Chicago & Tennessee

We left for Chicago early Tuesday morning and enjoyed some time at the Lincoln Park Zoo. While driving through major traffic in downtown Chicago, I was talking to my mom and she informed me that she almost miscarried me there...that was nice to know. It's a wonderful, free zoo and we enjoyed our time there. We had lunch with Mike & Elaine Small, although we have no pics, b/c they do not like to be photographed (didn't even take wedding pics--I'm starting to wonder if one of them is hiding from the law--or possibly something else...things that make you go hmmm...). We drove as far as we could and landed at a Holiday Inn Express around midnight, at the border of Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky (it's odd b/c we drove through a section of Eastern time, but then ended up back in Central time). We stopped in Nashville, TN to go to the Grand Old Opry (see how excited the kids were to get out of their car seats and RUN around?!) and had lunch with David's co-worker, Sandra and her husband John, at the Crackerbarrell. We made it to Bob & Nancy Grubb's home that afternoon and enjoyed good times with them and their grandson's--Aiden & Braiden. Bob was my dad's best friend and they came to our wedding in Gatlinburg (Bob was the guy in the dress, in that pic on the right). I got to see Irene for a little while before we left--I've known her since I was probably 8. Then we headed south, towards Alabama... on the road again...