Tennessee

Clearly, I have not posted in a long time, and I have some catching up to do. I think I am now caught up on books, but life...not so much.

The weekend of the 15th, we went to Tennessee for a wedding, with a stop in the small town of Dyersburg to visit my husband's relatives. It was a wonderful, but exhausting trip; we went non-stop pretty much the whole time. Chris has been very into the genealogy thing, and had some cemeteries he wanted to explore and see if he could find ancestors. We found quite a few; it was really neat. We also got a digital voice recorder and he recorded 5 or 6 hours of various relatives telling stories.

And everyone was so nice, and they fed us extremely well...maybe too well. Barbecue everywhere we turned, and Aunt Hester made Chris' favorite strawberry cake. We did get separated by gender at dinner that night, which was disconcerting at first, but turned out okay...I connected with the female relatives while Chris got the men talking history.

We also got see two of our really good friends from Atlanta, who are married. We just don't laugh as much with anyone else in the world. Such fun. The wedding itself, not so much fun. It was on the river in an unenclosed tent and under normal circumstances would have been gorgeous. Sadly, it was unusually cold, maybe in the 40s. I never took of my coat, my scarf, etc., and I'm really glad I bought a pair of gardening gloves in a drugstore to keep my fingers warm. They weren't pretty, but I attribute my withstanding the night to them.