May 20, 2016---off to Lesterville, Mo:

After spending a couple days in St. Louis---having freon put in our house AC unit and just recuperating from the moves; it was time to hit the road again!  But this was the main event that we were coming back to St. Louis for---Brenda and Jerry's wedding.  They've been "dating" for over 20 years and finally decided to tie the knot.  I told them I was taking their wedding pictures and they agreed.  So today we headed a couple hundred miles down to Southern Missouri to get ready for the wedding.
It was a rather pretty ride.

 even had to cross over a shallow "creek" on our way.

 They own a piece of property down there and decided to have the wedding there.  Here are the dining flies.

 Faith and Tim showed up from Knoxville shortly after we did and helped set up for the wedding, too.  Here Faith's getting the photo booth ready.

 Their land even had a nice little clearing where they set up the chairs for the ceremony.

 Tables being set up.

 anyone who arrived a day early was put to work.

 the food fly going up.

 the little cabin they built on property.

 Tim and Faith still working on the photo booth.  It was a big hit.  Seems like everyone was using it.

 decor going up.

 They even rented a cabin for us for tonight and tomorrow night at a resort nearby. 

Time to rest up for the wedding.

May 16, 2016---Happy 60th birthday to me!

And I spent most of the daylight hours on the road from Knoxville to St. Louis.
Clawdine enjoying her new digs while we slipped out.

 Goodbye Tim and Faith's house!

 Their neighborhood

interesting highway vehicles

 love driving through Eastern Tennessee---love the mountains.

 This is also the year of an interesting presidential election.  Wonder if Trump will be our next president?!

 love photographing old barns as we drive down the highway.

 Dreaded Nashville!  Hate driving through Nashville!

 back to farmlands

 there sure are a lot of dilapidated barns in the midwest!

 Finally, a horse in Kentucky!

 as we reached Illinois, the temperatures really started to drop.  I hadn't seen temps this cold all winter in S. Florida!  It was in the 90s when we left a couple days before!  I was not happy to see it's still winter in St. Louis.

 Hadn't seen rain in awhile in Florida, either.  And you can always count of I-57 and I-64 having plenty of road construction going on!

We finally made it to the cold wet St. Louis area that late afternoon.  I guess St. Louis was not happy to see us.

May 15, 2016---lunch in Chattanooga and on to Tim and Faith's:

Now that we're only 4 hours from Knoxville, we decided we should once a month meet up with Tim and Faith  for lunch half way between our places.  Chattanooga pretty well meets that criteria.  So having moved into our new place---we took off again.  Wouldn't be back for 2 weeks!
The Chattanooga Choo Choo!

 The area the kids found for us to meet in was an interesting revived area.

 Faith noticed they had a Tupelo Honey restaurant here (one of their favorites in Knoxville), so we ate there.

 It even became my 60th birthday party (a day early).

 complete with sparkly hats

 and a bright feathery boa

 I got the scrambled eggs with blueberries in it.  Odd sounding combo, but it was really good.

 Ken's sandwich.

We needed to be back in St. Louis later that week, so we continued of from there---spending the night at Tim and Faith's to admire their new house.

 The back of their yard

 beautifully landscaped

 The new Chateau LaBeaume

 Of course we had to go eat again.  This time to a fancy restaurant on a marina near their place.  Dinner was great, as was the company---then we went to a nearby park to wait for sunset.

 not the most spectacular of sunsets, but still pretty.

 The view of the mountains as we turned off the highway towards their subdivision.

They had moved into their new place on May 6th.  It was a busy couple of weeks for all of us!  Angie and Josh moving the rest of their stuff up to Georgia from Florida on the 6th and Tim and Faith moving from their rental home to their own home and Ken and I moved a week later!

May 13, 2016---on to Buford, Ga.!

Hard to believe our year in South Florida is up!  ( our year in Florida )  Probably would still be there if our daughter and son-in-law hadn't moved to Suwanee, Ga. from South Florida.  But this gives us a chance to see what Georgia has to offer!  That's the nice thing about being retired!---not only are we free to travel, but we're free to travel for long periods of time!  Had you told me 5 years ago that I'd spend a year in South Florida, then move to Buford, Ga., I'd have found that hard to believe.  Now I wonder where I will be next year?!

So with the truck packed up, we took off to Georgia.  We actually left at night and drove all night.  Got to watch the sunrise from the car.

It was a beautiful day in Georgia.  We got to our destination (our daughter's place in Suwanee, about 45 minutes north of Atlanta) in the morning.  We know nothing about the area.  But we'll have at least a year to find out!

We were suppose to move into our Buford apartment on the 14th.  But we called to see if it was ready for moving in a day early.   It was, so we did.  This time we're in a 2 bedroom/2 bath apartment with attached garage and on ground level.  In Florida we had a 1 bedroom/1 bath with attached garage and living area on 2nd level (mostly above the garage).  Nice to have the extra space---and nice that this place is cheaper then the one in Florida!
Our new dining room.

our living room - dining room - extra bedroom/bathroom.  Also like that we have French doors out to a patio about 3 x the size of our Florida one.  

our master bedroom (actually the 2nd bedroom, but the other room wouldn't fit a king bed without putting the bed in front of a window).

 the kitchen with full pantry to the left of the fridge. 

 I was afraid the tv on the wall with our bedroom would be loud if Ken was up and I was sleeping, but with the speakers pointing the other direction, it's not bad at all.  Plus he can have it so low and hear it when nobody else can.

 So the true master bedroom is now my office with Ken's bathroom attached.  Figure if anyone comes to visit, we'll get a blow up queen mattress or futon for visitors to stay in here, too.

Spent a couple hours unloading the truck on the 13th after Josh got off work (Ken and I weren't much help unloading!).   We did spend much of the 14th unloading boxes, too.  Hanging pictures will have to wait a month or so.