Sweet Home Alabama

...where the sky is not always blue, especially in winter, when it's largely grey with greyer clouds...

...where the governor is generally a moron...

...but where I will be spending the holidays with my beloved family!

that is all

Wednesday Morning

Wow...It has been a delightful visit up to now, and it's barely just begun.

We arrived around 8:00 am, as expected. The drive took just about 14 hours, due to numerous stops involving the mutt. She was actually good for most of the trip, but every time we'd come to a stop in some town, she'd start howling, ostensibly to get out of the car and run around, but when we'd let her out, she wouldn't eat or drink, and didn't want to do much more than just sniff around. We didn't stop at every town we came to, just about once every two hours. It was rather interminable, and neither of us got much sleep at all.

We spent most of the day just resting, and fell asleep on the couch for about two hours. There was church in the evening, of course, and everyone was so happy to see us. *Kyle enjoyed seeing everyone as well, but I was exhuberant.

For the evening, we visited further with mom, dad, and the boys until about 10:30 or so, then decided to go on to Frank and Ava's. They were still up, so we chatted for a bit, discussing news and movies, etc. They saw The Last Samurai and were enthralled as we had been. They're people, so it's a good thing. :) I used to have a hard time dealing with Ava because I thought for years that she just didn't like me. I'm past that now.