tender TN Christmas

We traveled to Nashville for Christmas for a visit to Jill's side of the family. Her parents, sis-in-law's sister & husband, and we all stayed at Matt & Lupita's house. Jill and I were in the office/ aquarium room. Listening to water flowing into the aquarium is quite soothing before falling asleep.

A brief aside. During our foster parent training, we heard numerous stories of awful families. Due to grace or just dumb luck (I think the former), Jill and I both landed in amazingly terrific families. Case in point, 4 families in a 3 bedroom house was a blast.

A highlight of the trip was an outing to the TN aquarium in Chattanooga. The aquarium is spread over two buildings, one had freshwater with a focus on TN creatures (there are a lot of different types of turtles) and the other had seawater with some big sharks.

Even little Enoch enjoyed watching the fish!

Jill and I took a trip to downtown Nashville. On Chrissy's (Vandy alumnus) recommendation, we visited Robert's Western World to listen to some live music. Of course there was live music at noon on New Year's Eve. It's very cool to see bunches of musicians walking around downtown with their instruments.

Did we ride bikes at all during the week? Rest assured our friends that yes we did, on Matt & Lupita's Bianchi Avenues. Their neighborhood is decent to so-so for riding. Southeast Nashville is quite hilly and the roads wind through valleys and away from streams and train tracks. The pavement is excellent, but most roads are narrow and lack a shoulder.

Ricky is looking forward to riding soon!

Happy new year!