March 27, 2009
Can you believe that we have been married for 10 years? We can't. It seems like it was yesterday that I was graduating from FSU and planning the wedding during student teaching. Time flys as we get older.
We actually have not been able to get away, alone, in 4 years- and I mean for any occasion. So this special year we decided to take a trip. We chose Natchez, Mississippi. Why? A few people had told us that it was a beautiful town with a lot of amazing history to it. We stayed in a bed and breakfast there called "The Burn," which was built in the 1830s. We stayed in a room called The Lucy. It was the school room in the house. Kind of weird and pretty at the same time. The lady had said that this house was the first house to have a cement foundation at the time. When union forces commandeered the house during the war, they actually used this floor of the house as their stable? Yeah, kind of weird to disrespect someone's house like that.
To give you a little something extra, the whole area of Natchez was filled with millionaires before Civil War times. Many of which were multi-cotton plantation owners. When the war began a deal was made with the North that the North would not plunder the houses, but to leave them preserved. To this day, they are exactly as they were left. Even one of the houses you will see, which looks like an Asian palace, was left unfinished because the construction workers were Northerners and they left immediately when word of the war came out- literally left their tools in the spots they are today. They never returned again. The owner of the house was never able to finish because life as he knew it was over.
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