TN day 5 and 6

Well aloha!
Yesterday was Sat and we went to Harmon Hollow. Due to time constraints and again, not leaving early enough, we only had about 2 hours to be there. Kinda ridiculous, but at least we got to go. Dave and Laura are awesome as usual and everyone seems happy. Becky and her daughter, Alivia, are fun. Nanny doesn't appear to be fareing as well. They all cooked this huge meal of steak and shrimp with pasta and broccoli noodles, corn, green beans, potato, and I"m sure something else I can't remember. You could only take about a spoonful of each thing before you filled your plate!!!!! IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!! :)

While rushing to get back to Doug's for the TN STITCH meeting, we met a very nice police officer who did not charge us with reckless driving, only going over the speed limit. How very nice considering its a holiday weekend and we are clearly wearing out of state plates.

At any rate, we made it back home for the TN STITCH meeting where we all just wanted to sleep because the man who was speaking, while very nice and semi helpful, just droned on in a boring tone for 2 hours and I'm thinking he didin't actually say anything though he did so much talking.

TODAY WE LEAVE!!!!! I"m up, bff in shower, Doug snoring on couch. I'm terrified of packing and seeing how bff plans to shove all this shit in my car. *cries* See you at home! Megan, so far, there are still 3 living people, and one car still in one piece. Now, let's see if we make it home lol.

Melissa

TN day 4

Friday was a little catch up/ blow off day. We never made it to the incline railroad Wed. so we went thurs. It was ok but we got a big ol late start cuz we could. This meant being caught in the ginormous hailstorm that we were able to watch come at us from high above the world. Tim has a picture of it and its on his facebook. This storm had lightning and thunder as well which scared the shit out of Dougable!!!! Bwahahaha!!!! It wasn't really funny cuz I was half afraid he was going to give himself a heart attack panicing about it. Bff and I had a close call with the lighning a little. It makes you understand quickly why some ppl are afraid. The incline wasn't running in such horrible weather so we had a break of luck getting the last one to come a little late. Once we finally got back down the mountain, we were so soaked that it made me mad sicne I had showered that morning.

Once all that was done we went to dinner at Fazoli's and then went back to the awesome bookstore, McKays. Oh the things bff and Doug bought...my poor car won't have room for all this stuff!!!! I have a feeling I"m going to be left behind just so that they can get all their crap home lol.

TN 3 :)

Yesterday we attempted to combine 2 days of sightseeing into 1 day. Didn't quite work because things are still closing at 6p, BOO! We saw Rock City which was kewl and had lots of trails and pretty music and caves and stuff. There was also a very big heigh difference between me and the ground and the only way between two parts was a footbridge. Lots of George of the Jungle quotes were said and Dougable ran away very scared. I was fine which I thought was hysterical. We took lots of video. At the top of Lookout Mountain, which contains rock city, ruby falls, and the incline railroad, you can see 7 states. This is kewl and historical cuz it was used in the civil war for the south to keep an eye on the advancing north.

Most of yesterday was awesome. It fell apart a little at the end. We are all still so sleep deprived so we may be slightly cranky still. Today is very rainy and I think that is how our trip will end. Rainy last few days. We are headed back out to the amazing, crazy, ridiculous, bookstore where many hours and dollars will be spent most likely needlessly lol. Should be great. :) Bye!

Melissa

TN day 2

aloha
yesterday we got up early, but all went back to bed. the origional plans were to get up at about 6 to be out the door by 7 and in atlanta by 9 to spend the day at the georgia aquarium. well we were all tired and delayed ourselves a few hours but finally we made it and had such a blast i can't even begin to describe it. it's the world's biggest aquarium. i really should have gotten a tshirt but i was cranky cuz they only started in 2005 apparently lol. i guess i wanted 20 years of experience before i was going to purchase the apparel lol. i have lots of videos i'll put on youtube one day.

we totally missed the idol finale but doug and bff caught the end. i know what happened but i could care less. oh well. lee won, boo. last night we finally got to do some heavy sleeping. i'm still exhausted. mybody has been awake for 2 hours but my brain is still in sleep mode. today we are going to rock city, the incline railroad, and ruby falls.

melissa

TN TRIP 2010 DAY 1

Aloha! Bff and I left last night ( Monday) to get here to see Dougable. The 9 hour ride kinda sucked ass. We left at 5p and didn't get here till 4am Tuesday (today). Yeah that was more than 9 hours but what the hell. We over packed as per usual cuz we're adorable like that. So far we haven't slept at all and we are all tired and nutz.

Today so far we went McKay's. It's a gigantic, behemoth, huge, big-ass, used book, music, movie, and electronics store. It's fucking amazing and only in TN right now. Spent tooooo much money on stuff that is hard to find on my amazon list, and for what i spent, bff spent nearly 3x as much!!!! Only a few dollars per item really adds up. Love it. After that we had lunch at O'Charley's and sad to say, my squash salad is gone :( *moment of squashed silence*

Now we are back at Doug's and we are sitting here going from tired, to playful, to tired, to slaphappy, to tired, to asleep!

TOMORROW - GEORGIA AQUARIUM!!!!!

6-8 weeks later

well our assistant came back to jewel today. that means it's been somewhere between 6 and 8 weeks since she lost her husband. this means for me that it's been 6-8 weeks since the mental breakdown disaster that led to the big fight in naperville that still keeps me up at night. i'm really not pleased that time has caused me to pay attention to it and is kinda holding me accountable.

my chest hurts.