Driving to Tishomingo with the Car Packed FULL!
Today, we left for our honeymoon. After spending most of the morning packing, we left Aiken Village at about 11am, headed north. We stopped by Ryan’s parents’ house on the way to drop off Mr. Jim’s father’s day present. About noon, we were leaving West Point, headed for Tishomingo.
We got to Tupelo and Ryan graciously stopped by Belk with me to make some wedding gift exchanges. The Belk in Columbus has been out of green and yellow Fiesta dishes so we made some exchanges to totally complete my Fiesta dinnerware place settings and pick up a couple of much-needed items.
We're Here!
We arrived at Tishomingo State Park at about 3:30pm after taking only 1 wrong turn which was secondary to the Google map directions
telling us to go right when we should have gone left! We checked in and received our key for cabin number 4.
When we got to the cabin we unloaded the car, unpacked the ice chest, and just savored the first few moments of our honeymoon. We then decided to take some time to hike up to the old CCC cabin and pond down the road. We started off down the
road and used our map-reading skills to determine that we could take a trail to the cabin instead of the road. So, we took off down the trail, headed toward what we thought was the cabin. After hiking, stopping for many photos, and seeing the sights, we came upon a clearing. It was then that we realized that we took the wrong
direction down the trail which took us to the very opposite end of the park than where we were headed! Oh well – we really didn’t care because we enjoyed the journey as much as the destination! J We walked across the huge swinging bridge and then headed back to our cabin.
After running into innumerable spider webs along the trail, nothing felt better than a good hot shower at the cabin. After showering, we began to fix dinner, which consisted of hamburgers, French fries, and grilled peaches for dessert. Ryan got the grill going while I made the burgers and sliced the potatoes into fries. We ate on the
The Swinging Bridge
screened-in porch outside our cabin and no dinner has tasted better! We had fully-loaded burgers (mayo, mustard, ketchup, pickles, onions, tomatoes, lettuce, cheese, buns, and burgers), delicious fries, and then placed the peaches seasoned with butter, cinnamon, and sugar on the grill until tender.
After cleaning up from dinner, we went out on the screened-in porch to the swing, where Ryan read the Bible aloud and I fell asleep, rocking in his lap.