Thoughtful Thursday

Today’s thoughts are a continuation of the last post about C & my weekend trip to Nashville.  Let’s see…we covered our reason for going (to see the awesome Broadway show, Wicked) and we covered the local restaurant we tried and LOVED, 417 Union.  Today, I wanted to show you some of the local “flavor” of [...]

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Thoughtful Thursday

I hope you have enjoyed the last few week’s worth of Thoughtful Thursday posts which detailed C & my 10th anniversary vacation to Virginia Beach.  This post highlights the neat little restaurants we visited while on the road.  I had done quite a bit of research on local Virginia Beach restaurants because I wanted us [...]

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Thoughtful Thursday

Our virtual vacation is starting to wind down…”today” is the day we leave the beach and start toward home.  Sigh!  I knew I would like the ocean, but it was even better and more awe-inspiring that I could have imagined.  I would love to go back sometime! We spend a couple of hours on the [...]

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Thoughtful Thursday

Welcome back to your virtual tour of C & I’s 10th anniversary vacation.  We are up to day 4 of our trip and it was the busiest day yet.  That was Wednesday of the week we were gone and we decided to make that day sight-seeing day.  Once we started out that morning, there were [...]

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Thoughtful Thursday

C & I are big movie fans.  C loves action movies, comedies, and sci-fi.  I like those, too, but I also love a good romance or period drama.  If it is about England many years ago, I will watch it every time!  In fact, while we were dating, movie night was our go-to date plan.  [...]

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Mastering the Art…

When C & I recently spent the weekend in Lexington, we shopped at the Joseph-Beth Bookstore which is one of my favorite places to browse.  If you are a book-lover like me and you happen to find yourself in Lexington, please take the time to visit this wonderful place!  I could spend hours just browsing [...]

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The rest of the story…

In this past Almost-wordless Wednesday post, I mentioned that there might be a story behind the beautiful fireworks display and there is.  We decided to take a short getaway to celebrate our 9th wedding anniversary by traveling to Lexington, KY.  It was just what we needed…a weekend of eating out, movies, shopping, swimming, sleeping in, [...]

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An Amazing “Amazing Grace”

One of my favorite groups is Celtic Woman.  I love their voices, their music and the songs they perform.  C & I watched their latest concert on public television on Tuesday night and they performed a outstanding version of “Amazing Grace”.  This concert was performed at an extremely old manor house in Wicklow County, Ireland, [...]

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