Home Sweet Home

View from our hotel room

Grandma and Will at Camp

Lunch with Polly

Kathy's House in Macon

Home Sweet Home in Grandma's House

We checked out of the Dahonega hotel and drove Grandma around the city. It was fun to see all of the places on the square where we have spent much time during the summers there. We met Will at the Welcome Center of Camp Glisson. When Cody and Katie were leaving camp, Grandma was so used to following them, that she tried to get back into the jeep rather than going with Will. It was cute. Grandma loved the camp. She said she understood why we liked working up there so much. She was very happy to see Will, too. It was not hard to say goodbye to Will because he is coming home the next day!

We met Aunt Polly for lunch at Atlanta Highway Seafood Market which was excellent. It was a very unique market that also served great seafood in its restaurant. It was great to see Polly, and we arrived all at exactly the same time.

Next we continued our journey down to Macon where we had coffee at Cody's mom's house. It was wonderful to see her. Grandma LOVED her house and saw how talented she is with her art. We all enjoyed the break and time to catch up with her in her fun house.
We arrived home about nine o'clock last night. Nancy was very glad to see us and loved her "hog whisperer" t-shirt Grandma got her at Pappy's in St. Louis.  When Cody parked the red jeep in the garage, the trip odometer was at 2,697 miles. That's a lot of driving! It was weird to say goodbye because we are all used to staying together now. We are having a family reunion dinner together tomorrow night with Michael and Martha and Will and Brayton since everyone will be home then.

On the ride home, we talked in the car about our favorite parts of the trip. St Louis was everyone's favorite city. Everyone liked how friendly everyone was there and how the pace of the city wasn't rushed. All the museums and music were also great. Our favorite hotel by far was the Hampton Inn in Nashville. It was decorated with instruments, the people at the desk were friendly, and they had the biggest hotel rooms any of us had ever stayed in. We had too many great restaurants to choose a favorite, but some of them stood out in our minds. Cody really liked the pizza place in St. Louis called Pi, Katie loved The Dizzy Gypsy in Little Rock, and Grandma liked the Thai place in Nashville called The Smiling Elephant because its name and how unique its architecture was (and of course the food). That's just a handful though of all the things we enjoyed on our trip.

Thank you all for following our blog. We hope you enjoyed the trip as well.