M and I took a day trip to Lynchburg, TN to visit the Jack Daniel's distillery. M had never been and I'd gone when I was really little, like 6 (yeah, my parents were responsible adults who too their children to a whiskey distillery, no biggie.)
M had had a couple rough weeks with work and family life, so I told him to keep his Saturday clear and I would plan something fun. I intended to keep it a surprise as long as possible (which is hard for me...) and all was going well until he knew which exit to get off at (he wouldn't let me drive) and we saw a billboard for the distillery and the same exit number.
Either way, he was excited.
The tour was great! The only thing I remembered from my childhood visit was that it smelled really, really bad. But I was a kid. I thought all alcohol was nasty. I'm not big on Jack (or any kind of whiskey...bad memories from college) but it was still really neat to see how it's made.
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| M and I with Jack on the Rocks! |
After the tour, we headed to the square in the booming downtown Lynchburg. They were having some sort of festival with live music and such. We decided to have lunch at the BBQ Caboose Cafe. It was a great hole in the wall place with delicious BBQ. They had a train that went around the entire place and had train lanterns hanging from everything.
After that, we walked around the square, ate ice cream and visited a gift shop where we bought charcoal made from the empty whiskey barrels.
That night was great, too, because met up with Brittany, Jimmy and Louis for the Nashville Sounds' game.
Last weekend I went to Memphis with several of my sorority sisters. It was our intention to go to BBQ fest, but it never really worked out. We walked down by the river to see how flooded the Mississippi was. We saw the movie Bridesmaids (which was hysterical!) and went out on Beale street.
I've been out on Bourbon street (which in my opinion is way better) but Beale Street was like a different world. For starters: the security just to walk down the street was worse than the Nashville airport. I guess Memphis is one of the most dangerous cities in America...oh well!
It was really nice to have some girl time, especially since I rarely get to see those ladies.
Now it's just a countdown for things to look forward to. First up is our trip to Las Vegas with M's company. His boss promised to take them all to Vegas if they received a certain award so many times. We're going June 3-5 with our airfare and hotel paid for. I've never been and I'm so freaking excited!
In mid summer we're hitting the beach! I'm very much looking forward to a whole week's vacation. It's been entirely too long.
So glad Summer's almost here!
1 comments:
Sounds like you have been a busy lady. Good friends, good fun and good food!! Congrats on the trip to Vegas. I've never been but someday hope to. Good to hear from you.
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