40 Days in Oxford

I've been slacking on my blog updates these last two weeks...mostly because we've been super busy and designating most of our spare time to wedding planning.  Here are some updates...

We've been spending our weekends at Sardis Lake having picnics, relaxing and working on our wilderness skills.  Yes I just said that...our wilderness skills!

Day 1 of our fire pit...we learned that we need to dig it into the ground...and always carry a flint.

Day 1 of our shelter...we didn't complete it but when we went back on the second day this was still in tack...we're working on it, trying to learn where the smartest location for a shelter actually would have been.  I think we built it in the wrong place. :/

Beyond knowing if we can be self sufficient at a real basic level, Jameson Levi and I truly believe the time you spend in nature heals your body, mind and spirit. We'd rather spend a weekend in the woods than a weekend at the bar.  I'm really grateful that we have this in common.

"Get lost in nature and you will find yourself"

We thought this tree was pretty beautiful.

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 We were so close to this blue heron, he was really cool to watch!

Another lesson we learned was that Mississippi is much closer to the sun than Iowa is. With this in mind it is very important to wear sunscreen-Jameson Levi experienced a pretty bad sunburn! Lesson learned! And we're all about learning! We're currently reading a few books on survival techniques and plants and animals in Mississippi.

Another thing Jameson Levi and I would both miss if we had to survive in the wilderness would be late night cereal!!!

Late night snacks are the best-in my new smiley cup! :D

By the way if you haven't seen the movie Into the Wild, we highly recommend it, just an amazing movie about life and surviving in the wild.

Just Call Me a Southern Belle

This is a little late but here is how our third week in Oxford went.

It started with healthy intention...

Jameson Levi created an amazing dish from chicken, kous kous, post cereal and honey.  It was AMAZING!  He likes to call it "Mississippi Chicken in a Nest."

It quickly became unhealthy when the next night we went to our favorite spot Old Venice Pizza.

Just Kidding, heres the real picture...

This is our favorite restaurant in Oxford. The food is amazing, the drinks are good, and the staff is super friendly.  During this visit I decided to try a Southern Belle.

It was good, however, I enjoyed my Hot Toddy much better!  None the less we had a great date night, laughing (probably a little to loudly) the whole night.  :D 

After dinner we headed to Off Square Books (another one of our favs.) Here we had been eyeing this fortune teller gum-ball machine. 

So we decided to give it a try...this is what we got...

The piece of paper was a quote from Revelations and totally freaked us out... we'll be spending our change differently from here on out. 

We bought a few other things...

Just kidding again! ...well sort of...

I guess he's planning on become a freelance writer! ;)

Calling his agent

During the weekend we visited Sardis Lake, a 32,000 acre lake only ten minutes away from us.

It was gorgeous! And all three of us had a fun and relaxing time. (Which was much needed after a 50 work week for me.)

& I just had to include this bath-time pic. Isn't she a cutie?

Any other free-time we had we mainly spent discussing the Wedding and making a list of the places we had to see while in Quebec City.  Only 47 more days!

Love, 

The Future Mrs. Jameson Levi Hudson