Rosswood Plantation

Woke up at stupid O'clock thanks to thunderstorm that was actually pretty amazing.  The thunder and lightening were were hitting at exactly the same time so safe to say we were pretty much in the eye of the storm which considering all the floods hitting the Mississippi Delta, it's not somewhere you want to be.

When we did drag ourselves out of bed it was for morning tea and coffee on the upstairs terrace with the crazy christians one of whom was reading the bible and the others were weirdly talking about cheap ryan air flights around europe, much as I'm not keen on the airline you've got to be impressed by advertising that can reach to the depth of Mississippi.  When I say depth I'm not joking, go anywhere bigger and talk about Lorman where we stayed they look at you blankly.

Breakfast was in the main plantation dining room which was ace (though they need to re wallpaper) where we all ate around the dining table as a group, those crazy christians again.  they were all dressed up for the graduation they were attending so event hough Leon and I were both dressed nicely and not at all like tramps (I know, shocking for Leon) we still looked like the interlopers at the table.  The weirdest thing though was Peggy the cook, her bacon, scrambled eggs, cheese grits, cheese hash browns, spanish sausage and baked peaches were AMAZING but it felt a little bit wrong being surrounded by that many white americans, in a plantation house, in the south, being asked by a black cook if Mister Leon would like any more coffee sir.

The rest of them headed off to the graduation and Leon and I got ready for our 'tour' (included in the price along with breakfast) of a Southern plantation house.  Now I've toured old houses before, Temple Newsam, Ripley Castle (more a stately home and less a castle) and Bolton Castle, I've been there and done that, so I had an idea of what to expect.  I didn't expect to b 15 minute e taken into the library, plonked in front of the VCR (not even a DVD) and left to watch some old semi home made history channel wannabe documentary of the house history.  Saying that though it was fairly decent and at the end we got to fondle the cannon ball that destroyed the kitchen during the civil war.