Alright...it's been a while...a long while...here's a quick up to date...
April also brought my debut as a mini-golfer, let's just say I need a lot of practice! Also, Logan helped me pick out a cruiser bike that would make any normal person insanely jealous.............and he helped me fit it inside my 4door Volvo! That was an award-winning performance, if i say so myself! Twenty minutes or so after we bought it, we had the front passenger seat rolled back as far as it went, the passenger window down, with the handlebars sticking out, and the driver's seat was rolled as far forward as it could go-with me still being able to fit in there to drive! Logan was in the backseat, straddling the seat rest from the front seat and I was laying on the steering wheel driving like a little old lady! Guess where the camera was. Not with us! We got the bike to my apartment without getting pulled over by the cops, and at the end of April, we took our bikes on a 14 mile round trip ride to the dam and back-that was so fun.......the start of summer!
Christmas was fun-Nathan came in for the holidays, and that was great to see him. Logan and I celebrated on a different day, because we each went to our families for Christmas day. We walked around downtown Chattanooga and looked at the lights, and that was so much fun! We got New Year's Eve together, complete with sparkling white grape juice and the NYC countdown.
February brought Valentine's Day and my 25th birthday. This was also the month that I returned to the stage after a 8 month break! I starred as "Elaine Harper" in the play "Arsenic and Old Lace". It was a blast, and almost all of Logan's family came down to see it! I share a birthday with the other girl cast as "Elaine" (we split the run of the show, she got closing weekend, I got opening weekend) and in between shows on our birthdays, almost the entire cast went out to lunch. The waiters brought us sombreros and dessert, and they sang to us-then Taylor (the other birthday girl) and I snuck out of the restaurant with the sombreros..........only to later find out that we actually got to keep them! The idea of being bandits on our birthdays seems cooler, so we are sticking with that story!
March brought a trip to Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, South Carolina. I had never been there, and myself and a herpetologist from the aquarium went to see their collection and network with other keepers. Very cool-although the rain was not so much fun. March was also a tourist trip to Nashville for me and Logan, who was a great tour guide! We went to the Country Music Hall of Fame, looked around the Wildhorse Saloon, and walked down second avenue and all of the typical Nashville sights. We were going to tour the Ryman, but Kenny Chesney and the Steve Miller Band were recording a CMT Crossroads episode that night, and they were rehearsing in there. Security was tight, so we could hear them, but not go in. Bummer! We also went to the Nashville Zoo (a lot of animals were inside because it was so cold) but it was fun-especially the meerkats! We ate at the Hard Rock Cafe (Logan's first time to eat there) and we took tons of photographs!
April was the month of Logan's award-winning play! He wrote a play called "Life Without Tom", and it won a staged reading at the Chattanooga Theatre Center-very exciting! His family came in, and it was awesome to sit next to the writer of this piece that had everyone laughing and thinking. HE DID THAT! That's talent folks!
April also brought my debut as a mini-golfer, let's just say I need a lot of practice! Also, Logan helped me pick out a cruiser bike that would make any normal person insanely jealous.............and he helped me fit it inside my 4door Volvo! That was an award-winning performance, if i say so myself! Twenty minutes or so after we bought it, we had the front passenger seat rolled back as far as it went, the passenger window down, with the handlebars sticking out, and the driver's seat was rolled as far forward as it could go-with me still being able to fit in there to drive! Logan was in the backseat, straddling the seat rest from the front seat and I was laying on the steering wheel driving like a little old lady! Guess where the camera was. Not with us! We got the bike to my apartment without getting pulled over by the cops, and at the end of April, we took our bikes on a 14 mile round trip ride to the dam and back-that was so fun.......the start of summer!
What has May brought so far? Well, the one year marker from our first date, and what an amazing year. There will be plenty of other great moments this month and this year, and I can't wait to make them memorable! Here's to a great summer!