On the road again

Today, two weeks after our big trek home, John, a bunch of family, family friends, and I packed up and headed on over to the Outer Banks, NC for a little vacation. Thankfully, this trip was only 5 hours instead of 18! We didn't even listen to our iPod on the way down, but had fun talking, laughing, eating, and caravaning. We thought we had it good, filling up our tanks with $3.94/gallon gas, until we went a few more miles down the road and saw some for $3.83/gallon. D'oh! Better luck next time, I guess.

I've had bronchitis all week, so I'm not expecting to do much during the next couple days but relax and sleep--if the coughing will ever let me. Thankfully, it's been getting better day by day and I'll be up to horsing around on the beach soon. Poor John is looking forward to sleeping in since I've been keeping him up at nights with my cough and he's been going to work regularly during the week.

This week should be great fun though--vacationing in a large group is always pretty exciting. We're all taking turns cooking dinner for each other (there are 15 of us total, we split up in to groups) and I'm really interested in trying everyone's food! My group is making spaghetti and meatballs, a salad, and cheesy garlic bread--I figure you can't really mess any of those things up. For dessert, we're having the banana cream pie I promised I'd make my sister after she gave birth and got rid of her gestational diabetes, and my good friend is making crepes with a yummy mixed berry sauce.

You know how some people keep a Bible in their nightstand? I have apparently gone off the deep end. My beach nightstand is currently holding Martha Stewart's Baking Handbook. Why do I even have it on vacation with me? I'm not quite sure.


Oh, and can you believe it's June already?

...to the place, where I belong

We've arrived safely in Herndon, VA and already miss all those in Baton Rouge! We're eager to see everyone again in August. One thing I was not able to capture were all the beautiful wildflowers that greeted us along the way, most notably the happy little daisies that dotted the countryside--it's hard enough taking pictures of landscape when you're barreling down the road at 70 miles an hour, let alone a small patch of flowers. Sorry for all the hillside pictures, folks. I actually cut out over half of the ones I had taken originally. I just can't ever get enough of that green grass on blue sky. :)

Country road, take me home...

Delayed a day because of a faulty AC we needed to have fixed, we finally left Baton Rouge Sunday morning for a 10 hour trek to Knoxville, TN. The first part of the trip was filled with blue skies, but by the time we reached Georgia, we entered a heavy fog (I could not take any photos of the state signs of Georgia or Tennessee because of the darkness and fog). Tomorrow, we are on the road for another 8 hours, but we'll finally be home! :)