In the highlight of her young life.

In the highlight of her young life, a photo session onward the White House lawn Monday with first lady Laura Bush, Lauren Durbin got chill feet.

"We were to such a degree cold," said Lauren, 12, of D'Iberville. "I couldn't be impressed my feet."

At a icy and rainy White House Easter encourage Roll Monday morning, Lauren and about 100 other children from Hurricane Katrina-affected areas along the whirlpool Coast each got the chance to talk with the first lady.

After an all-day bus ride from Biloxi and just discovered Orleans on Sunday, the children woke up at 6 a.m. for a bus tour of the national gravestones before descending on the White House.

The cluster sang a song to Mr Bush titled "Katrina's Kids."

But they were unable to participate in the encourage roll because of time constraints. That didn't bother greatest in number of the kids, though, who were