So much to do and I find myself not really interested in doing any of it. I think the next couple of weeks are going to fly by way to fast as I have christmas at work, and christmas at home, then Bowl trip to Memphis and a possible drive to Peoria in January. Should be a fun couple of weeks, especially if this blasted snow goes away.
I will be going back to Memphis on January 1st to watch my Pirates play in the Liberty Bowl. I find it funny the role of Memphis in my life these last 13 years. That’s how long it has been since East Carolina went to the Liberty Bowl last. I was still in High School then and I made the trek with my parents to watch ECU beat Stanford on a cold dreary day. Later, I would live in Memphis for exactly one year and the city left me with some good moments, but overall, not really my kind of vibe. I’m debating where I should hit on my very short stay, coming in the 1st and leaving the 3rd. Even with only spending a year in a place, you can develop lots of favorites and it will be hard to do any of them justice. I’m interested to see how downtown has progressed. When I went as a teenager it was a wasteland besides Beale st. While I lived there the Fed Ex Forum had been built, and the Peabody Place mall made downtown nice and safe and more than just Beale St. Autozone Park is one of my favorite Baseball stadiums I’ve ever been in. Now Tower Records is bankrupt so I wonder what anchors that mall? I guess I’ll find out in less than three weeks. Of course, a Pirate Victory and I’ll be happy with the rest of the festivities, whatever they may be.
Jessica has uploaded a lot of our pictures from our trip to Seattle and Glacier National Park Here
I uploaded the Peas Page early today as tommorow we are off for our train trip to Glacier and then on to Seattle after that. Ill be updating through twitter when possible so youll be able to follow our journey below if you wish to. Next weeks peas page will be up Late Saturday instead of friday.
finally home. it is very good to be home. even better. stimulus check! 2 minutes ago from web
On road home going 2 rochester 1st about 9 hours ago from txt
Boarded in seatle last twitter til mn sat great trip 05:35 PM May 29, 2008 from txt
Chinatown 4 lunch then pink godzilla 01:41 PM May 29, 2008 from txt
At seatle art museum 11:09 AM May 29, 2008 from txt
In chinatown eating a corn ham bun 10:14 AM May 29, 2008 from txt
Great diner with freinds in seatle nice 08:54 PM May 28, 2008 from txt
That was cool now at emp 02:10 PM May 28, 2008 from txt
At the scifi museum 12:31 PM May 28, 2008 from txt
Piroshkies! 11:55 AM May 28, 2008 from txt
What a full day’ seattle is cool 12:26 AM May 28, 2008 from txt
At pike place market 02:59 PM May 27, 2008 from txt
Too much food this trip a bento box half eaten 02:05 PM May 27, 2008 from txt
In seatlle! 12:21 PM May 27, 2008 from txt
train not going 2 seatle bc of a fire yesterday busing us from pasco wa 07:57 AM May 27, 2008 from txt
Finaly a signal glacier was beautiful 07:54 AM May 27, 2008 from txt
On train in lounge car awesome 10:12 PM May 23, 2008 from txt
At train station board at 1030 08:21 PM May 23, 2008 from txt
need to clean the house before heading out. so exciting! 08:57 AM May 23, 2008 from web
so yesterday did not go so well. The car is at a Firestone in Davenport (about an hour away). still havent heard whats wrong with it so that does not bode well. Will have to figure out how to get to work tommorow. no bus line on sunday. And then get back out to Davenport this week. Overall it could have been worse. But it did make for a very long day.
So we just got home from Cedar Rapids. We left this morning with thoughts of being home for dinner. We started at CSPS, a neat gallery space in the mostly empty ‘Arts District’ of Cedar Rapids and hit a Gallery up the road as well.
We had a great lunch at a Vietnamese Resturant on 8th Ave. Nothing like a bowl of Pho on a cold day. Then we headed for downtown Marion where we lost track of time looking at Antiques and getting some Yummy chocolates. Stopped by Alter Ego and procured some half off trades, and then ventured into Collins Roads Theatres to see Jumper. Pretty enjoyable flick actually. Headed across town for CiCi’s for way too much pizza and stopped by the dead mall known as Westdale to walk off the buffet before heading home. Fun day off in Cedar Rapids. Who Knew?
