Weekend trip
Chels made Allstate Choir. This is a big honor and only a few of kids are picked from each area. We spent the day in Baton Rouge yesterday. Their performance was great, with the exception of the very end when they let 2 girls pipe in with a solo part, which wasn't suppose to be a jazzy spiritual but the kids stood up there and tried to make it sound that way... Ewwwww, those few lines were seriously BAD! They could have left that part out.. people in the audience were cutting eyes at each other, wondering what the heck!
Chels did good and looked so pretty. Her looks are changing so much just this year. I have all my pics posted on myspace, if you'd like to look, please do! Also, add me if you'd like and have a page yourself. http://www.myspace.com/remembertheredhead
On the way back from Baton Rouge, We stopped at the Myrtles plantation in St. Francisville, LA. us three, my ex husband, his girlfriend and her kids stopped too. Maybe you have heard of this plantation, it's one of the most haunted places they say. If you google about the place, you'll get a history that's very interesting. Sylvia Brown has been there, and the Montel Williams show did a segment on it, along with other media people.
One of the tales of the place involves a young slave girl that got her ear chopped off.. she haunts the place and is known to take women's earrings.. just one of them. Chelsea warned me not to wear any earrings.. I did and I kid you not.. while I was walking on the grounds I felt my ears and one of my earrings was missing!! The kids just absolutely LOVED this.. and were so freaked out by it.. as was I! Chels ran in and told the lady that worked there and she said that it happens all the time, to leave my name and phone number and they would contact me when it showed up in the house somewhere. Normally, I don't believe stuff like this, but It seriously happened to me!!
I also have pictures posted on myspace that we took while there. They say that the ghostly images and things show up in the pictures.. one of my friends just emailed me and told me that there was a face in one of the pictures and a shadowy figure in a window.. and I saw it too.. if you look at the pictures you'll see the comment she left. Please if you look at the pictures and see anything, let me know or leave a comment so everyone can see it under the picture!!
Our trip there was fun. I went exploring on the grounds with the kids while everyone else seemed less interested and sat at the tables waiting on the tour. I wanted to walk around and feel the place.. and felt it I did! We walked under the trees and by an old well.. I felt a strong feeling in one spot in the yard.. so we took pictures there. The kids found some black cats wandering around which added to their excitement of the place and it being so close to Halloween too.. they were excited. I would like to go on their mystery tour at night, but I definitely would not want to spend the night there. It's a bed a breakfast too, but around $200 a night to stay.