It was near 5:30 when I woke up this morning. It was cool downstairs and I turned the electric fireplace up to try and warm up. I keep a flannel shirt hanging in the bedroom before I go to bed so I can grab it when I get up, knowing it will be cooler downstairs (high ceilings) than it is in the bedroom. We do keep the heat down fairly low, although only to 70 last night, as the temperatures here were around 34 over night - much lower than we care to be in.
Dean was up not too long after me. About 7 he wanted to know if we were going to walk. When he said it was still around 34 and the wind was blowing that did it for me. I don't mind the 34 (you warm up fast) but with the wind blowing, and off of cold, cold water - no thanks!
I did one last load of clothes (and to think yesterday, I thought I was done), ate breakfast and washed the dishes, all before I started working on the blog from yesterday. I do love the sightseeing but Saturday was almost overload with all the things we saw and then trying to share it.
We had another small bowl of chili for lunch and an apple. I have to say the warm chili really is nice in this cool weather even if we have had it every day since I made it. One more time and it's gone!
Here are a few pictures I took of the water level here in the park as we left (12:45p) - it came up some more overnight; but it's still not near our sites.
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After lunch we decided to re-drive the Hop On/Hop Off Bus Route so I could take some more pictures. It didn't prove to be a lot of help. You can see much better from the top of that bus than you do sitting in a truck that sets a lot lower.
But here are the few I managed to get:
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| Monmouth Plantation |
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| St. Mary Basilica, Natchez, MS - a beautiful structure |
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| We planned to tour the Catholic Church today but it was closed on Monday's to tours. |
Choctaw Hall - 1836
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| Front |
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| Back |
Another site we wanted to visit was the Natchez, MS cemetery. Natchez is one of the oldest European settlements in Mississippi, so there is an immense history here. Again, I'm going to provide a link if anyone wants to know more about it.
As morbid as it may seem to some, we do enjoy visiting cemeteries and with the history of this particular one we were looking forward to it. I have to admit the weather today was windy and the cold wind was chilling when I was out taking pictures. As I mentioned before I do not have a real heavy coat with me so I was not able to spend as much time looking around as I would have liked to. Here is what I found:
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| These are crepe myrtle's and I can only imagine how beautiful this road will be when they are in full bloom. |
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| Map of the cemetery |
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| Learned Mausoleum - very ornate |
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| Rufus E. Case I learned about this grave site in a blog I found - Rufus was buried sitting in his rocking chair facing his home state of Louisiana. |
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| Thy will, not mind, O Lord. |
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| Richard Ellis - born August 1800, died 1862. He would have been 60-61 when the Civil War started. We wonder if he died in the war. |
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| This live oak was gorgeous! |
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| Turning Angel - there were a total of 5 stones laid out in front. I didn't realize until I looked at these closer the three in the photo died the same day, March 14, 1905. They ranged in age from 13 to 19. They all have a different last name. |
This the last grave stone we found before leaving:
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| LOUISE The Unfortunate |
What a strange thing to put on a gravestone. Again, I had to google this to see if I could find out anything and this is what I found.
As we were getting ready to leave the cemetery we noticed a white Ford truck coming down the road one over from us. I asked Dean, "Is that Alvin?" Sure enough, it was. I gave them the map I picked up at the office so they could use it, since I had taken a picture of it.
As we were driving back I asked Dean if he wanted to go eat somewhere tonight. He said he'd like to, so I sent Drena and Keith a text to see if they wanted to go with us. They did and Drena got in touch with Alvin and Linda to see if they too would like to go, as well as Cindy. Mel and Rhonda did not go. We all met at Johnnie Mae's - a restaurant that Alvin and Linda ate at last night with Mel and Rhonda. It sounded so good, we had to give it a try before we left.
Dean and I ordered Sausage and Red Bean Boudin Balls for an appetizer to share with everyone, but they were out of them. We were pretty disappointed!
I ended up ordereing 4 small pieces of fried catfish, and a side salad. Dean had chicken fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy and a salad. Our meals were very good. I was cold so I also ordered coffee. We enjoyed visiting with everyone. Cindy, Drena and I set facing windows where we watched a number of birds in the trees. Several ordered the peach and cream bread pudding and I took ONE bite of Dean's. It was delicious and I sure would have liked to have eaten at least 1/2 of it.
I had stopped at the office before we left the RV park to see if I had received any mail. Last Thursday afternoon I had called to have a prescription refilled that I need by this Thursday (March 7). The park office staff called me while we were at the restaurant to let me know it did not come in. I called the pharmacy to see when it had been mailed - what I found out was that even though I asked it to be sent to the address of the RV Park where we are currently staying, they sent it to our Pittsburg mailing address, and it has been delivered there.
I will need to check with the next park where we will be staying to see if they allow us to receive mail at the park or not. If they do not, I'll have to see if it can be sent General Delivery to the Post Office where we will be located. Then I can call UPS to have it shipped to me at the appropriate place. I hope when I see the doctor in a few weeks he will authorize me to order my prescriptions two weeks prior to when I need them (rather than one week) so I can have it sent to our regular mailing address and then they can ship all of our mail to us at once to prevent this type of thing from happening again.
It's a little blip in the big picture of life though - right?
It was another GREAT day!
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