Ok. So I won't be going to David Bowie, but it isn't for lack of trying. His show sold out in 10 minutes. 10 MINUTES!!! Dammit. He isn't getting any younger you know, and I would like to see him before his 10th farewell tour on his 90th birthday.
Joel and I just returned from our honeymoon last night. It was very nice. We will post pictures soon I am guessing. I let Joel do that stuff so it looks nice. He got sick on our way there, his sinuses were kicking his ass, but that didn't slow him down too much.
On our way to Tennessee we stopped in Birmingham, AL to spend some time with Kristyn and Bryan. It was very cool to get to see Bryan when there weren't 10 teeny-boppers in a small living room screaming about how long it has been since they have seen Kristyn. Very nice to be able to just hang out in a dank and dark pub and listen to Frank Sinatra? Yeah, Frank Sinatra. How do the Irish feel about Frank Sinatra? I am not sure. I just know my dad loves him, and he's arabic.
We got to Tennessee... eventually. okay. I took a wriong exit and ended up in Deliveranceville, but Joel, being the GIS expert that he is, procured an atlas and got us back on track. Good thing, too. It was starting to get just a little scary. It was a scenic detour, though.
Once we got where we needed to go, we met up with my brother and went out to lunch with him and his fiance. She works at the Ripley's Aquarium so we got to go there to check out the new exhibit of "They Abyss". It was cool. You can't have too many creatures from the abyss in an aquarium, though, but they did have a few cool animals that are able to survive in tanks. We got to go behind the scenes, too and saw where they prep the food for the animals and how they feed them (thru cool Jetson-like tubes. It gets sucked from the prep room into the tanks, its pretty cool) They showed us sick animals they were trying to help, and the holding area for extra animals that they don't have room for in the tanks or animals that don't play well with others. They send those animals off to other aquariums. It was very neat.
We played goofy golf and then went into the National Park and it was freekin' cold. There was snow still on the trees as we went up the mountain. We got out of the car at Newfound Gap and a gust of wind hit us and we decided to go back in the car. We were not prepared for that weather. We stopped off at a quiet walkway and walked around a bit further down the mountain, it wasn't as cold there, but it was still cold. Thats about it. Pictures to come later....
pictures! want them now!!! the dog says hello.
Posted by: kristyn marie at March 20, 2004 11:53 AM