The New Year's Icy Blast

We were driving home from Georgia on Thursday when we stopped at the rest area atop Monteagle. Opening the van door reminded us that winter is young and it means business. We’re supposed to be taking a dip into single digit temperatures over the next few days. Maybe we’ll get a little snow to change up the scenery a bit!

FUN WITH THE COUSINS. I left off telling about our Christmas last time, but for us the festivities continued with a trip down to Georgia for a visit with the Jones cousins. We left after eating lunch with Mom on Sunday and would have made pretty good time except for the traffic approaching Chattanooga.

Our trip was pretty typical. We spent our time playing games, watching movies, and eating. About the only deviation to this was out outing on Monday where we caught Frozen, one of Disney’s latest, at the movies and then went to Michael’s Pizzeria in Statham for supper.

VISITING AUNT SARA. While we were on our way home we dropped in to visit my cousin whom I call Aunt Sara (What do you call a cousin who is older than your mother?). She lives in an assisted living facility near her younger son, Bill, and seems to be doing quite well. We hadn’t seen her is several years and thoroughly enjoyed reminiscing, catching up, and cutting up.

CHRISTMAS IS OVER. Unless we get some snow we all have to get back into the routine of work and school this week. We’ve already taken down most of our Christmas decorations and packed them away. The house looks sad and I’m right there with it thinking about my vacation being over.

Vicki and I took the opportunity to go out on a date last night. We decided go head a different direction this time and drove up to Bowling Green where we caught a movie and ate supper. We ate at Mariah’s which is close to the town square and was very good.

The movie we saw was Saving Mr. Banks which we had been looking forward to seeing when we first saw the trailer. The movie, in case you don’t know, tells the story of Walt Disney acquiring the rights to Mary Poppins from the book’s grumpy, eccentric author, P. L. Travers. We both enjoyed the show and recommend you at least put it on your Netflix list.

And so, with that in mind, I am going to take a spoon full of sugar and enjoy my last evening of vacation before I have to face work tomorrow.

Joe