Saturday- Drove North to Marion, Ky (2+ hrs) where we tried to live our dream of getting to know the amish; however, although kind and very talented, they don't seem to want to get to know us (my one attempt at chit chat ended quickly). Then we backtracked to Stake Conference in Paducah, Ky (1 hr). Once back at our hotel, at 9:30pm, Shay discovered that she craved a salad so I got her one at the huddle house down the road at a gas station.
Sunday- More stake conference and the drive home (2 hrs). We finally got a taste of what stake conference is like with an infant.
Monday-Thursday- Would you believe that VCR's are antiques now?! We spent two of our days in two of McKenzie's huge antique "malls" looking for a VCR (we need it to digitalize family movies). Out of at least 500 booths we found ONE... and had to return it because it ate our tape... Bummer.
We bought a plastic wading pool from Rural King (who cares about walmart... we have rural king). Trace loves it.
Friday- The worlds biggest fish fry is just 20 minutes north of us in Paris, TN... we had all you can eat fried fish, hushpuppies, vinegar cole slaw, and beans. The eating was great, and the few pieces of bottom feeder fish that I got were the only traces of mortality that attended the moment. The parade prior to the fish fry consisted of, what seemed like, hundreds of pageant children and rock band youth ministries. Based on the number of queens, princesses, 1st 2nd 3rd and even 4th attendants; everyone seems to be a winner in the Paris area
Saturday- We spent all day in Franklin; a historic civil war town just 20 miles south of Nashville where the most bloody 15 minutes of American History took place. We went to the temple, visited the Carnton Plantation, did some shopping, and stopped on our way out of town at the best BBQ joint we have been to so far. A festival was going on all day in the down town, but Shay insisted that we wade through the people just far enough to see if it truly was the town that the Hannah Montana movie was filmed in... and it was.
So thats it for our Spring break. We loved getting to visit some places we've been hoping to see while we're here and eating some really great southern food... School starts back up again on Monday. Here we go again!
Hotel In Paducah KY
AMISH
Travelin
Hangin At Home
SWIMMIN
FISH Fry
Nashville Temple
Franklin TN (Craley Corners)
BB's BBQ
