An afternoon in Natchez, MS

Today we decided to go to the Isle of Capri casino for lunch since they were offering a 2 for 1 price for seniors. The buffet today featured Mexican and it was fair. There were a lot of different things to choose from and a nice salad bar and dessert bar as well. I would have preferred to have had something different than Mexican but at $8.61 for the two of us, it was good and I didn't have to cook!

Of course we played the penny slots for a little while after eating - you have to get some exercise in after all. Again, we played for quite awhile, but didn't really win, oh well.

We went to downtown Natchez to tour Magnolia Hall, a antebellum home that we hadn't seen on our previous visit. It isn't one that I would recommend as the furnishings were not from the family and the inside of the house has been totally refurbished. It served as a private school for a number of years before being donated to the city historical society. The one thing that was different was that it was built to look like a brownstone, but it isn't. It is brick with a stucco siding that was grooved to appear like brownstone and then painted. Very unusual for the time period that it was built.



After our tour of Magnolia Hall, we wondered around the downtown where we found the Eola Hotel - another Natchez landmark. Personally, I didn't see anything special about it! We noticed that there is a lot of the downtown area in need of attention - very run down.



Mickey and Patti will be joining us here in Natchez on Saturday, so we decided to save some of the "better" antebellum homes for when they tour with us.

I've added a link on my blog to my son's blog. My granddaughter, Morgan, who is almost 9 had a scuba diving class and he posted some pictures - really cute. Check it out if you like.