Southern Travel ♥

Tonight i got home from the trip! Of course i come home from the 80 degree weather to the 30 degree weather with snow on the way. Let me just tell you a little bit... or a lot.. about the trip :)

There was waffle houses on literally every single corner.... the GPS overloaded when we searched for one :)

Apparently southern people really love their waffles... :)

 we went down on the beach in mississippi, it was gorgeous. But the sea gulls were all evil and stuff... so Olivia chased them all away :) 

This is what happens when our mothers pick out clothes for us to try on.... =/

My new favorite fortune cookie :)

The beautiful beach and sunnnn ♥

This is our turtle we made and named after adam :)

Beachessss and palm treeeeeess :)

Another great thing was that everyone in the south seemed to think that my cousin was reese witherspoon... which made everything more fun! people asking for autographs and pictures and of course getting meals and everything else a hundred times faster :) Plus the looks on peoples faces when they saw her and when we jokingly called her reese :) It was greeeaat :)

When we went to Mississippi college the pre med professor threw a brain at adam... that was a surprise to everyone. i think that college got bonus points for that right there... the best part was that there was a surgeon who was on the tour with us cus his son was looking at the college and when he was holding the brain the surgeon dropped it... we were all shocked, then afraid ;) 

Okay, so everything in the south is fried or boiled. its insane. Fried fruit, fried salad, fried everything.... its ridiculously unhealthy... but amazingly delicious ♥

My family all ate fried alligator while we were there.... but i couldnt bring myself to eat such a thing... so i had a lot of chicken po boys instead :)

My aunt and my mom almost killed us all multiple times.... for some reason they found their elbows insanely funny and started tallking about "What if we didnt have elbows" then they started holding their arms out straight and wagging them back and forth screaming "ELBOWS!" while driving. then my mother ran over 14 curbs and my aunt ran over 3. my mom dented our car alot this trip. My mom also drove over 4 bushes because she didnt see them. My mom also drove into a ditch because she thought that it was a turn lane... no mom... im pretty sure thats a ditch...

Another thing i never thought about was that we always thought of other people being the ones with accents, but really, we have the accents to other people. so in the south, people kept making fun of our accents and one night while we were eating dinner a little girl asked her mom why we talked like the people on the t.v. (Which she asked with her southern accent)

now, most of the conversations i tell people that my family has, people simply cannot comprehend... me and my cousin have decided that its because we are just soo stinkin strange compared to everyone else. First off, my aunt and mother are both rather deaf. So they were sitting right next to each other when my mom started talking about lions in the coliseum. then my aunt said "did you just say the mien's in the coliseum?" and my mom said "No, not mimes!" This just demonstrates how strange and deaf they are. then olivia started a "when you were a baby" Joke session... here some examples of some of her jokes....

"When anna was a baby, she went poop... in her diaper!"
"When anna was a baby, mom put a paper bag over her head just to kiss her goodnight!"

"When anna was a baby... she pooped on her own face!"
"when anna was a baby she gave herself a wedgie just to see if it hurt!"
"When anna was a baby, everyone thought she was an earlobe!"
"when anna was a baby, someone peed on her!"
"when anna was a baby, she drowned!"
"when anna was a baby, she fell down the stairs! Like always!"

Etc. Etc. Which led to my aunt and mother and brother and sisters and cousin all telling "when you were a baby" Jokes. While we acted like penguins and drank or root beer.

Im very excited to say that i bought 4 pairs of boots and a winter coat for a total of 25 dollars on this trip... thats five dollars a piece! I found some great deals on this trip :)

My aunt likes to crack alot of lame jokes, which leads to my mom and my aunt who both seem to think theyre funny... not a good situation...

My aunt also found this trip as a great opportunity so say "Where not in Kansas anymore" As many times as it is humanly possible... 

The people in the south are sooo polite too. The guys are such gentlemen. It got to the point where when i got  to Missouri, i kept running into doors because i was so used to having someone who would run just so that i wouldn't have to open the door for myself, simply because they're such gentlemen! i know what your thinking, "anna is just using this as an excuse for running into doors..." But im nott! its truuuuue!

We went to the dollar store to get some cheap sunglasses because we lost ours somewhere on the trip. We kept driving till we found one and we ended up in a very very very ghetto area that we didnt necessarily feel safe in, but we decided to just quickly get in and out. so we went up to the door and they had to unlock it with a special button so we could come in... thats how bad an area it was...

When we got inside, there was a lady who had 3 one dollar bills taped to her chest. So we kinda laughed and then went, grabbed sunglasses, and got in line behind her. When she got up to the checkout counter she pulled the dollar bills off her chest, then she pulled her shirt up completely and started untaping more money from her stomach and chest... slightly confused and disturbed, we just waited in line... she finally checked out and was gone. what the story behind that was... i have no idea. 

I was actually pretty sad when we first got to the beach... theres oil everywhere. imagine how much sea life that has affected.... im praying ♥

also, even the elevators in the south have accents.... which i was amazed at. now i really want them to start installing southern elevators here :)