we woke this morning with plans to visit some interesting places in vicksburg, mississippi then get on the road headed to georgia. i picked the places on interest for vicksburg and liked my choices. we visited the martha vick house which is the refurbished home of the founders of vicksburg, the vick family [figure that]. she was the eldest daughter when her parents died [she was 18] and helped to raise her 12 other brother and sisters. she never married though. the man who gave us the tour was a very nice elderly man who actually rebuilt the house and put everything in it and lives there. he was very very nice and it was a rather educational [but cool] tour.
after the martha vick house we went to the vicksburg national military park. i failed to mention earlier that the city of vicksburg is filled with military remembrance. there are cannons all over. the park was soo cool. they had a bunch of memorials and such for both the confederacy and union along with markers on the ACTUAL BATTLEFIELD!! it was really cool. me and my mom gots picks on some of the gigantic momuments. appearently illinois sent ALOT of people lol. it sounds dorky but alot of history happened there and it was cool to see where it actually happened. the whole thing is a drivethru type tour where you drive yourself and can stop where you want. they also had a soldiers graveyard. over 17000 graves and 13000 were unknown. isnt that sad? they didnt even put them in caskets, they just threw the bodies in the ground and most are marked with blocks of stone with a number on them. its sad to think that ALL those people died and we wont ever know who they were. it was a neat experience.
on the road again!
we stopped for lunch in jackson, mississippi for lunch at cracker barrel yumm. back to driving. it was sooo boring and my mom had taken over my nintendo ds to play yoshi so all i had was my ipod. i slept a bit. we stopped somewhere in alabama for snacks then we back on our way. it was an exhausting drive from vicksburg to atlanta and [not including stops] took about 7 hours maybe? its over 400 miles if that gives you a better picture. it was so boring...so i started to text cameron. our hotel is...okay. king bed with pull out twin bed in the couch and we got a rollaway bed. i get the least comfortable couch :P good news is that tonight me and my mom both took sleeping pills so the chainsaw across the room shouldnt be as bad. :]
grandma has big plans for tomorrow. goodnight from atlanta, georgia
No comments:
Post a Comment