petrified forest, haunted bridge + the White Cliffs of Epes, AL [day 2]

talk about hole in the wall place to eat...i liked it xD

 

boiled peanuts = actually rlyy good!!!

it's a haunted bridge yall

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might just be my new profile pic..? 

ALABAMA HAYBALES!! 

DAY TWO!!!

 this post has been a long time coming, wifi has been awful, we had vbs, we've been sick..just all the stuff. x|

DAY 2 WAS JUST SO VERY FANTASTICAL. <333 
we left the glorious belmont plantation after a wonderful breakfast and chatting with ms. Camille, and we set off on an adventure! 
very first, we went to the petrified forest. it was pretty cool!! 
then we ate at Crawdad hole. Yeahhh, that was fun!! when we first walked into the shack-above-dirty-concrete-with-sooo many signs-plastered-on-the-wall 'place'...the guy was like "yall are first timers aren't ya?" so we both got gumbo cuz we were starving, and ate it on a plastic table. they turned on some fans for us and the gumbo was good. overall realllyy nice people..but our mom would never eat there!!
we left and ended up at Stuckey's bridge. (go look it up!) we survived walking across it and it was pretty cool. sooooo HOT!! 
theenn, we were only 45 mins from the White Cliffs of Epes, ALABAMA!!! it was so amazing!! i loved every second there. yet, there was like this hovering sadness, bc we were IN ALABAMA, and we wouldn't have been able to see the amazing Hannah Hobbs!! i thought about trying to contact her thru ashley's phone, but we wouldn't have had enough time and.. yeah. that was really sad. i can't believe we've been to alabama tho!! sometime we're gonna have to plan a BIRMINGHAM trip cuz i wanna meet her so bad!! (hannah, you're awesome ;D)
so then we headed back to greenville, the 4 hour trip back to a super awful hotel went so slow. and then when we finally got to the hotel it was...scary. it was a day filled with so many new experiences, and overall the true southern experience!!
our second day in MS (+AL) was amazing!!
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thank yall for being so nice and patient while i get all my crazy stuff together. xD life is flying by, and i need to learn how to balance computer time, and family time. (and school time and riding and baking and etc etc xD) 

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what yall been up to?

pros + cons of blogging [my opinion]

PROS:

• a place to share pictures and randomness
• meeting new people, and from all countries
• finding Christians and homeschoolers, etc
• a place to get or give advice (sometimes)
• super sweet people

CONS:

• the time and effort it can take
• not able to be yourself/don't know how
• comparing your life with others
• not being able to relate with others 
• lots of half-friendships, or fake friends

I've def met some really amazing people thru blogger! the thing is.. i haven't really MET them. The Girl Defined sisters explained it well in the beginning of a video >>

did you watch some of that? i only watched the starting there, and it reallllyy put into words what i've been thinking. About how we have several friends online, but it's nothing like a real life friendship. 

so while blogging is great, and we can lift people up, pray for them, etc, we'll still not really know them. 

I started blogging bc I wanted to be like my big sister, Ashley. Soon after, I found that it was merely a wonderful way to share my pictures, and such. (and still is!) Now I blog bc 1) i would feel bad if i didn't 2) i have some awesome friendzies 3) i enjoy sharing pictures, and posting about adventures 4) i love looking back on memories 5) it is one way to try to make a difference.

and my online shop thing is really great too. <3

Why did you start blogging? 
Pros and cons in your opinion??