Well, Thanksgiving went great! Andrew and I had a great trip down to TN to visit with Lee and his family. There are also a large number of things going on that I realize that I haven’t filled anyone in yet. Also, I am sorry I haven’t gotten around to posting much, I have been pretty busy with all of these things. Now that the torrent of stuff is starting to die down I may have a little more time.
One main thing that happened recently is that I have gotten glasses. I have joined the ranks of those who have issues seeing crap when it’s not right in front of his freaking face. Amy finally talked me in to going to get my eyes checked and the Dr. gave me a halfway decent prescription. I don’t know exactly what the eyesight is (I.E. 20/20) but I have problems with distances. I have now had my glasses for about 2 weeks and I have really gotten used to them. Sadly I don’t think I have any pictures of me in them just yet so you will just have to check back and see if I post some. I really like them though and they are very stylish. When I first got them I sat there for like 5 min putting them on and taking them off. I was astonished to learn that I had bad eyes! (Funny, I thought the stuff far away was supposed to be blurry!)
One of the Thanksgiving events that I hadn’t reported on was that Amy got to go home to TX for her Thanksgiving! She spent the whole time there with her Dad and her kids. From what I have heard (and seen on video) they are doing wonderfully well. The main reason I didn’t say anything is that it was a surprise to some of those people back in TX and I didn’t want to ruin it.
My trip, however, I can give much more details about. Wednesday morning was a rough start for us. We woke up at 3am (ugh) so that we could get Amy to the airport on time for her flight. We really did try and get to sleep early on Tuesday but you all know how that works. We dropped her off and started out on our Father Son road trip. This trip took us down I66 to I81 to I40 to I440 to I65 then to Lee’s place. Most of it was I81 and I40 as they are a straight shot to Nashville. The excited start to the driving petered out around 8:30am as I started getting sleepy. So sleepy in fact that I made the intelligent decision to pull over and take a 30 min nap. It’s amazing how much that will help you on a trip. We finally arrived at around 4:30pm Nashville time. Thankfully we have XM in the truck for those long drives. It’s nice not having to channel surf through areas.
Thanksgiving Day was interesting to say the least. We started the day with a nice cup of Chai and went about helping Missy with thanksgiving dinner preparations. Andrew and Damon got to play games a lot over the few days. We had a lovely early dinner with Lee’s parents and after diner many of Lee’s extended family came by for desert. It was kind of awkward for me because I really didn’t know many of them at all. I let Andrew hide upstairs. I did my best to fit in and follow along in conversations. To round out the evening we sat and watched Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow on Lee’s giant 50 inch TV.
Friday we had quite a number of plans. We started out with lunch (yes, lunch) at Sonic. This was ½ because Andrew had never had Sonic before and ½ because Amy always wants sonic. Problem was, if you remember, Amy wasn’t with us. So to involve her we took many cell phone pictures and sent them to her so that she can enjoy Sonic as much as we did. (Yeah, she wasn’t that amused). After we finished off our Coney Specials, we headed to the theater to catch Harry Potter: The Goblet of Fire. Overall it was a good movie, but very very very long. I think the movie started at 3pm and we got out at 5:45pm. Next stop was a little pub named McCreary’s in old town Franklin. We took the whole clan with us so they could get the chance to eat, but the overall feeling from them was that they wanted to go home. Missy was nice enough to take them back (with their fish and chips) so Lee and I could stay and have a few Ciders. They had what had to be double pint glasses of Woodchuck Cider on tap. It was glorious! We each had 2 and finished off Missy’s. Needless to say we were feeling quite happy. The sad part came when we decided to go home and drink some more while playing a little bit of WoW. Thankfully Saturday was a light day.
When I finally dragged myself from my bed and poured about a gallon of water into my stomach, I started feeling somewhat normal again. We took this opportunity to venture out to the local comic book shop. I have been searching for some past issues of stuff and thought a whole new state might have some of it. No big luck. We also did our gift exchange for Christmas. Lee was nice enough to go through all of his old Magic the Gathering cards and give some of them to Andrew. We rounded the evening out with lee and I going to TGI Fridays for dinner.
Sunday meant back on the road again. We started out at 6am this time and the trip sucked! We were on the road for a full 13 and ½ hours. We managed to stop a few times to stretch and rest and eat. The most memorable one was a small Antique store. They had an interesting stock of stuff. Most of it was Nascar, but I figured that was because of where we were. The last part of the trip was filled with the sound of yester-year as we found the Old Time Radio station on XM was playing The Adventures of Superman! This had to be from the 40s to 50s time frame. It was fun to listen to how dramatic the actors get. We got home and around 7:45pm and were thankful for it! Amy met us at the door with lots of hugs and I think I fell asleep early because I was wiped out.
There is one other surprise coming, but that will have to wait for the next post.
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