Life Update #5

     This is late, again... And I don't have any pictures from where we are staying, so this will have to do. These are the pictures from week two (June 25th to 30th -ish) We saw a lot of things and did a lot of things, all super fun.

We ate a ton of food here. It was probably some of the best fried
chicken I've ever had

Vicksburg!! This was really cool, even though you couldn't see
all the battlefields like they would've been. Trees have grown
(and have been planted) since then, so there were problems seeing
across the battlefields.

This is an ironclad ship - one of the first of it's kind - but it's
the Mississippi River version. It wasn't meant to go on the
ocean, and wouldn't survive long if it did.

Went here to check out a store some people from a show on HGTV
have. The show is called 'Home Town.' Super cute downtown
area.

And who doesn't love this??

The parsonage Martin Luther King, Jr. lived in (in Montgomery)
from 1954 to 1960.

At Tuskegee... Really interesting and very well put together.
I'd recommend it if you're ever in the area. We kinda had to
rush through it, which was a bit of a bummer...

This is at Andersonville, a Confederate prison from the Civil War.
There were horrific conditions and humans squished together like
sardines. Above are a bunch of Civil War time period graves of
soldiers who died here.

The prison was on the other side of the green strip of land (a
stream/marshy area) and then up the hill towards you.

This is a reconstruction of what part of the prison might of looked
like.

This is at Wormsloe in Georgia. Super beautiful, and a lot of cool
history. (I love history... Can you tell?)

I just got this for the part that says 'Charleston Tea Plantation.'

Here are a bunch of the tea bushes.

This is at Colonial Dorchester, a old colonial settlement that is
being excavated for ruins and artifacts.

U.S. Customs House in Charleston, SC. Really grand building.

Also in old Charleston, SC. Didn't get a whole bunch of pictures
cause it was hot, humid, and my feet really hurt. (I'm a wimp -
I know.) But it was cool!!

     And that's it for today! I will be at summer camp next week, so I probably won't post another one of these for another week or week and a half. Oh! Happy Fourth of July! :)