It's a boy/girl thing!

This weekend I took a road trip to Oxford, MS. It was weird to go to Mississippi without my family and without seeing my grandparents and cousins! I took this road trip so that I could see the two girls I worked with in the Philippines this summer: Cameron and Sarah.

Cameron is from Raleigh, North Carolina. She is the one that is 5 ft 2 inches tall (like me) with short brown hair. She is definitely one of those excited about life kind of people. I decided after this summer and weekend that I need to be around those kinds of people more! It is good for me! It helps me get more excited about life! Cameron arrived in Toccoa on Thursday night. Her coming here was definitely wonderful! I got more excited to see her and Sarah than I have been in a long time about anything!

We left at 10 the next morning and headed to Oxford. Thank goodness for my Garmin Nuvi that I got for my birthday. It definitely helped us get there! It was a funny trip down there. Cameron had never been to Alabama or Mississippi. In my mind, she might as well have been on her way back to the Philippines with as much excitement as this brought on. I didn't know Alabama could inspire such excitement. It was really entertaining. Mississippi of course, is warm to my heart but most people find it repulsive, not Cameron. She thought it was "so beautiful". ha.

We got to Sarah's house around 4:15 that evening. She lives in a little red house off of 334 in Oxford. That night she took us on a tour of the Ole Miss campus (it looked a little different to me than I had remmebered from growing up going to the football games there). We also got a tour of the square, which is apparently the big thing in Oxford. They modeled the town after Oxford, England and so they have red telephone booths and a double decker bus downtown. It was kind of neat. It is definitely a cute little town. Lizzy Gray (a girl I got to know this summer) was coming down to meet us. So, we ended up killing time by taking a bunch of pictures, eating a snack at a cute little coffee shop, and looking in the little shops on the square.

We got the recipe for chicken adobo (a very good Filipino dish) and decided we would make it together. Sarah has all these cute little aprons so we put them on and cooked our dinner together. It was a lot of fun. Lizzy finally got there around 8:45 and we ate dinner. It was very good! The rest of the night we watched a ridiculous movie we saw together in the PHilippines again and then went to bed.

On Saturday we got up early and went to eat breakfast at the Bottletree Bakery. Sarah said we couldn't come stay with her without eating there. They did have really good food and coffee. We enjoyed talking to each other and stuff. Lizzy's friend and boyfriend came up to help her look for an apartment, so after breakfast they left. We went to three different places looking for kites (it was a really windy day and we wanted to fly some). We finally found some at Wal-Mart. Cameron also found a bubble wand. haha. It looked like a lite sabre. I had never seen one of those things before. We took the kites over to Lake Patsy (which is more like a bigger pond than it is a lake). We took our blanket with us and put it on the ground in between these three hills. It was like 70 degrees so it wad definitely warm enough to be hanging out outside. We flew our kites for a while and ran up and down the hills with them. Later I saw two eight year old boys doing the exact same thing...ha. We also played around with the bubbles and took lots of pictures.

In my opinion, we could do absolutely nothing together and still have an amazing time. That's probably because we got to know each other in the Philippines where there is nothing to do! If you can have fun with someone when there is absolutely nothing to do, then you can have fun with them anywhere doing anything! That is the good thing about our friendship. we genuinely know each other. When we get together it feels like we never left and we can talk to one another about anything, not just the Philippines.

After the lake, we went over to William Faukner's house (Sarah said we had to do all the main things in Oxford while we were there). It was really pretty. We ended up taking even more pictures, which was fun.

We ate lunch at 3:30 at this place called Catfish One. It is a little shack on the side of the road, the typical Mississippi place to eat. There wasn't an inside, just outside picnic benches. They had stuffed crab, catfish, fried pickles, chicken strips, etc.. I was really excited about the fried pickles! The catfish was really good too!I was a little bit surprised!

AFter that we headed back to Sarah's house to hang out. Apparently there is a room in the attic with a window to the roof. So, we went out on the roof and looked out over the land near her house. We also had our own little dance party up there. It was kind of fun.

That night we watched a movie and then Sarah invited a bunch of people from Nehemiah teams this summer to come hang out. most of them live around Oxford. So, we played some Play Station 2 and caught up on their lives. It was fun! I was exhausted though by the time we went to bed because I am still sick with whatever is going around. "The killer cold" lasts like ten days or longer! It's ridiculous!

It was sad to say goodbye yesterday morning. Me and Cameron left around 8:00 so that She could get back at a reasonable hour. We ate breakfast in Tupelo at the world's slowest McDonalds, so it took us a little bit longer to get back than we had imagined.

I had a lot of fun hanging out with them though! WE always have a lot of fun together. I wish we didn't live so far apart. But, we are planning our next outing for this summer! Sarah is trying to talk me into going to seminary in New Orleans so I can live with her and Cameron is trying to talk me into going to Southeastern so I will be near her! Lol. It'd be fun if we could all live in the same place!

Here are some pictures from our roadtrip: