My first painting - New orleans, Louisiana

As part of official celebration of a project go live, we painted New Orleans logo at Corks n Canvas, Mandeville, LA

The picture i was drawing is a logo of New Orleans city, which is also used by many other such as New Orleans Saints.  

It was my very first paint. With instructor and wine along side, my first painting was a great memento of the project, people and #Louisiana.

LSU Campus @ Baton Rouge, LA

We visited LSU (Louisiana State University) Campus today. It was one of the best maintained campus that i have seen so far.

Beautiful LSU Campus @ Baton Rouge

Apart from beautiful surroundings, they have a live tiger which is their official mascot. Read all about that on Rishab's blog

Rebuilding together - New orleans

Chevron's XYZ network is working with Rebuilding together NGO to rebuild houses that were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Katrina was a category 5 (speeds up to 175 miles per hour) and killed close to 2000 people and left thousands homeless.
Before....
After...


I have never done any painting or labor work in my life before. India has labour that does all such work for a very affordable price, so i never had to work on any such tasks. Now was a chance to learn that and it was fun.

Our assignment was to continue working on an unfinished house. I learnt painting and also to cut plywood accurately to fit them on the exterior walls. Check out the photos above.


Although its quite a physical work, contributing like this once in a while makes us feel good that you are doing something for the society. The homeless family will remember.
Chevron also donated a large sum to rebuilding together foundation.

Mardi Gras - 2010

Yet another Mardi Gras season. This year we attended Mardi Gras in New orleans, Slidell, Mandeville & Covington. Undoubtedly New orleans hosts the biggest Mardi gras parades.

We attended Endemiyon in Mid-city. Indeed, its at much larger scale compared to Covington or Madeville. Whole new orleans gets filled with flood of cars during Mardi Gras. We attended following parades this year.

Eve in Madeville

Olympia in Covington

Dionysus of Slidell

Orpheus in Mandeville

Endymion in Mid-City

Lions in Covington

As always its a wonderful time to be in Louisiana during Mardi Gras season. Dont miss it if you happen to be in Southern part of America during February.