Natchez, Mississippi

On to Natchez, Mississippi

Finished up the coach’s “spa” treatment at the factory in Nacogdoshes Tx in one day……did not have to stay over to Monday…..so all of a sudden we found ourselves with an extra weekend. Now when has that ever happened before. So we headed up to Shreveport looking forward to yummy shrimp gumbo. However upon arrival, the Lexus….once disconnected from the coach…..was dead….again. We jumped the battery again and put a trickle charge on it. So we decided to stay in and have dinner rather than venture forth with iffy transportation.

This morning we took the Lexus into the Sears Diehard battery center---had it tested….again…..and again it passed the test. So we are sticking with it for a little while more.

Then on to the American Rose Society Garden………my expectations were totally off. I expected to see roses and roses and roses…….instead we saw pine trees and pine trees and pine trees interspersed with some small rose gardens. It really covered many acres. Unfortunately they had a very wet summer and the roses really suffered. So there were not too many in bloom. The few we saw looked and smelled wonderful. ( Another lady in our tour group put it another way......shekept saying “Dang, those roses sure stink pretty”. ) Our guide kept saying how the time to come is in the spring ....April 5^th-10^th. Who knew? Tiffany and Jeff could have given a better tour of the roses at their house!!

Now …since we have some "extra time"….we are veering off the path and heading towards Natchez Mississippi for their “Fall Pilgrimage” where they open up 24 antebellum mansions for tours and have evening entertainment……for a 2 week period. The show we will see tonight in the Natchez Little Theater is “Mississippi Medicine Show”…..with music of Stephen Foster, Jerome Kern, ….and will include spirituals and Civil War songs. Should be fun.

Coming into town through Louisiana and Mississippi I was amazed at the huge fields of cotton…..that went on and on and on. We are in a very pretty rv park …”Plantation Park” with huge trees all around. Dave has already met Warren who was born and raised in these parts.......and let us know that the Louisiana love- bug-----apparently the name of the bug of which we has many many samples on our windshield......needs to be washed off immediately otherwise if left on overnight these bugs leave a chemical that starts eating through the paint. Fortunately Dave had already washed ours off.

.....and now off to a fun evening.