Southern Weddings

We just moved to Central Texas where there are so many fresh water rivers all around us. Not only are they beautiful, but on a hot Texas day (and we’ve had a lot of those recently), it’s so fun and relaxing to blow up some tubes and go tubing down one of the spring water rivers. It makes me feel like a kid again… only this time, I’m a girl who gets to do this with the love of her life. We’ll probably get to go tubing this weekend since his parents will be in town. I can’t wait!

I love so many Southern activities… but I’d have to say my favorite is enjoying the lake. Getting up early to waterski on the smooth water while everyone else is sleeping, grilling and eating out by the water, staying up late talking under the stars…. I love it all! My very favorite has to be 4th of July on the lake though- nothing beats watching fireworks while sitting on a boat holding hands with the one you love most! (It also happened to be during our first 4th Fireworks show that he realized I was The One- doesn’t get much sweeter than that.)

My favorite southern activity is visiting my family’s small farm. We hop on the John Deere Gator and take a quick ride down a little path… past lots of green ferns and over a small stream in my parents backyard to a big field where my brother keeps his cows and goats. There are usually deer walking around back there too. It always smells like animals and grass and hay and you can hear tiny ‘bahhhhs’ and deep low ‘mooooos’ as soon as you come up on the pasture. Some of the cows have names and others just have numbers but most come right up to you and let you pet them or feed them. I love taking pictures back there while my brother fills up the water bowls and we ride back up to my parents house for an amazing home-cooked dinner. There is nothing like it.

My favorite southern activity to scavenge the market in Charleston, SC for unique items. There’s a lot to see and we have a lot of fun browsing together – and it makes for interesting conversation pieces when you find unique buys!

My favorite Southern activity is taking hikes through Central Texas. My finance and I love to go hiking and will hopefully go this weekend to explore some parks around Austin then eat some BBQ!

I think this is my favorite SW post ever. To me, those ordinarily wonderful moments are what add up to a lifetime of happiness. Perhaps because our graduate student budgets forced it, but most of our relationship was built wandering through small bookstores, sandwich shops, and towns in this Old North State. My favorite of these “wanderings” is when we meandered up the Outer Banks last summer– staying only in B&Bs, stopping at any interesting shop (or sand dune), and eating all the local ice cream we wanted!

The food! Low country boils, good southern BBQ, REAL banana pudding! Just being outside with a picnic is perfect… And the smell of honeysuckles is my favorite.

Now that the winter is gone and everyone is starting to enjoy the outdoors again we love to go hiking, we have several favorite places near our home in NC. We also just got bikes so we’ve started riding together around our neighborhood and taking our dog with us. My fiances favorite thing to do would definitely be to grill or smoke dinner on a nice afternoon. We’ll sit outside, have a drink and sometimes friends will come over, it’s a great time every weekend.

I think pretty much everything I do counts as a Southern activity, living in South Carolina and having grown up in the mountains of Virginia. I love to play a good game of paddleball on the beach, go for a hike in the mountains, or just sit and swing on the porch on a warm summer night with a cool glass and some good friends! (oh yeah and I plan to do ALL these next week with my sweetie!!!)

Our favorite summer outdoor activity would be packing up our dog, our kayak and heading camping! We live in Tampa and within a 2-3 hours drive there are so many amazing kayaking/canoeing and springs!Crystal River is one of our fave spots! The water is always lovely at 72 degrees and often we spot manatee’s swimming along, our dog goes crazy when we spots one!

My favorite southern activity is opening the windows in my home every day for the 2 weeks of the year that we have weather that is good enough to do so. =)

I adore that fish picture :)
Those luggage tags are great! I love things that are special and personalized!

My favorite Southern activity is air boating :) I love when we go just the two of us…fishing, relaxing, playing on sandbars…the best :)

Defiantly the best thing to do in the South is have a good fun home cooking meal with the whole family. Following by enjoying each other. We actually did it this afternoon started out by going to church, then good old brisket,green beans,and mashed potatoes, and don’t forget the peach cobbler. We ended up filling up an old wheel barrel with water and made a southern pool for my five month old niece. Got to love my in laws!!!