Road trips

Just got back from the second road trip over the last 2 weekends. 2200 miles total, ug.

Last weekend we were in Louisiana for the traditional Labor day weekend visit. Fishing, badmitten, hanging out on the pier, eating, laying on the hammock, and pretty much just family time. All the kids but one made it so it was almost perfect.

This weekend we went to Nashville (sans kids). Joan's little brother was getting married. So the Lesters gathered for the festivity. Joan and I left Flower Mound at 5am Friday morning so we could be there for the rehersal diner that night. 700 miles and 10 hours later we made it. Had a little down time then off to the diner.

The next day was the wedding at the Hermitage. We had time to kill earlier in the day so we headed downtown. Joan is a Vanderbilt alum so she really wanted to go so see the 'dores play the crimson tide but we couldn't really squeeze that in. We did go down to the statium and bought the kids Vandy shirts. The game was sold out with 40,000 tickets sold and 25,000 of them to 'bama-ites. It was a sea of red everywhere we went. So instead of seeing Vandy and Bama we went to see Joan's nephew's football game. He is in 6th grade. It was fun to watch, the feel of football is in the air everywhere!

The wedding was great and reception followed. All the usual wedding traditions were completed. Then we returned to Joan's dad's house. We were in time to watch a lot of the LSU game. That was a blow out pretty much (yes, LSU!!) so watched Auburn instead. Southern Florida was really putting the hurt on the other tigers. The field goal misses were tough to see but thats college football. Tough loss for Auburn. I didn't know Southern Florida was the nation's 9th largest university....

Sunday morning we got up and left Nashville at 7am to get back home.

Exhausted but good to be home. Now watching the Cowboys Giants game. Its definately football season.