Late Update!

Bad blogger here.  I haven't posted in two months, so I'll just have you know that I took a trip to Virginia/Washington DC in January, and went down to Tennessee in early March.


January: VA/DC
Tony, Jake, Kacie, and I headed down to Virginia to visit a friend of the Hamorskys.  Phil is teaching math there, and lives in an apartment by himself, so we paid him a visit to keep him company.  While Phil was working during the day, we checked out the Smithsonian Museums (Space and Air, and Natural History).  We stopped to see the Capitol Building and the Washington Monument as well.  The food was insanely expensive, but it balanced out because the museums were free.  When we got back to Phil's apartment, we all cooked up some burgers and fries, played cards and watched the Avengers.  The next day, he didn't have to work, so together we went to the Holocaust Museum and visited some more monuments, including the Reflecting Pool and the Lincoln Memorial.  We had a good time, but there was so much more that we wanted to see, so hopefully we'll go back to visit Phil this summer!


(Two months later...)


March: TN
Tony, his parents, and I started off our spring break by road-tripping to eastern Tennessee.  We visited wedding venues in Gatlinburg, Maryville, and Sevierville, and we stayed with Uncle Ed and Aunt Patty in Knoxville.  We got a pretty good tour of the entire area during our many hours in the car.  It was fun to think about and actually start really planning our dream day, and we got to visit family in the meantime.  Aunt Lynda and Uncle Bob had us for dinner one night in Maryville, and they cooked up some awesome steaks and asparagus, and the most enormous baked potatoes probably in existence.  The next day, Uncle Ed and Aunt Patty took us out to dinner at a barbeque joint, and I got messy with my BBQ ribs.  Again, it was a long way to go for a short time - we spent a long weekend there, but the nine hour drive is killer.  Next time, I look forward to bringing my parents to see what we're scheming up for our mountainous wedding :-)