Life with the Moffitts: Thanksgiving, part 2

Matt and I returned tonight from a whirlwind trip. As I mentioned before, our second part of Thanksgiving was spent in Tennessee. We woke up bright and early yesterday (Saturday) morning and headed to Clarkesville, TN. We continued to listen to Twilight on CD which was great. The drive was about 4.5 hours.. Clarkesville is four miles from the Kentucky border. Matt's parents were there as well as his grandmother, Mimi, and his uncle Eddie. The house is Mimi's sister's & her husband (Chris & Woodson). It is actually a farm that has been in their family and Chris & Woodson are now living there and leasing out the farmland.

Matt and I walked around the area to see the things he has been telling me about. We went to the tree on the property where the family carves their initials. Last Christmas Matt carved his initials with a spot waiting for mine, so we completed that :) We also went to see where Mimi's brother Woody's store used to be and also walked along the railroad tracks for a while.

That afternoon, we went to a local winery with Matt's parents and his uncle Eddie. The winery was very fun and we tried about 10 wines and left with a dozen bottles that Matt's dad bought.

As to be expected, we ate a ton of delicious food. Lunch was barbecue and dinner was amazing chicken stuffing, green beans, corn, rolls, cranberry sauce & sweet potatoes. Oh and I forgot to mention that football was on the TV all afternoon which I got incredibly tired of, but I did get to see Georgia Tech beat Georgia for the first time since 2000! That was awesome. Dinner was so much fun with the 8 of us sitting around the dinner table. Woodson and everyone else were hilarious and I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. My stomach hurt and I was definitely crying from laughing so hard. After all of the good food, Matt and I ended up passing out earlier than the 'old folks' and went to bed in our separate twin beds (haha) upstairs around 8:30 (central time.. at least it was 9:30est!).

We woke up around 8 today (nice, long sleep) and ate another huge meal for breakfast. After another walk around the property, we left for Atlanta once again, having only been in Clarkesville for about 24 hours. The drive back was about 5 hours due to the traffic, but we enjoyed listening to Twilight in the car. We had to return the book before we had finished it so we actually read it out loud to each other this evening which was fun :)

Thus ends our first married Thanksgiving!