Winter Break 2003-2004
So I spent a good bit of my Christmas Break this year traveling around Mississippi and up into Tennessee. It was lots of fun, and here are the pics to prove it! (P.S.--If you have any pics from the trip that I don't and would like to be nice and give them to me, you can e-mail them to me and I'll be sure to give you credit! Thanks!

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Our first stop was Tupelo, MS, where Shane, Kira, and I went to visit Betsy for her birthday. Here she is playing with her latest gift, a pack of invisible playing cards...

Here are Betsy and Shane looking all cute. I don't know why, but this is probably my all-time favorite picture of the two of them...

Our next stop was Madison/Ridgeland, MS, where we stayed at Ellen's house for a night of hilarity. Here's the whole gang (Prissy, Shane, Hope, Lauren, Ellen, Betsy, Kira, and me) chillin on Ellen's couch...

Now THIS is what we should be doing 24 hours a day! Jammin on the piano! Yeah...~Thanks Ellen for the picture...

While in the Jackson area, we went to Macaroni Grill and took Betsy to dinner for her birthday. Here's Kira doing what she did the entire trip: playing with her new digital camera...

Here's our friend from Hotlanta, Eleyna, chillin' at the Grill...

The entire gang at the Macaroni Grill...~Thanks LN for the picture...

The birthday girl gets her song and a piece of nummy cake...~Thanks LN for the picture!

No trip would be complete without a visit to a local coffee shop. Here's Betsy, Ellen, me, Hope, and Prissy enjoying some bittersweet goodness...

During the trip, Ellen presented me with a new toy, a board game called 'Vampire Hunter.' Here's our buddy Eric playing with one of the board pieces...

Betsy, Hope, and Ellen, stop to pose for a shot...At the Macaroni Grill perhaps? ~Thanks LN for the pic...

Contrary to popular belief, this trip did have purpose. After a night at Ellen's house we caught a bus to Memphis, where the Pride was performing at the Liberty Bowl. Here are Ellen and Ross on the bus before the Liberty Bowl Parade...

Is it possible for me to get pictures of Kira without her camera in it? LOL...

My new favorite picture of Shane and Stephanie. Stephanie's leaving for her internship at DisneyWorld in a few weeks. Good luck, girl!

Judging by the clothes and the expressions on everybody's faces, I'm guessing this was taken on the way to or from rehearsal the night before the game...Yeah...~Thanks LN for the pics...

A bunch of us getting ready to chow down at the band banquet...Thanks for the pic LN!

Greg, Thomas, and Garrett get silly during dinner...~Thanks to LN for the pic!

This is a bunch of the clarinets getting ready to go battle Utah's band...Woohoo! ~Thanks to LN again for the pic...

A group of friends at LoneStar after the devestating loss at the bowl game. But hey, what better way to spend New Year's Eve then watching the ball drop on Times Square from the safety of a semi-private room in a restaurant. I wish I'd gotten our waiter's name...He was funny...

Jessica listens intently as Shane tells another one of his extremely silly stories over dinner...

Stephanie and Kira at dinner...I think they mixed up Steph's Mississippi Mud with a pina colada, though...

Ross, Shane, Ellen, Stephanie, and me say farewell in front of the Save-Rite in Jackson. Ah, memories...Can't wait to go back to school next week and make some new ones!!!

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