Thank you, Brooke for posting some pictures from the Brown trip to check on the (extended) Brown family. We had a great visit to Houston, inaugurating the pool and hot tub for the season, eating shrimp and crab, dinner with Paul, Vicki and Johanna at Ann and Charlie's, taking in a lecture and Sargeant and Prendergast exhibits at the museum as well as a terrific La Bayadere at the Houston ballet - and happily, a few games of Bananagrams. We said good bye (forever, I guess) to Raintree Circle and moved on to NOLA where E and B are making great progress on their house, though we passed up the opportunity to climb the ladder and sleep with Caladea in favor of the bed & breakfast which is Brooke's first picture - a five minute walk from their house. There are new bookshelves and a general feeling of progress being made at 3218 Dumaine. We had a nice canoe trip on the bayou - as pictured - saw the dreaded -or dreadful - styrofoam alligator, heard some music and ate some French Quarter food, then back to the airport in time to get to a Crescendo rehearsal (Does anyone want tix for the concert on April 17th or 18th? All Latin Amereican music spanning 5 centuries with cool percussion instruments?) and finally home. A mini-vacation, to be sure, but it did the job.