Hows my little Titan?

Last weekend Laura and I ventured south for a change to visit my sister and brother-in-law (AKA Sister's husband) in the great land of Tennessee. Like the last time I approached the Mason Dixon line I realized, gosh the area around here is so pretty! Aside from the massive culture shock I would love living in this part of the country in the just about every time of year, except spring, summer, and fall, because I'm sure those months are way better just about anywhere else north of there.

Amanda and Andy were gracious hosts, we ate their food dirtied their sheets and I didn't find myself anywhere but my bed in the middle of the nights, so that was good.



Saturday we Adventured out into Tennesse where we Checked out a cotton field (which was legitimately interesting, and fun). Then we headed farther South to visit the Jack Daniel distillery, where they brew all four of Jack Daniel's Whiskey. Boy was that fun. Now that we are becoming pros at visiting places that make alcohol we can appreciate a good tour when we get one and Jack pulled through. (We only have one more wise man left!)



Fun fact that you may or may not know, the distillery is located in a dry county (only in the south right? haha) where during the prohibition era a law was enacted that made it basically impossible to repeal the alcohol prohibition from the county. The best part of any tour is trying a brewer's wares, at Jack Daniel you get a nice glass of their fine Lemonade. Although in fairness you can purchase a souvenir bottle of Jack Daniel's, which happens to have the whiskey inside.

After Jack we headed to a wonderful place to eat called Cahoots. It's an old jail and we got to eat in one of the old graffiti (not the good kind) cells. We had some fried pickles which were AMAZING! I drank a Yuengling, not sure how to say it still but this beer apparently hails from America's oldest brewery. It seems to me that it is a tragedy that they are still producing the same kind of gross recipe to this day.



After that we nailed 5 Geocaches in Lynchburg (none at the distillery surprisingly) and headed back to the Harvey residence to get ready for our Halloween shenanigans.



Halloween was a grand time. We went to a party, rocked out as Mickey and Minnie Mouse and enjoyed ourselves thoroughly. I managed to drop my mouse ears in a toilet, which was a little gross, but it was ok, I didn't pee yet. We saw lots of really great costumes including a sheriff, cavewoman, the new mad hatter, some queen woman, scary dead people, the progressive girl, a troll doll, a scary old lady and a few superhero looking people I couldn't place.





My Mickey Mouse costume was sexy to say the least. I wore all spandexy things and some itty bitty red shorts over it all, with a tail and ears. The shorts and tail was my Dad's from I'm pretty sure before I was born, when shorts that short may have been fashionable. Laura ever heard one girl exclaim I was wearing a speedo. which was not true although that might have been even better. My outfit was obnoxiously out of my comfort zone, but I still had a grand time. My Minnie mouse was cute as a button.


Laura lost her dots EVERYWHERE. We found them all over during the next few days. It really was amazing that we found dots in the weirdest places.