Trip to TN to visit the Grandparents!

Well, I had a birthday this past week. I hit the big 35. Seems like a nice round number. Maybe it means I'm all grown up.... Naw, couldn't possibly. Well, for my birthday, my parents bought us round trip tickets to TN. So we loaded up the duffel bag with an impossible amount of crap and jumped on the 2 hour flight to Nashville. From there is was a 2 hour drive to the mountain. Much better than a 10 hour drive from Naptown. Jamie was a little angel for the flight and not too bad on the car ride.

One of the points of our visit was to get a four generation photograph with Jamie, Dad, Grandpa and great Grandpa, so on Friday we went to Sears to get our pictures taken. Jamie thought the photographer lady was crazy. She kept making obnoxious silly faces and loud noises, none of which Jamie much appreciated.





Yeah, that was about the best we could do. Pretty sad, huh?

Back home, Jamie was all smiles.

Here he is in his "Sunday, go to church" kilt:




with Ma's horses Cherokee "Cheeky" and Cino






Saturday, Christine and I did a nice long hike at Frozen Head State Park. No pictures, but here's a map:



Sunday Shawn came up for a visit and we hiked to the top of the mountain and descended via a new oil pipeline right of way. It was quite steep.