On Saturday I went on a mini road trip with my mom and two aunts to Smithville to do some antique shopping. Smithville is a small texas town about an hour and a half away from Houston and on the way to San Antonio. If you’ve ever seen the movie Hope Floats with Sandra Bullock and Harry Connick Jr. then you have seen this small town, because it is where they movie is filmed and takes place. This town is a very small and friendly town. All the people that live there say it is the best place to live and the friendliest town and they are so proud of the fact that two movies were filmed there..Hope Floats and a new movie called Tree of Life that stars Sean Penn and Brad Pitt. This town also boasts how safe the place is. Apparently, the town is so safe nobody has locks on their doors. Multiple people told us this as if it was their town moto. I find it funny how they openly admit to outsiders they don’t lock their doors…people in your town might not steal from you, but I’m sure there might be some outsiders who would almost find it welcoming to walk in an unlocked house and take advantage of the situation. Not that I would….I’m just just saying maybe you might not want to make that public information. We also saw a motorcycle with its keys in the ignition and left along…honestly, thats just inviting someone to take your ride. Anyways, after we did a little shopping, we went to see the house that was in the movie Hope Floats and it was so cute. We also saw the photo lab Sandra Bullocks character works at in the movie and we ate in the towns only restaurant where they had some of the memorabilia from the movie such as the SNAPPY SNAPS photo lab sign. I could not imagine living in a town that small. I mean, it was a cute town and was interesting to visit…but to live there, now that would be tough.

Challenge: #6 July 20 11:46 pm