Hot, Hot, Hot

I went for a walk this morning and I have to say it felt like the middle of July - this morning.  Apparently it is supposed to get up to 90 degrees today.  Ridiculous for the middle of May, I say.  And it was humid.  Not too bad, but enough to make me feel sticky when I started sweating.  And my calves were burning!  I guess that's what happens when you walk up and down hills.  It was a good walk though.  Later today we are oging canoeing on the Harpeth River.  That should be fun!

Oohhh...

I realized today that at some point I am going to have to change the description of my blog.  At what point am I no longer a "young wife"?  Now I am sure I can leave this up for a while, but at some point I will have to change that.

Wow, someday, I will be the experienced one, hopefully helping out the younger wife.  Ooo, scary. 

I have to admit, sometimes, it seems like we will never get this marriage thing figured out.  I tell you, we think we are doing well, going along, communicating well, and then bang, we aren't anymore.  I have probably already written about this, but it hit me again just now. 

I was visiting with some friends who moved to Nashville last year today and I was realizing how grown up their kids are and commented that the kids were old.  The father said to me "you know what that says about you - you're old-er."  One of their daughters is graduating from high school this month, and I recalled that I have been out of high school for five years.  That seems like an eternity!  And at the same time feels like yesterday.  Now I am the adult encouraging kids about college and life decisions.  When did I become the experienced one?  It is so strange sometimes, remembering that I am an adult now.  Where did the time go?

Oh well, there isn't much I can do about it now.  It's not like I can go back in time and do it all over again.  Not that I would want to.  But seriously...those years of my life flew by.  But I am graduated from college and married now.  I love my life.  Sure it isn't always easy and there are days when I miss college life, but I wouldn't trade my current life for anything - except an eternity with Jesus.

Downtown Nashville!!!

Well, the trip downtown was so much fun!  We visited the capital and did the walking tour.  Well the abbreviated version cause the little ones were slightly restless.  It was a really cool building.  I would have taken pictures to share with you but I forgot my camera.  Very sad day.  The architecture was amazing.  It was old and most of the building has original woodwork in the offices and meeting rooms.  It was a neat piece of history. 

We walked around downtown and visited a Veterans Memorial Park thing.  It had neat fountains, and some monuments dedicated to fallen soldiers.  And of course beautiful green trees.

We also walked down (and up) Broadway.  This street is what they call a "live music venue."  Almost every store had some sort of live music.  Unfortunately most of these restaurants were bars, so we didn't go in.  We visited an old fashioned ice cream parlor - that was fun.  They had the old fashioned glasses, and even had a candy section.  I wanted to get something so badly, but I didn't because I knew the little kids would want some and they were not able to get any by wishes of Mom. 

I wanted to take a backstage tour of this really cool theatre downtown, but we didn't have time, and it was kinda expensive.  Maybe I will start saving up for a road trip down here with my husband and we can do some of these other things!!

For lunch we ate at Panera Bread.  I was super excited when we saw this place.  I have heard stories about these places, and wanted to experience it for myself.  One word review: delicious!  The sandwich was delicious, the bread was delicious, and the smoothie was delicious.  About the Smoothie:  Low fat and delicious.  Creamy and smooth and cold, and perfect flavor.  Did I mention Delicious??

All in all it was a great day.  We were all very tired at the end of it all but we had fun.  And did I mention the Delicious smoothie???

Road Trip!

I am currently in Nashville, Tennessee!!!!  I have only ever been here once in my life and that was over 10 years ago.  We only stayed the night in a hotel and left the next morning so it wasn't much of an experience.  Anyway, I am super excited to be here.  Today we are going to the capital building and the downtown area.  I expect it will be much fun, and I will write about it as soon as I get the chance. 

Why am I in Nashville two weeks before the start of summer camping season?  Well, I came with a fellow Camp Wife who has family here.  We left our husbands at camp to do all the work.  (we don't work anyway so this isn't a big deal!)  It was a 15 hour drive!!!!  We drove straight through, a few stops for gasoline, but other than that...

The trip was fun.  We had good discussions and saw some cool stuff.  We drove through St. Louis so we got to "see the Arch", and by "see the Arch" I mean just see it, we didn't visit, just drove by it.  Rather close by actually.  I have to say that the buildings in St. Louis are amazing.  The architecture is really old and rather creative.  It would have been fun to be able to visit them.  Oh how I wish I had my camera!!!

On the way we passed some strange places.  Oregon, Lebanon, Amazonia, and I don't know how many "villes"  It seems like every town down here is named "something"-ville.  Crazy!!!!!

There are trees everywhere here!  Surrounding everything.  Most of the time, you can't see the other side of the interstate because there are so many trees in the median.  But it was beautiful.  So much green, leaves on trees even!! :)  I understand why people from other parts of the country think there is nothing in Nebraska.  Compared to this part of the country there isn't.  I still think Nebraska is beautiful though.  I love being able to see for miles and miles.  And the Sunsets.  Nebraska has the best sunsets!

I will try to update you about what else we do on the trip.  Hopefully I will be better at posting on this thing than I have been the last month!!!

Oops...

So I realized today as I was reading my sister-in-law's blog that I ahven't posted for over a month.  Sorry everyone (all four of you)!!!!!