a Tennessee tour to cure the travel bug (12/2020)

Throughout 2020, we watched and waited for the opportunity to take the kids oversees to Albania and Greece for a visit of Omi and Grandpa's mission. However, as COVID continued and the holidays loomed, it became painfully obvious that this was another cancelled trip. (We'd also cancelled Bear Lake, a Chicago girls trip, and a flight to Salt Lake.) Tired of quarantining and fresh off of our own COVID cases, we orchestrated plan B - a Tour of Tennessee with Jordyn. We met up in Memphis, traveled on to Nashville and stopped in St Louis on the way home. The kids loved Graceland, paid homage to MLK, ate BBQ, swam every night, discovered diagonal crosswalks, visited Andrew Jackson's Hermitage, saw 'Mask Up' in Mighty Lights, listened at the Honky Tonks, snacked on bonuts, walked the country music hall of fame, made custom Goo-Goo Clusters, checked out Reese Witherspoon's closet, rode the arch tram, and played at the City Museum. (And don't forget brushing against the crime scene tape downtown.) It was a fabulous, unexpected end to 2020.