{"id":42323,"date":"2014-07-17T11:37:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T16:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/?p=42323"},"modified":"2014-07-17T11:37:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T16:37:55","slug":"louisiana-mississippi-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/17\/louisiana-mississippi-alabama\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama&hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/13-IMG_4496.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"13-IMG_4496\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"13-IMG_4496\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/13-IMG_4496_thumb.jpg\" width=\"875\" height=\"689\" \/><\/a>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/15-IMG_4494.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"15-IMG_4494\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"15-IMG_4494\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/15-IMG_4494_thumb.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a>&#160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/14-IMG_4498.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"14-IMG_4498\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"14-IMG_4498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/14-IMG_4498_thumb.jpg\" width=\"319\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cracker Barrel in Louisiana hit the spot!&#160; Noelle loomed it up on the road trip for all her friends we were meeting in Florida!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/05-IMG_4503.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"05-IMG_4503\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"05-IMG_4503\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/05-IMG_4503_thumb.jpg\" width=\"431\" height=\"606\" \/><\/a>&#160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/06-IMG_4504.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"06-IMG_4504\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"06-IMG_4504\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/06-IMG_4504_thumb.jpg\" width=\"437\" height=\"606\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was the view from our hotel room at The Hilton Garden Inn in downtown Jackson, MS.&#160; Thankful for our noise machine with all these train tracks.&#160; We don\u2019t leave home without it!&#160; With that being said, I never saw a moving train.&#160; Most of the buildings in this picture and on the downtown road leading up to the capital are abandoned and in disarray.&#160; I told Mike it looked like a ghost town.&#160; The girls got really freaked out, so I had to explain what that meant.&#160; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/02-IMG_1629.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"02-IMG_1629\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"02-IMG_1629\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/02-IMG_1629_thumb.jpg\" width=\"426\" height=\"672\" \/><\/a>&#160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/03-IMG_1631.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"03-IMG_1631\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"03-IMG_1631\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/03-IMG_1631_thumb.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"672\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The lobby was super fancy in an almost eerie way, considering the broken glass windows and weeds in buildings right outside!&#160; The elevators were golden and there was a grand stair case made out of marble.&#160; It was all a little bizarre.&#160; Honestly, we won\u2019t be back, but it was, as Anna Kate says, \u201cInstressting.\u201d&#160; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/04-IMG_1635.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"04-IMG_1635\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; 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