Friday the 26th was a busy day at the store. Not a lot of returns though. After work I had to stop at the Chatterbox to pay my tab for the sing-a-long, when we left there it was chaos and crowd so I promised to come back and remunerate on a later date. I did and then I thought about going to the Nap-Town Roller Girl party afterwards at Birdy's but I was just to beat from a season of sell, sell, sell. Besides Jenni wanted to go shopping and we were waiting for our care package from Florida and Meredith and Michael. So I headed home and she headed out. Now I can tell you that if a UPS package is tracked and it says it will be delivered on the 29th, it's not going to be delivered on the 26th even if it is at the Indy hub. We had decided on Christmas day that we would head south to Jenni's folks home and have a late Christmas stay with them two days later, over the weekend. Jenni's brother John and his new bride Jennifer were there too, and with our arrival all of the Mason sib's were home for the holidays. The drive down was rainy through the middle of Kentucky but by the time we got to Tennessee it was sunny and 75°. There was talk of putting the top down on the convertible for the last thirty miles, but in the end we just left it up and drove with the windows down instead. My interest in history was piqued by a historical marker on TN 25 and we stopped so I could read it. It was a little graveyard and very interesting in design too. We stopped and stretched our legs and I documented a bit.
Before you knew it we were gathered in the living room or dining room snacking and waiting for the other package presenting parties to participate in pleasant plunder. Jenni and I had found some way cool robot toys at the toy store on Mass Ave and got one each for Hank and Logan, the nephews. They were a hit. The whole family had a great christmas and it was too bad that we only had a day to spend. John and Jennifer headed back east to Knoxville after all the presents were doled out and the sun had set, which meant that when the time to bed down Jenni and I would get the guest bedroom at David an Laura's (Sissy to the family) about a quarter of a mile's drive from the homestead. Sunday came too soon and we all gathered once again at the Parental palace for food and farewells. I got to watch the first half of the Titans at the Colts game before it was time to roll north with the warmer weather behind us. The trip north saw us driving and listening to the second half of the Colts game and then the Dolphins /Jets game.

Photos: (Side banner) Panoramic of the cemetery on Tennessee 25:
(Above) Historic marker that caused us to find the cemetery.
(Immediately above) Nephews Logan and Hank unwrapping and playing;
Logan with a robot walker.
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Chuck Pace ©2008 
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