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Old 05-20-2005, 10:14 AM   #1
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Got home from TN last night and couldn't have been happier. Had a good trip and all but all I could think was "I want to be home!"

Yesterday started off interesting - my aunt ended up going to the hospital around midnight with "chest/stomach pains." Fortunately it just ended up being gall stones but she had to have her gall bladder removed via laparascopy. Which isn't too bad, but she's a college prof and had to grade exams while waiting for surgery.

Then we got a little bit of a slow start, but made excellent time (cut off an hour) up until the god forsaken hellhole of Indianapolis (I swear Adam, this is not a dig at you!). On our way down and missed my exit, cam this . close to getting into an accident, missed my exit again... then on the way up, missed our exit, ended up on wrong Istate twice and lost about an hour and a half. ERGH! We still made it up in 14 hours but I coulda done it in 12!

I have some great pics of our hike up in the Smokeys, which my mom has to email to me. It's so beautiful but I'm terrified of heights.

Oh yeah, I saw the biggest bee ever! Holy crap. I am not exaggerating when I say this thing was 3 inches long and about the size of a US quarter around. Scariest thing ever.

Anyhow, back to the grind. I have like 8 million things to be doing but I wanted to relax a bit first.
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ha ha those left side exits will mess with you
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Sounds like good times (I love the Smokeys) - can't wait to see the pics!
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Originally posted by agriadam@May 20 2005, 12:23 PM
ha ha those left side exits will mess with you
Yeah the left handed ones got me in Conn. before. I was going down the road waiting for like exit say 32 or something and I am in the right lane since I just went by 33 and next thing I know I see it on the other side of the road and then come up on 30. I was just like "why the heck would they do that to people?"

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Yeah in Indianapolis, they also like to put the exit signs right after the third consecutive overpass, so you don't see it until you're right there. Haha, they must think it's funny. I'm waiting for my mom to get me those pic of TN. There's some cool ones.
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so did you figure out how your going to deal with all the invites that got sent out?
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