A Fabulous Weekend...

We had the best time at Nai Nai and Yei Yei's this weekend. We left North MS on Thursday afternoon and made our way to our favorite Catfish Restaurant in Walnut Grove, MS. Seriously, they have the BEST catfish and steaks you can find anywhere! We've tried MANY Catfish Restaurants and have never found better service, prices and most of all food. We had so much fun.
Since Nai Nai and Yei Yei had to work on Friday, CDP, the girls and I headed to Jackson to visit with Meme. We decided to take a chance and see if some of our friends from Madison were planning a day at the park and sure enough, they were. We met up with MWC, Sam, Audrey and Alyssa at Friendship park and they had a BLAST! We have not seen them since we left in February and it was a great time. We had lunch with our friends and then headed back to Lorena to get ready to go.....FISHING! CDP has been wanting to take SJP fishing for some time. This weekend turned out to be the perfect opportunity.

Yei Yei has a friend who has a 15 acre pond LOADED with Bream and Florida Bass...rumors are that some of those Florida Bass have been breaking 20lb test fishing line...That was enough for CDP. He had to check it out. So, we rigged up everything and loaded up the crickets, minnows, luers, poles and headed out. We arrived at our location and SJP was just itching to get out. I had forgotten she had never been riding in a pasture before....poor thing....living in the asphalt jungle has sheltered her. She was ready to get out from the minute she saw the cows. We made our way to the pond and got set up.

Now here this....what I'm about to write is TRUE...with my hand up! CDP dropped his line in the pond and within 45 seconds, got a hit.....this just took the cake...he then gave SJP a pole and cast it in the pond and within approx 45 seconds.....You guessed it....SJP hauled in a 1lb Bream as big as Yei Yei's hand!
Now, before you get excited to see the pics, I need to confess that....... I FORGOT THE CAMERA! I know, go figure. I guess I had no faith.

Anyway, we had the best time. After about 2 hours of fishing, we took home about 12 NICE size Bream and to be honest, Mom and I hauled in the most....of course, we must give credit where credit is due. Yei Yei and CDP were too busy baiting hooks and taking fish off our lines to do much else! I have to say...Yei Yei and CDP were troopers and they didn't get frustrated one time. Thank Yei Yei and CDP......even though we didn't get any pics....like Yei Yei said...."we'll have memories to last the rest of our lives!"
So, the moral to this story is......DON'T FORGET THE CAMERA!
Thanks to Mr. Bill for letting us make wonderful memories this weekend....Signing off for now....Church tomorrow and I need to get to bed! Night Night!