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Road Trip! Day 3 - Mississippi (Vicksburg)

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Our Sunday started pretty early. We were watching the weather for the week or so leading up to our trip and didn't know if our Sunday would go as we planned, but we wanted to try to continue with our plans despite it being a fairly yucky, gray, rainy day.

We got up early and had breakfast in the lobby. After breakfast we decided to head over to Vicksburg to visit the Vicksburg National Military Park. I have visited this park a few times before and wanted Steven to see it. Plus, I thought it might be fun to go over and have a look at the Old Vicksburg Bridge while we were over there and thought Kenzie might enjoy that. That also lets us show the kids the Mississippi River and let Steven see it in Mississippi (he has seen it in other states before, I think). The drive was uneventful. We left Kenzie in my parents' car again. That means we actually had a fairly peaceful drive as Will slept most of it and we didn't have anyone trying to play 20 questions with us.

When we got the the park it was still very gray but the rain had ceased. The downfall is that this ended up being the coldest weather we have been out in all season. It was actually colder when we left our house on Friday morning, but we didn't have to be outside in that. The military park is actually a drive and you can get out (you can also hike it so you don't have to be in a car) to see different things. We started at the information center where Joe made a few locals a bit angry... or annoyed... or something as he promptly declared that everyone in Mississippi must have a Vitamin D deficiency. To his defense... we hadn't seen the sun since Pensacola on Friday. Kenzie was lacking in appropriate clothing. What do you want from a true Florida girl? So, Nana found everything in her car that might work as clothing and put it on Kenzie. Poor kid. She looked ridiculous but I think she thought it was funny. We showed Kenzie the cannons and took a few pictures before getting back in the cars and starting the 16 (or maybe it was 18?) mile drive through the park.

I just... can't. This kid. 
Will is in there somewhere... 


Do i even need to tell everyone what Joe is doing? Would we expect anything
less from the man that offended everyone in the info station?

Steven and I enjoyed reading through the information provided at each marker along the way. Kenzie apparently spent a lot of time asking Nana and Papa why none of the men (bust statues) had arms or legs. Later she informed me that they had no arms, no legs, no bellies, and no belly buttons. Thanks, Papa for that. She is still talking about it and asked me this week why one of her Little People princesses also had no legs. Unfortunately, because of the cold and gray weather we didn't get great pictures and I refused to get out too often to take many other pictures.







After driving through the park we headed over to the the Old Vicksburg Bridge. The train happened to be crossing the bridge when we go there so Kenzie thought that was pretty cool. We went up to the higher point to take a few pictures (in the cold) before hopping back into the car and making our way to lunch. We had to try a few different places before we ended up at Shoneys. I had big plans to have this cajun inspired lunch but didn't take into account that it was a Sunday in a small town and most places were closed.





After lunch we went to my Aunt Susan's house to spend some time with family. Kenzie was able to play with Addy again and they had a great time. We spent a couple of hours there before heading back to the hotel. We had dinner and went back to the hotel so that we could start packing up in preparation for our return trip on Monday.




We spent a few hours in the hotel debating if we should leave early, leave late, or how we should handle our return drive because there was a call for freezing rain early on Monday morning. We eventually decided to tough it out and take our chances leaving about 7am (central time). As it turns out, the freezing rain was pushed back to the afternoon and it all worked out. That's a story for another time though. Stay tuned!
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