On the Road Again...

I can definitely wait to be on the road again. I feel that when I was in Kansas all I ever did was drive. I drove home, I drove to games, I road buses, I drove home again, week in and week out. Now, since I have moved I try to drive as little as possible.

Keith was in a wedding in Frankfort, Kentucky. He doesn't do a good job of really planning things and so he decided we would leave Thursday after work to head North. What neither one of us realized however, was that this was an eleven hour trip.  He promised we would stop and stay somewhere when we got tired, so I loaded up the car and we began. We both decided it would be easier to just rent a car from Enterprise. We thought for this long trip, it would be nice to not worry about taking our own.  We get to Enterprise and it was like the busiest place in Monroe. The lobby was packed with people returning and picking up cars.  It came to our turn and they didn't have the car that we had ordered. They apologize and said we will give you whatever we have left and handed us the keys to this..

A brand new Mercedes Benz. We both laughed, got in the car, and have never driven so cautiously as we did this last weekend.  He started driving and we switched back and forth. When we pulled into Nashville at 2:00 am, I thought I had him convinced to stop. He got in the driver's seat and said he was awake and we were going the whole way. Of course, I couldn't sleep and we arrived in Frankfort at 5:00 am, going on no sleep.  We got to sleep for about 2 hours before we met up with everyone to head to Keeneland Horse Races. It was awesome. It was a little nicer than any of the other race tracks I had been to. We took it all in and enjoyed company and the box seats we got.

After the races we met up with the entire wedding party as well as family and friends.  We all had supper together and the boys headed out on a party bus for the Bachelor party. The girls all stayed together and enjoyed downtown Lexington.  I met a lot of new people who all welcomed me right away. Saturday was low key for the most part. We enjoyed sleeping in and just hanging out. Rehearsal was at 2:00 and I got in a nice nap. I met up with everyone at a vineyard for the rehearsal dinner. It was such a cute little mom and pop place. We had great BBQ and wine.

Sunday was wedding day! Keith was a groomsmen for his college roommate Ben and he loved getting to see him again. They all loaded up around noon to head to Midway, KY where the wedding was located, they had lots of pictures ahead of them and had to start thinking of a back up plan due to rain and an outside wedding not mixing well. The wedding began at 4:30 and the rain had stopped, everyone was so thankful they could start with no rain..

Once all of the wedding party were in place, the rain hit..

As the bride began to walk down the aisle, and the rain got harder, there was a QUICK move!!

Allison did a great job and would not stop smiling! She looked beautiful and her and Ben pulled off a great wedding! We enjoyed supper and headed back to Monroe. Of course, Keith decided it would be good to leave around 6:30 and head back to be at work at 8:00 for work the next morning. Funny that this is where the idea went..

Yup! Him sleeping and me taking the wheel. On the way back there was no staying awake for either of us, if we weren't driving we were sleeping. We made it back to Monroe at 5:00am. Even though it was a quick weekend with long drives, we had a great time. We enjoyed getting out for the weekend had a great time celebrating the wedding with Ben and Allison!