Finney’s Fun (and life events) “Blog”

  • Charleston SC at Christmas time

    Where Historic meets Hip We needed a quick long weekend trip so we decided on Charleston SC! Our friends Donna & Ford Terry joined us. It was magical at Christmas time. It did rain but we had raincoats and our lovely hotel provided umbrellas. ☔️ We stayed at The Fulton Lane Inn. https://fultonlaneinn.com/ It’s a…

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  • Camp DeSoto 100 Year Celebration (Courtney’s Version)

    -Courtney Burrow (honored guest writer) Three weekends ago Camp DeSoto in Mentone, AL hosted a quick and sentimental 100-year celebration for all alumni to gather for 24 hours. It felt odd to be packing in a duffle rather than a full trunk (although others may have packed as if they were still staying a whole…

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  • July-August trip out west 2025

    We took a family trip to see Harrison in Carbondale. Thompson and Kendall couldn’t go because of work. We loved the Airbnb we stayed in. It was a little outside of Glenwood Springs so it was kind of far from everything but we did not mind. We did Turo to rent a car this time…

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  • Quick trip to Ocean Springs

    We had been wanting to visit Ocean Springs for a while! My daughter wanted to go on a quick trip before her teaching job started again. We started looking for places to stay and got alot of good recommendations. We settled on Gulf Hills Resort because they had rooms with 2 queens but ended up…

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  • Tuscany 2.0 RSJ PART 2

    Monday we started at the Medici museum/chapel. https://bargellomusei.it/en/museum/cappelle-medicee/ more The Medici family was a powerful and influential Florentine family that played a major role in Italian Renaissance. This is the burial place of the Medici family, the Cappelle Medicee(Medici Chapels) is national monument and museum. It features the “Sagrestia Nuova”, whose architecture and sculptures are by Michelangelo.…

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  • Tuscany 2.0 RSJ Part 1

    We started off our 7 day Tuscany 2.0 trip on Friday morning by meeting the group of 24 in Florence. We had lunch in Florence and shopped for a few hours. We went to the leather school (Scuola Del Cuoio). It is in a 14th century monastery which started after World War II to teach…

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  • Quick trip to Natchez

    It was Luci’s spring break and we booked The Dixon in Natchez, MS. We invited my mom, sisters and daughters in law. Only Mom and Tay could join us. The Dixon is a lovely AirBnB right on Main Street. There are 3 huge bedrooms. We drove down the Trace Sunday afternoon and stopped in Churchill…

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  • Nashville in December 2024

    We were excited to travel to Nashville for a friends wedding! I had maybe been twice in my life. We stopped in Birmingham and read to our daughter’s third grade class. Restoration Academy is a great private Christian school outside Birmingham. Then made a quick stop at Bucees. We stayed downtown at the Hampton Inn…

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  • Another hidden treasure in Mississippi

    This is my second time to Brookhaven MS in last 3 months! I grew up going every summer for a week to stay with my great aunt and uncle-Aunt Litup and Uncle Teenie Becker. I have such fond memories. They had the local brickyard which was a compound it seemed. They had a grass tennis…

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  • Highlands in June!

    We looked high and low for a place our large family could go for a vacation! It’s very hard to gather everyone together and agree on where to go! From Costa Rica to Pacific NW to Michigan, we finally decided on the mountains of North Carolina. Everyone could drive except for our son who lives…

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