New Orleans Day 4

Today was a very special day! Today was Miranda’s Sweet Sixteen! Our day was pretty chill. We got to sleep in a little later, if you consider 7:30 sleeping in. The first thing we got to do today was attend a Michigan only gathering. We spent the whole morning in a room full of Michiganders. We sang songs, had communion, and discussed our faith with our peers. We met a lot of new kids (AKA CUTE BOYS) and got closer to God. We unfortunately didn’t have time for the aquarium, but we are going to try our best to go another day (we will make it happen). After the Michigan gathering we spent a couple hours with about 150 postcards. After all the stickers, stamps, and postcards were finished our hands were dead. But we love everyone for helping us make this trip happen. Wow, did it storm today. The storm today was pretty intense. We could barely see out our windows and our phones beeped with storm alerts and flood watchings all day. After an hour or so it finally let up. We got to go out to dinner for Miranda’s birthday at the Hard Rock Café. The food was super yummy and Miranda got embarrassed a lot due to our obnoxious singing. After dinner we went to the superdome for the evening mass. The main speaker was a woman from Africa who had won the Nobel peace prize for ending a civil war in her country. The entire crowd of 33,309 people stood and swayed to the song “Hallelujah” as brilliant white balloons floated to the ceiling.  Some of us went to a dance when we returned from the dome and partied it up for Miranda’s B-day! It was an awesome day in New Orleans (as always) and we can’t wait for tomorrow!

Love Miranda and Nerissa