Okay, I'm going to pull a "skip" card out of the uno deck for this week's post for reading "What is the gospel?" together... Having Monday off should've helped me get it done but instead it threw me off kilter. haha! So I'll post about Chapter 5 next week. Sorry for the delay, but I hope this will give you a breather as well. :)
And guess what!??! We had more visitors this past weekend! I wanted to announce it sooner since we were so excited about them coming, but I decided to keep it hush, hush since I don't like advertising when friends/family will be leaving their homes to see us... it's just a safety thing, you know?
Anyway, my dad (Steve) and stepmom (Susie) along with Susie's cousin (Suzi, who's really more like a sister to Susie) and her husband (Doug) came and visited us! As you may recall, this wasn't Enoch's first time to see all of them together.. We all went to the Art Museum a while back as well, which was quite fun! (you can read about that here)
For this trip, they took advantage of the holiday and drove down all day Friday, stayed through Sunday and then visited Memphis a bit on their way back on Monday. We enjoyed their visit so much!! I wish I had more photos, but it's just hard to take them when you're out having fun... ;) Here's a run-down of what all we did do though:
On Friday night, we all met up at an incredibly good local restaurant in West Point, MS (the town where their hotel was). They served us up some legit southern cooking and great hospitality! Then, on Saturday while Enoch napped, Dad & Doug visited an antique car show while Susie & Suzi visited a local (yet huge) craft fair in downtown West Point. After Enoch's nap, we all joined up and went to see this amazing antebellum home outside of West Point. It was stunning! Built in the 1850s and although vacant for approximately 50 years, still intact enough for our tour guide's parents to restore it in the 1960s. (You can read more about it here, and you should because it's an interesting place! Robert Snow's daughter was our guide, and she did a superb job!)
This was a HUGE southern magnolia tree we spotted as we approached the mansion (which you can see in the photo below on the left side). The tour guide told us it's the oldest S magnolia in the state (or maybe even the nation???) coming in between 250 and 300 years old! So of course we had to get a group photo! (from the left to right: Steve, Suzi, Susie, Enoch, Doug)
This is Waverley Mansion. It's a 4 story beauty (the 3rd story doesn't have windows, so it's hard to see). They've done an excellent job preserving/restoring it and also filling it full of beautiful antique decor and furnishings. And believe it or not, the tour guide and her father (the man who restored this starting back in the 60's) still live there today! They sleep on the antique beds and use the delicate china to eat with! And they do it all without A/C in these MS summers. I was pretty impressed! But one of the cool things about the mansion that makes this possible is that the center circular part that rises high and makes the 3rd and 4th stories creates a chimney effect so that the heat rises and pulls in the cooler air into the downstairs rooms through the windows. That's some cool architecture, huh?
And even though we weren't allowed to take any photos inside the mansion, our tour guide (Miss Snow) took a liking to Enoch, and she encouraged us to put him on one of the beds and snap a picture. Cute, huh?
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