Hey friends! How do you like the new look of my blog? I decided to go super girly, because the truth is, I am super girly. I hope you are all having a fantastic summer. It's hard to believe it's coming to a close, but that's fine with me because fall is my favorite season and Halloween is my favorite holiday! Jameson and I already have tickets to the first University of Tennessee football game and I'm itching to break out all my fall decor. It's still 90+ degrees outside, but my mind has moved on to fall.
We have been extremely busy since the last post; Jameson turned 27, we took a trip to Atlanta (which, by the way, was not at all what I thought it would be. I think I need to head to Savannah to satisfy my romantic antebellum visions of hoop skirts and lemonade on the terrace), but best of all Jameson and I got to participate in a southern tradition few will get the chance to enjoy.
Up until now we've encountered just a handful of the honky tonk folk we expected when we moved to Tennessee. A lot of people down here don't even have accents. We were starting to think all the movies and TV shows that filled our minds with redneck folklore were full of it, but 2 weeks ago we were invited by our landlord, who happens to be the nicest guy on the planet, to the mecca of all things white trash where we discovered where all those rednecks have been hiding, NASCAR! Nestled in the hills of the small town of Bristol, TN lies a mammoth 160,000 seat stadium known as the fasted 1/2 mile in the world. We had to park about 1/2 mile away and walk through literally thousands of camper trailers and mullets to get inside, but once we found our seats and the race began I admit I caught a bit of NASCAR fever. Watching those cars speed around that tiny track with deafening power that rattles your chest was one of the coolest feelings I've ever experienced. I'm not saying I'm ready to put a couch on my front porch and a confederate flag on the grill of my RAV 4, but there's a lot more to the sport than I thought and being there is nothing like watching it on TV. It was awesome and I'm so glad we got to go.
We are looking forward to this weekend as we are headed to Alabama to see Jameson's sister for the holiday. I hope you all have plans to party this weekend and that you are all safe and happy. Happy Labor Day! Do we say that? Happy Labor Day? Well I guess I do! Hey if any of you need a laugh and haven't seen this already, watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzNhaLUT520 then watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMtZfW2z9dw.
Yay! Our first fish, we let it go, it was dumb.
Didn't catch anything, but it was fun.
This is from our balcony, we get one of these every night.
It was so loud, so incredibly loud. At night I can still hear the engines!
So remember how I said we've only run into a few Billy Bobs, well here's one.
Yes that is a beer coozy around his neck and he is complete with pink crocs.
He runs the marina by our condo and I can't understand a word he says.
I bought this chair for $15 on craig's list.
Voila! I'm trying to be handy and crafty. Pretty good for my first run, no?
Yeah, I make stuff.
