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.