Anniversary ATL BNA Vincent Andrews, NC Pt. 3

***WARNING!!! If you have not read parts 1 and 2 of this Anniversary ATL BNA Vincent Andrews, NC series yet, scroll quickly down to part 1 and start there, then read part 2, then this one as the 3 blogs are written as if they were 1 large blog broken apart into 3 parts and it won't make as much sense if you start with, say, part 2. Thank you for your cooperation!***



Part THREE!!

I took my mountain bike up with us since Amy and Brian are also bikers. Brian decided he'd rather stay with his parents' boat instead of riding so Amy and I headed out for the 8-mile loop trail. Just as we got going, it started to rain. And it rained for a majority of our 2-hour ride. Needless to say, the trail was a tad muddy in spots. But it was one of the best rides I've ever been on. Check out the clean feet compared to the rest of me in this post-ride shot:



And here's my bike after the mud dried out:



Then it was time to try our hand at water skiing on Lake Fontana. We both did really well for our first time according to the seasoned veterans with us.

Allison first...

And then me...

Finally, a dusk shot from the porch of the house, looking at Lake Nantahala. It doesn't get much better than this.



I figured out, here on the last post, that if I make the thumbnail photos small instead of medium like the ones in the other 2 posts, it lets me post more than 3. Weird. Oh well. We hope you enjoyed reading and viewing. Stay tuned for more cuteness from Vincent. :-)

Anniversary ATL BNA Vincent Andrews, NC Pt. 2

Welcome to the continuation of the post below.

The next morning after the ATL, we got up and flew to Nashville to visit with Patrick and Lydia for a day or so. We went to Opryland land where the original Gaylord mega convention center/hotel/miniature New Orleans inside/etc is. I thought the Gaylord Texan in Dallas was big. After that, we drove down music row where all the big Nashville recording studios are. Dinner that night at the Watts' was fantastic and was followed by a game of Cranium and a rather intense Uno match.



After returning to the ATL from the BNA Sunday afternoon, we went to our normal Sunday group get-together. Then, even though it was about 9:30pm, we drove 45 minutes west, almost to Alabama, where we picked up our freshly-weaned-off-of-momma 6-week-old kitten whom we named Vincent, or Vinny for short. Here he is the following morning, checking out the porch for the first time.



He is absolutely the cutest thing ever. Yes, I said that. There's no better way to describe it. We take pictures constantly.

This weekend, that's still happening for another few hours as I type right now, we took a road trip up to Andrews, North Carolina, just south of the Great Smokey Mountain National Park. The aforementioned Sunday church group we meet with includes 3 other young kid-less married couples, one of which has parents that own a lake house in Andrews. Awesome! We all caravaned up Friday night and hit the lake Saturday. All of us have been married around a year except the host couple, Amy and Brian, who have been married 5 years.



If you're counting, that's picture number 3, so you'll have to scroll up to Part 3 to continue.

Anniversary ATL BNA Vincent Andrews, NC Pt. 1

Can you believe it? A post written by Dave? I know, I know, I'm amazed too.

Allison told me I don't have to go into major detail, just a summary, so here's our latest life happenings in summary form. This covers basically what we've done from our anniversary on July 23rd until today, August 6th, incidentally Dad Greene's birthday.

Happy b-day to him. :-)

So we anniversaried by going to dinner at Cheesecake Factory, Crystal Cruises-style. Appetizers, wine, entrees, cheesecake and coffee. After that, we had a drink at the Sun Dial bar/restaurant/observatory at the top of the Westin Hotel in downtown Atlanta, much like Reunion Tower in Dallas. We seem to have a thing for rotating stuff during romantic moments. Sorry, sorry, I'm getting out of summary form. Too many details.

Allison's folks came into town the next day. We ate our cake tops that were expertly stored and frozen by Allison's mom.



And in traditional fashion, we took them to the Georgia Aquarium, Allison's 3rd time to attend, my 2nd. I know it looks like we're at a strange Ikea, but this really is at the Aquarium.



Next, without explaining why we did this (there is one), Cindy, Drew, Allison and I queued the movie ATL. It's about these 2 inner-city brothers from "the ATL" (Atlanta) who are about to graduate high school, etc, etc. Here we are acting like thugs after the movie:



And now it looks like Blogger won't let me put more than 3 pictures in 1 post so I'll be breaking this up into pieces, which, as you read this you already knew since you probably read the post at top of the blog first where I instructed you to scroll down and read this one first. :-)