We began the Southern Union Tour today at Bass Memorial Academy in Lumberton, Mississippi. Last night we stayed in Hattiesburg, MS, which is about 30mins from the school. We really like the southern states and the southern accents—everyone calls us sir down here, so it makes us feels important! After the fair, we took a drive down into Louisiana to tick another state off our list. It was a little out of our way, as we needed to be in Huntsville, Alabama (pret...

After a good sleep-in we got ourselves out of bed and headed to Chattanooga, TN where Natalie and her housemate wanted to show us the Farmers Market, which is held each Sunday. It was really cool; we got to try some southern style chili (con carne), some waffle cake; which is a pancake that looks like a jungle gym, kettle corn; a sweet-and-salty variety of popcorn, and other tasty samples. We also got to hear some sweet live Bluegrass music from local band. Tha...

This morning we arrived at Southern Adventist University (SAU) and attended Collegedale Church, which has three church services: Adoration, a traditional service at 9am and 10.15am, and Renewal, a student-led church service at 11.45am. We made it to the 11.45am service and it was pretty packed out. Afterwards we also found out that there was another contemporary service called Connect held in the Collegedale Academy auditorium at 11.30am…too many choices!…m...

Our plan today was to get to Collegedale, Tennessee this evening, so we could spend the weekend at Southern Adventist University, although before we could do that we had to pick up our US/Canada Student Information Guides that we had printed in LA and sent to a Fed-Ex depot in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. We were a little unsure how we would fit all the 5,500 Information Guides into our Escape because the boot space was limited and it was about a pallet-sized-load. ...

This morning we headed downtown again to check out some more sights of D.C. We parked the car and took the subway into the city centre. From there we wandered past the White House and saw the secret service guys on the roof, which was nuts, then we continued on to the Capitol Supreme Court Building - the building which houses the Senate and House chambers. We took a guided tour of the Capitol which was awesome. The dome of the building is made of cast iron and ...