Summer Vacation

by - Tuesday, July 26, 2011



I have been really bad about updating lately. I will do my best to try to keep up with blogging better!! During the week of the 4th we left Starkville and headed to Georgia for a visit with the Arnold's. During our time there we ate some yummy food and played games. We also headed to Alabama to have dinner with the Andrew's. After a few days of rest in Georgia we headed north to home where we spent 6 days with family and friends catching up and making new memories. We ate at several of my favorite restaurants and got to see a lot of people that I had been missing. Mike enjoyed fishing and shooting with the guys while I enjoyed girl talk and hanging out with the girls! Since moving away, visiting home is like a party! Non-stop visiting and eating and I wouldn't change one thing about it! The week ended with Sallee Anne's wedding!! It was such an honor to stand up there with her closest friends and family as she said I do! Of course I couldn't help but to shed a few tears as I realized that we were no longer those crazy teenage girls running around town making fools of ourselves but we were fully grown women who are old enough to get married and start a family! I know I sound crazy as I am almost 26 years old but most of the time I feel like I am playing adult rather than actually being one. That was one of those moments when you realize that part of your life is no more. But I didn't cry because of sadness but because of happiness and the notion that our lives are forever changed but it's a good thing! Growing up is bittersweet but I never been happier than I am now and that shows me that I am headed down the right path! As we embark on these (hopefully) last few months in Mississippi I want to try to ensure that we both get the very most we can out of this experience before we move on and start a new and exciting chapter in our lives. With that said I think this fall will be our most exciting time here in Starkville and I plan on taking full advantage of my time here!
Us with the Bride and Groom aka the Moon's
Summer, Sallee Anne and I
Us with the Odom's

Last weekend Mike and I attended the Neshoba County Fair in Philadelphia, MS. Although it wasn't the City of Brotherly Love we did experience some of that famous southern hospitality! We had done a bit of research on the fair before we went to see just exactly we were getting into but nothing could prepare us for the real thing. The fair is the towns yearly main event. According to the locals they plan all year for it and it only lasts a week! At this fairground there was a horse track, midway and over 600+ quaint and colorful cabins that families own and stay in only during the week of the fair. These cabins are coveted to all that do not own one and it is almost impossible to ever buy one because they are passed down through generations. But when one does go up for sale it comes at a price, we heard of one being sold for $130,000 and other for $500,000!! The fair is a huge deal here in Mississippi as people travel from miles around to take part in the festivities! I am glad we got to experience this as we will never see anything like it ever again! Before we headed home we stopped by the Chotaw Indian reservation casinos because we had never been there. We both allotted ourselves $10 to play and we ended up coming out ahead. Mike ended up winning $10.75 and I won $36.75  that we promptly cashed in! We ended the day with a meal at Old Venice and by watching One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.


Post Office
Cabins

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2 comments

  1. It sounds like an amazing summer if you ask me. And as far as I am concerned we are still just playing grown up, it;s a state of mind and if you accept it you are officially dull! My mom always said she loved "one flew over the coo coo's nest, was it good? Now I think I have to see it!

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  2. Meghan, it was pretty good and disturbing. We watched it streaming on Netflix. Yea and I don't plan on becoming dull anytime soon, well really never!

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