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Our Nashville Trip (a quick wrapup)

Yes, I know, this trip was a week ago. In retrospect, going out of town the weekend before Thanksgiving was not the best timing, because I was crazy busy the first half of the week getting ready to cook my part of dinner. Then, since Thursday, either my boyfriend or I or both have been sick. I'm feeling better today, so maybe I can finally tell you about our trip.

The Loveless Cafe

The Google Maps route to the Loveless Cafe from our house is one of the most convoluted trips I've ever taken. Somewhere, probably about the time we realized we had to go over that REALLY TALL overpass on the Natchez Trace Parkway (which was beautiful, btw), we wondered if Google had us lost.

But finally, we saw the sign, and we are so glad TW recommended this place to us. It was awesome! I had the fried chicken, and my boyfriend had a country ham breakfast. He also had a blueberry pancake with syrup. And the biscuits there were the heaviest I've ever seen, but so good! I would definitely recommend this restaurant to everyone.

The rest of the evening

Unfortunately, the pancake and syrup did a number on my boyfriend's blood sugar, so we spent the rest of the evening at the hotel. The hotel was really nice, and we liked it a lot. We didn't get to use our reservations at the seafood buffet to end all seafood buffets, but we did relax and eventually had a hamburger from room service. We didn't get to the hotel in time to see the Alabama/Auburn game, but we're kinda glad we didn't.

The Game

First off, the parking situation is CRAZY! I'm used to going to see the Braves play, and, last time I did, anyone who had a ticket could park in the lots around the stadium. We didn't know that the Titans lots required a parking pass! A nice police officer explained that we could drive over the river bridge and park several blocks past it. Are you kidding me?! We paid the Ramada Inn $35 to park in their lot right across from the stadium entrance, and it was the best $35 I spent all weekend :)

It was the first time I'd seen tailgating up close, and I was amazed how all-out some people went. I was also amazed at the amount of alcohol consumption at 9am. We had some soda and a bag of Doritos, and that was fine with us.

One lesson I learned: never buy tickets in the 300 sections. To get to the 300 sections, you walk up a series of ramps. When you see the ramps, you are lulled into a false sense of relief that you aren't going up stairs. After you walk up the mile of ramps, you wish you'd walked two flights of stairs instead. Then you have to walk up the stairs to your seat, which is probably another mile. Once I got to my seat, it took several minutes to get over the 'I will fall to my death if a make a move' feeling. I didn't move again until we left just to avoid walking up those damn stairs again.

The game, on the other hand, was awesome! We could pretty well see what was going on down on the field (it was kinda like watching Oompa Loompas play), and, because we were in the sun, it wasn't that cold. The Titans played well, but, as they've done all season, they couldn't get those last few points to win. They're still my boys, though, and they were well worth watching.

My Nashville pics are posted

I finally posted my pictures from Nashville in a new Flickr set. I'll tell y'all more about the trip tonight.

I'm back and uploading pictures

We're back from our great Nashville trip, but, before I can upload my pictures from the weekend, I have to upload the pictures I've taken the last few weeks.

I created a set for pictures I took in Speake, Alabama.

I uploaded pictures of our Halloween pumpkins, including my cool wolf pumpkin.

And, of course, there are two new Jackson pictures: reclining and in profile.

Now I'm going to work on my Nashville pictures :)

Nashville, here we come! :)

I'm so excited about our weekend trip! We're leaving here around noon tomorrow and stopping to have lunch at the Loveless Cafe (thanks, TW!). Then it's on to the hotel to watch the Alabama/Auburn game.

We did some research on the web and found an interesting sounding seafood restaurant called New Orleans Manor. We've decided to give it a try; I'll let you know how it is.

Sunday is the game. The Titans have lost a lot of close games, and, even though we don't think they can beat the Jaguars, we hope for a good game. I've never been to an NFL game, and I wonder if it's a neat as going to an MLB game.

I do know one thing: we're going to freeze to death. My boss told me to make sure to take my glove because, as a developer, my fingers are my money :)

Comments not being emailed

For some reason today, comments are being emailed to me. I've contacted hosting support, so hopefully it will be fixed soon.

Update: My comment emails are working again. Thank you, nice SmarterLinux support guy! :)

48 days in fast forward

We just finished watching tonight's episode of 'Lost,' which showed what the other survivors went through their first 48 days on the island. Was I the only one that immediately knew the guy running out of the jungle at the beginning of the episode was one of the Others?

They don't take the ones who aren't good people, huh. And the children are fine; they're better off. Interesting. I guess I can see how Walt is better off running around the jungle, wet and speaking backwards...not.

On a non-Lost note, it is freakin' cold here! Yesterday, the high was in the 70s. Today, it was in the 40s. Yes, I know it's not as cold as it is other places, but it's pretty chilly for an Alabama November. I bet it will be cold in Nashville this weekend, too. Good thing I bought a stadium throw to take with us.

Guess how we're spending Saturday afternoon once we get to Nashville. If you guessed sitting at the hotel watching the Alabama/Auburn game, you'd be right :)

What geeks do when they can't sleep

I woke up at midnight with a severely upset tummy, and my anti-nausea medicine that usually knocks me out didn't. So why put off my return to the land of the blog-living if I'm not going to be able to sleep anyway?

My new job is going well, and I had my first application release today. It took a week or so, but I've finally got my head wrapped around the applications for which I'm responsible. And everyone seems pretty nice. Of course, as usual, I'm the only girl geek there.

November is going to be a super busy month for us. My boyfriend and I are going to Nashville this weekend to watch the Titans play. Anyone have a recommendation for a nice but not terribly expensive restaurant that won't require us to dress up?

Am I the only one that isn't even close to being prepared for the holidays?