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Well, we're safely ensconced in our little motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, in an area called Germantown, which is apparently famous for some annual equestrian event, as indicated by the colorful, whimisically-painted sculptures of horses placed at various intersections. Conrad has been handling hotel life pretty well, although he didn't let us get much sleep on the first night, because he had to bark at every individual who got ice from the ice machine right outside our door (why they needed ice at two and three in the morning is beyond me - these people just love their damn ice); he still cut up a little last night, but he was much better and I was able to catch a nap today, so I'm not dragging quite as badly.
My cousin's twenty-first birthday was August thirty-first, but since we were in the middle of our New Orleans-to-Memphis caravan we went out last night instead, for barbecue at the original Corky's location; I don't really like barbecue, but you've got to have barbecue at least once whenever you visit Memphis and the baked beans were delicious. While we were at their house yesterday Katie showed us some of her pictures from her school trip to Lagos, Nigeria, which were quite interesting. She's involved in a project for Princeton that sends a group of students to different countries around the world to help a village in the area set up a ceramic water filter factory; last summer she worked on the same project in a village in Nicaragua.
My aunt Karen put me in touch with a very nice woman who runs a ferret shelter here in Tennesee, about forty-five minutes away from our hotel, so we're going to pay her a visit this evening to have a look at her operation and to surrender Spooky and Trixie if I find it suitable; I spoke to her for about forty minutes yesterday, so I feel confident that her shelter will provide a good solution for us, but I still need to see it for myself before I can give up my stinky minkies and she understands that, which is additionally reassuring.
We still don't know when we'll be able to go home, but we do know that New Orleans fared pretty well and Yvette drove by my parents' house and reports that it looks like it's in great shape. I don't think our neighborhood saw any flooding, because our area wasn't mentioned at all on CNN or the Weather Channel, but I'm sure it's still without power. We still have this room reserved for a couple more days and we can extend our reservation if that becomes necessary, although we may have to change rooms, but that's fine.
My cousin's twenty-first birthday was August thirty-first, but since we were in the middle of our New Orleans-to-Memphis caravan we went out last night instead, for barbecue at the original Corky's location; I don't really like barbecue, but you've got to have barbecue at least once whenever you visit Memphis and the baked beans were delicious. While we were at their house yesterday Katie showed us some of her pictures from her school trip to Lagos, Nigeria, which were quite interesting. She's involved in a project for Princeton that sends a group of students to different countries around the world to help a village in the area set up a ceramic water filter factory; last summer she worked on the same project in a village in Nicaragua.
My aunt Karen put me in touch with a very nice woman who runs a ferret shelter here in Tennesee, about forty-five minutes away from our hotel, so we're going to pay her a visit this evening to have a look at her operation and to surrender Spooky and Trixie if I find it suitable; I spoke to her for about forty minutes yesterday, so I feel confident that her shelter will provide a good solution for us, but I still need to see it for myself before I can give up my stinky minkies and she understands that, which is additionally reassuring.
We still don't know when we'll be able to go home, but we do know that New Orleans fared pretty well and Yvette drove by my parents' house and reports that it looks like it's in great shape. I don't think our neighborhood saw any flooding, because our area wasn't mentioned at all on CNN or the Weather Channel, but I'm sure it's still without power. We still have this room reserved for a couple more days and we can extend our reservation if that becomes necessary, although we may have to change rooms, but that's fine.
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