The hubby & I took off a day of work, slept in and then hit the road this past Friday to go visit some of my very best friends that I met in undergrad at Mississippi State. The destination? Jackson, Mississippi...well pretty darn close to it.
We took a quick break in Starkville (the home of Mississippi State University) to grab lunch at The Grill (yummy steak on a stick) with a friend then headed south. We spent the weekend catching up, visiting and for three of the four of us girls, meeting each other's babies!
That's right, four women, three babies and a two-year-old all in one house (at least one of the days)! We ventured into Jackson for lunch at THE best place to get a gyro in town...Keifer's!!! It took two trucks and a LOT of organization to get there and needless to say...we were a sight parading through the extremely crowded Saturday lunch crowd to our 8-top table!
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| Caleb, Lily & Hadley waiting for the tables |
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| Beautiful salvaged stained glass windows |
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| Old doors from North Africa (left) and Cairo (right) |
Sunday we slept in and met another friend for lunch at Beagle Bagel in Madison and then headed northbound on the Natchez Trace toward home. It is an absolutely beautiful drive with many opportunities for sightseeing and tons of walking trails between Natchez, Mississippi & Nashville, Tennessee. As we passed Kosciusko (yep thats where Oprah's from) I began looking for the little white house in which my grandfather was born and raised, in Ehtel. You can actually see the old homestead from the Trace! It has been vacant for about 30 years but up until the last year or so the property has remained in our family. We stopped to look around and of course snap a few pictures!
My Daddy says that when he was a child, his parents would drive him and his sister all the way from Lepanto, Arkansas to Ehtel about once a year or so- most of the way on gravel roads!
I was told the story once about how during the depression my Granddaddy's parents were one of the few in the area that had a radio. I'm told that people once came from all over the county to sit and listen to the world series on this very same front porch!
The chimney says 1901- the year this chimney was added onto the house.
One of the outbuildings- there were several, one for canned goods and a root cellar. There also used to be an old barn on the property.
The old truck my Daddy's uncle drove. This is where he parked it and after he died it was never driven again. It is gone now but my Daddy took this picture a few years ago.
All in all it was a great weekend! When we arrived at home Caleb opened an early Christmas present from his Grandmommy- as you can see he loves it!
And finally...another ornament:
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