Mississippi, "The Hospitality State"

I struggle at how to start these blog posts. I'm not the best writer, (as I'm sure most of you can tell!) but I'm working on it. I guess I'll just start this post with our latest experience here in Mississippi.

Today, we went to the Mississippi Department of Public Safety to get our new drivers licenses! I think today was the first time we officially got lost since we have been here. Before we left our apartment, Cody typed the address into google maps to ensure we knew where we were going, but little did we know we had the wrong address! While we were driving to what we thought was the right address, we both kept saying, "I hope we are going the right way," because we were driving in the middle of no where! There would be a house every 100 yards or so, but besides that alls we could see were trees and road. When we "arrived at our destination" we quickly realized we were not where we were supposed to be. At that point, Cody called to get driving directions since obviously the address we had was wrong. The woman on the phone gave us an idea of where the office was, but she wasn't much help.. we still really didn't know where we were going. She told us the office was in the industrial park so as we drove towards Hwy. 49 we started looking around for this so called "industrial park."- Keep in mind we are still driving through the middle of nowhere, surrounded by trees- While driving down the road, we saw a water tower which read, "Forrest County Industrial Park" so we knew we had to be in the right place, but were so confused because we didn't see any buildings.. until we came upon this beaut.. 

Yes, this is the Department of Public Safety. I'm so used to the DMV in Nevada that I really wasn't expecting this! We still weren't even sure we were in the right place when we pulled up, but we got out of the car and read the door.. it was confirmed, we were there.

Luckily, we weren't there very long. From the outside I thought we wouldn't have to wait at all, but I was surprised at how many people they could fit in that building. About 30 minutes later, we walked out with our new drivers licenses. We are now officially residents of Mississippi! 

The rest of our week has been pretty boring. I am still applying for lots of jobs and Cody is getting ready to start school. He has been helping Dr. Holcomb with a few things here and there, but nothing too time consuming.  I applied to Jones County Junior College in hopes to be able to start their nursing program in January. I still have lots of things I have to do to finish my nursing school application, but at least I've got the ball rolling!