Trip to Knoxville 11-12-04

Mary and I went to Knoxville this weekend to see Nick. We left Saturday morning about 8:15 after talking to Laura, who is in Macedonia. The ride down to Tennessee was beautiful, or so Mary said, I of course slept most of the way. I did drive the last 60 minutes and it was nice to see trees that still had colored leaves. It had also rained a lot recently in this part of the country so the rivers and streams were running and the face of the hills cut through by the roads had little streams and water falls shining in the bright sun light.
We got there in about 4 hours and after picking up Nick and Ivan went for a walk in this nice park along the Tennessee river that Nick found. It is in a section of Knoxville that looks a lot like the west side of Oakwood. The people don't seem to mind if you let your dogs run in this park so Ivan had a ball. He also jumped into the river several times and rolled around in a dead fish. Phew!
Nick had to give him a bath after the walk.
We picked up Cate and went out to eat at Calhouns and took in a movie, The Incredibles. I thought it was really good and some of the dialogue was very funny. We didn't get back to our hotel until midnight.
We got up Sunday to have breakfast with Nick before he was off to work and we drove back home.