Day #2- The Thunder Rolls...

...and the lightning strikes!  That's my song for today.  Well,  for the second half. 
Our main scheduled activity for today was Myrtle's Plantation.   We got up and on the road at a decent hour.  We stopped for breakfast at Shoneys and had an old lady try to hitch a ride with us when we left.  Umm, nope.  She wasnt pleased, so she spit.  🤔 
Since I was driving,  Loren couldnt put up much of a fight when I wanted to stop at the alligator farm tourist stop.  He ended up loving it, too!  We got to hold a baby gator named Ethel.   Her toenails were painted red and she kept a close eye on Loren.  She may have thought he was her mama.  He scratched under her chin and rubbed her belly.  I'm not sure, but he may have thought she was just an ugly dog.  A bunch of rowdy kids came in and I was worried about Ethel, but I bet she could take a finger off if the kids scared her too much.
Myrtle's Plantation has quite the violent past and has been investigated by many paranormal groups.  I do my research and knew the stories.  While I can not say that we had any tangible paranormal experiences there, I did feel like I was constantly being watched.  I am sure the other people on the tour enjoyed watching me constantly spinning around trying to catch whomever-or whatever-was following me around.  We took tons of pictures and loved every moment of the Plantation.  The trees were heavy with moss that almost touched the ground and just sent the imagination back to the late 1700s when the home was built.  The inside of the home was well air conditioned  (not original to the house), but the outside was not.  Temps were in the 80s, but the humidity was in the 200s.  I was a dripping drowned rat after walking the grounds.  We got about 5 minutes down the road and the sky opened up.  It stormed for 2 and a half hours straight as we drove to Vicksburg, Mississippi.  By the time we arrived, we were DONE for the day.  White knuckle driving thru a monsoon can make even the cheeriest people (me, of course) a little crabby.  After a nap and some Popeye's chicken for dinner,  we are all snug and dry while it still rains outside.  It turns out, Vicksburg has quite the Civil War history.  We may spend more than just tomorrow here touring and investigating, so stay tuned!