Ok, so I am bad at updating this thing! Here is a recap for 2011, then I will get caught up on 2012 and hopefully be MUCH better at staying on top of this!
Early 2011 started out with snow.......and lots of it! This is the Tennessee Aquarium plaza........several staff members stayed in hotels downtown so they could get to work, and then they shoveled pathways to each building! It was 3-4 inches everywhere, maybe even more! I walked to work and you could not tell where the curb was or see any difference between the road and the sidewalk!
Logan and I also discovered this great new miniature golf place downtown! (PS - Miniature Golf was invented by the man who opened Rock City in the 1920's-1930's......originally called Tom Thumb golf because of the fairy tale theme of Rock City-Chattanooga started mini golf folks!) It is one of our favorites, and we usually win a free round or a complimentary soda when we play! For my birthday we played mini golf and ate at our favorite breakfast place, Aretha Frankenstein's, known for their "monster" biscuits!
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| Scenic City Mini Golf |
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| mmmm.........biscuit! |
Spring 2011 brought a trip to Nashville to celebrate A's birthday, and also a trip to Bowling Green, Kentucky to visit O at her graduate school. We toured the Corvette Museum and had a blast! Keely also graduated from RBHS and I got to bike down from the Aquarium to watch her walk-go Keely!
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| Congrats Keely, from Ranger Rick! |
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| Remember when we took our Corvette to the beach?! |
Summer 2011-What a blast! Logan and I kicked our summer into gear with a bicycle ride the the dam and back, that's 14 miles round trip! Not a huge trek, but it is always tiring and so much fun! We always stop and admire scenery, and this time we saw a HUGE common snapping turtle! We got as close as we dared, but she was so big! We also did our annual trip to the Chattanooga Lookouts baseball game with Kirby and Elijah. They love hanging out with Logan and me, but sometimes I worry they talk his ear off! There was a visit to the Incline, a trip to Dollywood with Logan's family, E's birthday on July 4th, and the highlight of the summer, CHICAGO!!! Yes, O, E, Logan, and I took a road trip to Chicago to visit Ryan and we did so much sightseeing in just 3 days! It was hot but I had never been in such a big, bustling city, and seeing the Shedd Aquarium, the "Married with Children" fountain, the Museum of Science and Industry, and being right on the Great Lakes was so much fun! I want to go back!!!
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| Big mama snapping turtle! |
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| Screamin' Demon and Blue Thunder at the dam |
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| The boys at the Lookouts game |
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| My new favorite attraction at Dollywood! |
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| Incline Railway, Lookout Mountain, TN |
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| Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, IL |
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| Very close to Ryan's apartment-so cool! |
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| Chicago 2011...the whole gang! |
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| The Bean...........very unique art |
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| In the Willis (formerly the Sears) Tower-standing in a glass window with nothing below us!! AH! |
Finally Fall and Winter 2011 was filled with Logan's birthday, some fabulous mini golf at Grand Ole Golf, a visit from my great friend Tia (although it wasn't an easy trip with car trouble and a sick child), Thanksgiving, a Creative Discovery Museum play that Kirby and Eli worked on, a trip to Rock City's Enchanted Garden of Lights, and lots of fun!!!
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| Kicking some serious booty at Grand Ole Golf |
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| Emilia, Tia, Everett, and Me! |
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| Ha! Gobblers! |
All in all, a great year!
