Coming Home

Coming home was the agenda for today.  We had a plan to get up early and get started around, oh, 6ish.  That didn't happen.  We dragged.  We had the really bad Comfort Suites continental breakfast and set out for home around 8:30.  I'd say we were a little off the mark there.  No big deal.  We could just get going and head right home.  Then we embarked on a souvenir finding adventure that we never knew would be so intense.  Have you ever traveled around and looked at souvenir shops and seen the little thimbles that they have for states?  Well, they are typically very easy to find.  Not today.  We had the devil of a time finding those darn things for someone that had requested them.  We stopped many times before we managed to find them.

We drove home through Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and finally home to Georgia.  This morning there was a light rain and then a beautiful day for driving.  It was a long ride and several hours longer than it would have been without the stops but we had a really great day.  After all is said and done, we had a fabulous trip.  There are a million little things that we did, saw, and have pictures of to remember forever.

I took 2504 pictures to document our experience.  I know, this is probably a little heavy handed with the shutter but I will never use all the pictures for anything but looking back for the most part.  The beauty of digital camera is that you can take dozens of extras and only use the best pictures out of all those taken, never paying for bad shots.  I wish there had been a lot of chances for us to get shots together.  We did get a few.

The last picture I took before clearing out the camera...my beautiful new quilt.  Yesterday, I was really bummed that I didn't find a quilt in the Amish community.  They were all made in China.  Well, today I got me a bonafide Chinese quilt from the House of Quilts that is just beautiful and made no boast of being from Amish hands.  Plus, it was a much better price than I had found elsewhere. It was those thimbles that led me to it.  What luck!  What a price.  We will enjoy this for ages I am sure.

Now since we have made it home I hope you have enjoyed sharing the trip with us as much as I have enjoyed writing about it to share with you!