Road Trip - Day 10 (Tennessee)

Jessie pulled it off again....He drove through the night, catching a nap sometime between 6 - 8 in the am. We made it to Cookville, Tennessee for breakfast at Shoney's, barely missing the all-you-can-eat-breakfast-buffet (RATS! - like I needed that anway).

We loaded back up on the RV and headed towards Nashville to hang for a couple of days and to visit my brother Anthony.

While we are pit-stopped here Jessie has to take a quick day trip for work, so knowing how much we enjoyed the last hotel stop, he put us up in our favorite - Embassy Suites and got me a car so we could get out and about. While he went to get the car, we got settled and put the boys down for a nap.

When it was time for Daddy to leave us :(..., I went down to the lobby with Jessie to wait with him for his cab. Unexpectedly, Anthony showed up and told me that he wanted to take my boys with him to a friend's son's birthday party. I asked him three times to make sure he really wanted to do that :)...he assured me he was up to the challenge!

The boys were overjoyed to be going somewhere with their Uncle Nee-Nee.

Completely free and unfettered, the girls and I headed for the nearest mall!
(I couldn't decide which picture of Bessie and I that I liked better so I'm posting both)






We basically followed Gracie around.




Then we headed to Anthony's to meet him and the boys there with pizza. We were responsible for picking up the pizza.






This being the girls' first visit to his home, they made it their business to show themselves around, looking in every closet and cranny. Gracie discovered Anthony's guitar and made good use of it.




Wow...boy...the Mellow Mushroom Pizza was really good!
(And yes...check out the background...my brother is a bachelor and keeps a very posh and neat pad!)




Uncle Nee Nee brought my boys home wired, full of sugar, and with new toys. Needless to say, his pad wasn't so posh when we got ready to leave. I tried, really I did but being as how he made it like Christmas with new toys, and made sure they were full of energy, I just did the best I could :)



More tomorrow!