, Cafe au Lait.
Later that morning, we motivated the rest of the group to get up and started to transfer our items to the bus. Around the same time just a few blocks down an old gutted building was scheduled to be imploded at 8 a.m. and we were able to only see the small dust clouds rise above the city skyline. After we watched the implosion we head down for the last time to the Mercedes-Benz Superdome for worship and conclusion. The message was great and the communion was wild (all 38,000 were given communion)!
After the service, we hugged and embraced the friends that we meet had met and become closer to and left the majestic city of New Orleans. It saddened me that we were leaving but I was still happy to be heading home.
