Louisiana, NFL Week 1 & 9/11

This past weekend I was in Louisiana on business.  One year removed from hurricane Katrina and there’s still a lot of damage to be cleaned up.  Here’s a summary of my trip:

Saturday:

Almost missed the flight because of traffic on the way to the airport.  Got there 40 minutes before take-off only to be told you can’t check luggage if you don’t arrive 45 minutes before take-off.  Had to buy another ticket to send my luggage, but made it on the original flight.  drove an hour to drop a co-worker off at a meeting, then drove an hour back to the airport to get the luggage, then drove an hour back to the meeting.  Attended a cool worship service saturday night, then had dinner, and chilled out watching college football before bed.

 Sunday:

Attended church in the morning, went out to lunch, surveyed all day, then grabbed dinner at sonic burger and watched the manning bowl.  sonic burger has really good fruit smoothies – wish they had them here.  The manning bowl was good, the giants look good, but the colts were a little better that night – however, it was penalties that killed the giants.  My favorite play was the Plexico Burress jump ball in the endzone. 

Monday:

Another meeting, then a quick survey of destruction in New Orleans, and then the flight home.  Watched a couple of Lost episodes before heading to bed to prepare for work the next day.  Lost is an amazing show.

Ok, that was my weekend trip.  My fantasy team did well this week, I won both my games.  Hopefully I can keep that up.  My biggest mistake was not playing Heath Miller over Algae Crumpler.  I think Miller will have a break-out year. 

As we all know, this year was the five year anniversary of 9/11.  It seems that a lot of people have forgotten what happened that day and what it meant for our country and the feelings we all shared on September 12.  That being said, I really appreciate all of those who do remember and the media outlets that paid tribute to the events of that day.