Day 45 "Bonus Day!" 11-28-14

We consider this as a vacation day because we would be just leaving New Orleans if not for the ECOS award Laurie is being honored with. We stirred slowly back at home but were moving after 9 AM. There was no food or clean clothes to speak of in the house so we started out with coffee at Weatherstone’s. We continued biking and went to the Arden Mall and discovered new bike racks just where we needed them. We set out looking for some good clothing for Laurie to accept an award in. That worked out and our good luck continued when the car valet staff kept someone from messing with our locked bikes outside.


Laurie is “not” a good clothes shopper…

The rest of the day went quickly and on little food or drink. We were joined by Elle and the little guys and all bicycled down to the event about 5:30 PM. There we found live music, snacks and refreshments and well over 100 people already. There were quite a few friends and some family there to wish Laurie well too. Before we knew it, Laurie got a great introduction and was up giving a motivating acceptance speech. We were all very proud of her and know how hard she works to make the world better. She was quite surprised to be told she was getting this award just before we left on the trip and certainly had it on her mind as we traveled too. After the event ended we were soon biking back home in the cool dark. Now we can slow down and begin to rest with little reserve remaining, just like we planned it.


Her special cheering section came along to see “Nama” get an award!


The awards were great looking too


A table of excellent family support was ready to applaud


Laurie was a little nervous getting lots of good attention


Surrounded by her excellent introduction crew


Laurie provided some great encouragement and thanks while challenging us all to find our passion and “own it”!


Footnote: It has been a bit harder than expected to find the right balance of rest and chores these last couple of days as we have both felt fragile and shaky at times. In between, we go out and get our errands done like food shopping and picking up 6+ weeks of mail.

No parking hassles at the Coop and we can carry lots of good food home

At the PO before we picked up 6 weeks of mail and a box sent home during the trip