Our trip to the north.

Our trip to Pennsylvania was way too short, but I guess that's always the case when you have fun.  I'm not really sure what to say about it other than we covered a lot of ground in just a few days, my brother is hilarious and therefore fun to be around, southern hospitality and manners really are limited to the south, and I wish my brother and his girlfriend lived closer.

On Saturday we went down to Baltimore to explore the city a little and go to the aquarium, which I hadn't been to in over 10 years!  It's incredible how quickly time passes when you're an adult.  I took some pictures with a little juice box camera as well, and those are the pictures I'm most looking forward to seeing!

Other than that, it's back to work, work, work for me.  Oh, and laundry.  How have you been?

the road trip song game

i thought that instead of the usual vacation photo dump, i'd show a few pictures, but focus more on a little game chris and i made up on the way home to keep from falling asleep while traveling 80mph down the interstate.  the game kept us awake, and has us playing even though we've been home for a few days!

we found the game works best with those awful, corny 80's or 90's songs that no one seems to like, yet radio stations continue to play.  it all started with this little gem by whitesnake.  so, the real lyrics go, "i made up my mind, i ain't wastin' no more time, so here i go again."  and to make it fun, we came up with new lyrics that meant the same thing, but sounded a bit smarter: "i've come to a decision, i will start conserving my time, once again i will start."

we did that for the entire song (don't ask me how we knew all the words), to queen songs (but we do like queen), and to pretty much any song we knew!  now i can't wait for the next trip!  do you have any games that you play to pass the time?

roadtrip: north carolina pt. trois

Moving on from Clarksville and well on our journey to North Carolina, we met up with an interesting artist, Tommy Winn. His medium is wood and his tool is a chainsaw. Impressive. Since we went a new route, we didn't go through our usual North Carolina border towns, instead, we discovered a new one; Oxford, North Carolina. It was so wholesome and pretty, and I have the pictures to prove it! It's one of those, "blink-and you-miss-it" type towns. I'm glad my eyes were open.

roadtrip: north carolina, pt. un

For the last few days, the mister and I have been doing a little exploring on two wheels. Loaded with only the items that could fit in a backpack, we headed out (rather, sped like we were running from the cops) on our sport bike with our destination being Chapel Hill, NC, Greensboro, NC and all points in between. First stop, breakfast. I'm a light morning eater, but since it's the man's favorite meal, we went home cookin'. I had a bit of self control, but the same cannot be said for him. -P.S. If you're ever passing through South Boston, Virginia and looking for the best bacon on the planet, look for CJ's Country Kitchen. Good. Cheap.