So, here I am in Derrick's grandparent's computer room, somewhere in Tennessee (Walland to be exact), sitting in the dark, listening to the family in the living room switch between watching Jeapardy and a country music award show (?). Not my usual ruetine (my spelling is especially bad tonight. I blame it on swelling of my body and brain which is a consequence of being in a different state, time zone, temperature, as well as hormone fluctuations that occur this time every month, AND Grandma Betty's awesome cooking ability and her tendancy to keep her house fully stocked with chocolate.)
We have been exploring the state of Tennessee (at least the part near us) in a strategic and well thought out manner. We drove up the Smokie mountains on Friday to hike up and see the "chimney tops", a mountain where you are supposed to beable to look down the peak into a hole that goes clear to the bottom of the mountain (thus the name "chimney top"). Unfortunately the hole has crumbled sometime in the last twenty years. But the hike was fantastic. Even made me feel less swollen and more like myself. The kids even enjoyed it after initial grumbling that they would rather be at home with their Grandma Betty, her hugs, and her chocolate;)
Saturday we went on another drive with some friends of Derrick (Javier and Ramey- Derrick was a southern boy in his youth and grew up with Javier in a little town in Texas), once again to see all the colors of fall. It is pretty, although everyone here says the colors are not that great this year because of the drought here.
Today we went to Pigeon's Forge to the best site yet- outlet stores. We went to so many! And apparently there are many more we have not seen yet, so we will be venturing into Pigeon's Forge again in the next couple days. Also, we found a pretty good sushi place today, which was definately a contrast to the southern fare we have been enjoying at Grandma's.
Unfortunately, the kids have been sick most of the time we have been here. They have both been running fevers and Derrin has a hacking cough which Kloe is getting right now. Hopefully they will be feeling better when we fly out on Thursday!
We have been exploring the state of Tennessee (at least the part near us) in a strategic and well thought out manner. We drove up the Smokie mountains on Friday to hike up and see the "chimney tops", a mountain where you are supposed to beable to look down the peak into a hole that goes clear to the bottom of the mountain (thus the name "chimney top"). Unfortunately the hole has crumbled sometime in the last twenty years. But the hike was fantastic. Even made me feel less swollen and more like myself. The kids even enjoyed it after initial grumbling that they would rather be at home with their Grandma Betty, her hugs, and her chocolate;)
Saturday we went on another drive with some friends of Derrick (Javier and Ramey- Derrick was a southern boy in his youth and grew up with Javier in a little town in Texas), once again to see all the colors of fall. It is pretty, although everyone here says the colors are not that great this year because of the drought here.
Today we went to Pigeon's Forge to the best site yet- outlet stores. We went to so many! And apparently there are many more we have not seen yet, so we will be venturing into Pigeon's Forge again in the next couple days. Also, we found a pretty good sushi place today, which was definately a contrast to the southern fare we have been enjoying at Grandma's.
Unfortunately, the kids have been sick most of the time we have been here. They have both been running fevers and Derrin has a hacking cough which Kloe is getting right now. Hopefully they will be feeling better when we fly out on Thursday!
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