Girls trip to Natchez

Anna in our room at lovely Monmouth manor.

Cathy and I ready to head out to dinner at Monmouth.

Granny and Anna in the lounge as we were having our appetizers.

This bread pudding was the best that I have ever tasted!

Gourmet food is not terribly filling ;) It was tasty though!

The dining room at Monmouth.

The foyer of Monmouth mansion.

We enjoyed our stay at this beautiful antebellum home. It was built in 1818 and had a lot of history connected to it.

The room where we ate breakfast each day was beautifully decorated and the food was delicious!

One of the first homes we toured was Longwood. It was a huge home started just 18 months before the civil war started

Longwood was almost completed on the outside when the Civil War began, but only the first floor was done on the inside. The workers just left their tools and never returned. The house is virtually unchanged in over 150 years!! They never finished the upper floors of the interior.

Longwood from the front lawn. The outside is just breathtaking. The bottom floor is nice as well (10,000 square feet), but the upper floors are just shells. We could not take pictures on the bottom floor, but it was nice!

Longwood is the largest octagonal home in the US.

Anna and I enjoying the tour of homes!

This is Stanton Hall in downtown Natchez. This was a beautiful home where the mini series North and South was filmed.

Longwood was the favorite of all the homes we toured this year! Mom loved Natchez and so we plan to go back next year. We look forward to touring some of the other homes next year.

I am so thankful to our Great God for such a great relationship with my Mom, Sister and oldest daughter. We had such a fun trip talking, laughing, remembering old times and acting silly. Mom would sometimes lose patience with Cathy and I and our schemes :) Ask Anna about the fan signals.

The first thing we did after we arrived in Natchez was to promptly check OUT of our first bed and breakfast. I chose it based on the looks from the outside. It was a huge, gorgeous mansion! BUT, unfortunately, when we saw our room, we were disappointed. We found a few dead bugs and one favored a BED BUG! We were mortified and as Mom lay down to rest a bit we headed down to see if they would let us cancel our reservation. Surprisingly they did and we scurried to find another place. I took a chance and called the nicest B&B in Natchez and they had 2 deluxe suites available. But OH, the rates were sky high. Then he said that if we came in right away he would give us the walk in rate which was only a tad higher than the roach motel, so we jumped on the chance. Monmouth was soooo nice and the owners were very sweet as well. The wife, Lani, is a Christian and was so cordial and welcoming. We will probably stay here in the future!

My next few posts will be in backwards order. I am going to start with the most recent and go back awhile. I hope to post about our end of the year party with coop, Spartan get together, ornament making get together with the Chamblees, making gifts for the neighbors and of course, Christmas Day!