Viva Las...Virginia!

Folks, this is what love looks like.

Day one plan: Go to bed early Saturday night, wake up by 7/7:30, pick up rental car at 8:00, load car and finish odds and ends, shower, pack the car, hit the road by noon.

Day one reality: Bed At 3am, up at 8:00, rental at 8:30, exchange rental (tire issue), odds and ends, get ready, hit the road at 2.30.

Close enough, right??

For a quick minute we were a little stressed about being so behind, but then everything just became hilariously funny.  Ya know, the first day is usually a lot of straight up driving, just trying to escape NJ like it is Azkaban or something. Although, as far as sightseeing goes, today was slight less less eventful than the days to come, we definitely relearned some basic lessons.

Such as:

1) Make sure to get adequate rest, especially if the unexpected happens and your GPS expects you to  end up behind the wheel until 2:30am. Oh GPS, you make us giggle.

2) Eat healthy, balanced meals to keep your energy and focus up. For example, EIGHT soft pretzels between two people would not be a good idea...especially if you chase them with BBQ Pringles, which, as you know, once you make the decision to pop, the fun just can not be stopped.

3) Refognjze when GPS decides it's time for a fun game of eternal loop and sends you in circles when you are searching for a rest stop ~ thanks to coffee for that one too!

See, I'm saying all of this as if we didn't have fun, but it was QUITE the contrary! We drove through cascading hills and farmland while listening to (and enthusiastically singing) Bell Biv DeVoe and (good) Britney as the background music to our laughter (this goes back to what I said before about traveling with the right person!)

Free Smells!

For dinner we stopped at Crackerbarrel and had one of the best waitresses ever. She was seriously the sweetest (shout out to Erin!) from here we stopped at the 'bucks and drove for a couple more hours before deciding to call it an "early" night around 12 and find a hotel.

So, we are still in Virginia, close to the border of NC, but sometimes it is just time to sleep.  So that is what we are going to do!

Tomorrow we are heading to the Titanic Museum in Tennessee and then to Nashville for some shenanigans! A couple of people have mentioned that we should consider doing some video posts so tomorrow we are thinking of attempting that as well.

Sweet dreams!

Love,
Pat + Deb

Andie - The Stowaway...Missing The Kitties Already.