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Long Road Home

On Saturday, Zach woke me up at 5:30 A.M. to get ready to come home.  I was so so tired and did NOT want to get up.  Somehow, though, he managed to get me in the car by 6:00.  We stopped by Durbin's on the way to get peaches for me and were doing so well until about an hour from Nashville.  We hit stand still traffic and it took us over 2 hours to go 3 miles.  We saw a herd of cows on the road at the beginning of the ordeal and when we finally got to where the wreck was, it was a semi with a cattle trailer than had flipped on its side across both sides of the highway.  Craziness!  We eventually got to Nashville where the road we needed was closed, and we had to shut Garmina up since she had no good advice, and navigated to the exit.  We didn't realize that Nashville was having a tax-free weekend like they had been having in Floride, so we didn't know why it took us 20 minutes to just get off the exit of Opry Mills!  You can imagine after all the driving and traffic we'd been through, we were a little fed up.  We went to Bass Pro Shop, where sadly, they were sold out of what Zach needed (boo!), ate in the food court, and then went to the Vera Bradley outlet.  I had wanted to get Zach's mom a bag to thank her for keeping Nellie this week and of course, just wanted to browse.  Zach and I really hate crowds though, so we did our best to get in and get out.  I didn't get to look around for myself, but I'm hoping to go back when it's NOT the craziest weekend to go shopping in Tennessee!  After Nashville, the rest of the trip was smooth sailing and I could not wait to see our Nellie Girl!! When we got to Zach's parents' house, they let Nellie out of her kennel, and she came flying into my lap and just was beside herself.  I have to say I was quite elated myself!  We missed her so much!  And... Zach's mom loved her bag!  We were happy about that too!  Thank you, Nana, for keeping our girl!!  She loved being home, but I am sure she missed being spoiled at Nana's house too!
                                                      The bag we picked for Zach's mom!
                                                           Finally back with my baby girl!
*We also took family pictures in Florida, but I forgot to post those! It's my bedtime for me though, so I'll get to that tomorrow!

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