Sunday, September 27, 2009

Saturday, September 26, 2009

2009 Reunion - Scenes of Natchez

The 2009 USS Currier DE-700 Reunion was held on September 24-28 in Natchez, Mississippi. Accommodations were at the Grand Soleil Hotel on the banks of the Mississippi River.






Isle of Capri Gambling Riverboat
Ironwork at Stanton House

Outside the Carriage Restaurant

Columns at Longwood

Unfinished 2-6 floors of Longwood House

Tools and handmade paint buckets left by workers when Civil War started.


Exterior of Longwood House with oniontop cupola

Tour guide in costume, handmade by a local seamstress

Hot tub at Fat Mama's Tamales
Trying the tamales

Huge oak tree at Melrose House

Melrose outbuilding

Melrose

Jean dislikes the Spanish moss

Rescuing luggage from a locked trunk
Garden at adjacent bed and breakfast Overlooking the bridge to Louisiana

Hike to the adjacent bed and breakfast
View of the bridge