Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Fall Break Trip, Day 1

Last Friday night was technically  the beginning of our Fall Break!  


 After my Book Club meeting fell through, and the boys all went off to Haircuts, we came home and had Pizza and did a little prep by watching SpaceCamp, the classically awesome 80s movie.

Saturday morning, we hit the road!  
After gymnastics of course. 
We packed up the minivan, and got the boys to their classes.  Although that was close.  Sam's class starts at 10, and only he was ready, so I ran him up in Eric's car, got back just in time for everyone else to be ready, and we headed up just in time for Jacob's 11 oclock class.  
At high noon, we hit the road. 


We crossed into Ohio for a few minutes! 


Then we hit a bigger state, Kentucky! 
We stopped at Rest Stops, and Starbucks for drinkies and to add to my Mug Collection. 
It was surprisingly chilly in the hills/mountains of Kentucky. 


Jacob conked out in Kentucky, so he didn't get to learn about the horses, or see much of the horse farms. Even big boy Kindergartners need naps on occasion. 


My special project.  Sam asked for a Green Harry Potter Scarf, not exactly because he loves Slytherin, but because he loves Green. I started it in January.  I'm just over halfway done. My goal is Christmas.  This trip I want to finish this pair of gray stripes on our drive down, work on during the next green patch during our journey.  


The hills of Kentucky.  
They are getting some Beautiful color! 


Eric is doing a great job of driving through the mountains of Tennessee.  They roll on in the background behind his window.  


The view from our Comfort Inn Suite in Knoxville.  The boys love being in the hills/mountains. 


We walked around the corner to Puleo's Grille, a place that said they specialized in "southern and Italian" food.  Um OK.  I got this Shrimp and Grits at the recommendation of the waiter, and it was so good.  I've never had Grits this good!  They were like cheesy mashed potatoes with a hint of corn.  
And the sausage and shrimp sauce was so good even Eric liked it.  
I've set the goal of some sort of seafood or southern food every day on our trip. #Goals


My nails for the Trip.  They are Jamberries, of course.  I'm so hard on anything else.  I brought a backup polish, but on my toes is a Hostess Exclusive from June 2015, that I had a pedicure left from last time I wore it.  I wore it on my toes when we visited the beach in 2017 too. On my hands is a new one from the IT Girl series called Blair, a pale pink to purple ombre which looks great, even blurry.  


Then we did, as we do, we watched The Disney Channel in our hotel room. 
Big Hero 6 was on.  
We've seen it a million times, but it was wonderful to watch, just us, on vacation, on the Disney Channel. My kids are out of the groove of watching shows with commercials, which was kind of funny.  And it was a Good Way to end the first day.