Friday, August 18, 2006

Some Thoughts From Tennessee

We took a trip this week to the Chattanooga, TN area to help our youngest DD get settled in at a new university for graduate school for the next 3 years. We left on Sunday morning ~8:30 AM and traveled ~12 hours and made it >700 miles from Maine to Newmarket, VA - a grueling day. Deb drove almost the whole day with Jean relieving her for a couple hours so she could rest in the middle of the day.

Today (August 14) was a shorter day, as we didn't get in until after dark and then ate and put our feet up before we turned out the light at ~10:30 PM. Jean and I awoke ~5 AM (fluid drained from feet) and both of us finally got back to sleep and awoke just after 8 AM. We all showered and got out the door ~9:30 AM. Jean and I listened to "Sister Chicks in Sombreros" which Cheryl gave us (she had it mailed to her by mistake and the company told her to just keep it - and they doesn't have a CD player currently). Deb again drove all but ~2 - 3 hours today for which Jean relieved her and I drove the whole day. We are all a bit tired from the traveliing.

We arrived here ~6 PM and have already driven by one rental possibility near the college and have written down 5 more from the community "bulletin board" just off campus. We have visited the nursing building (open, no one there) we found Jean's Mom's class photo from 1942 hanging in the stairwell with all the other class photos up to the present as well as poking our heads into as many of the classrooms and labs in the biology/chemistry/math building where she will be having a couple classes this coming semester.

On Sunday night we were at our motel (free WiFi) where we had a (very) late supper and caught up on email and online forums.

SUMMARY: We arrived safely and though tired, are safe and we arrived in good time so that we are well oriented and set up for the events coming up tomorrow. We are very grateful for all of your prayers for our safe travel as well as for God to lead us to the housing He has selected for Deb.

2 Comments:

At 9:52 AM, Blogger Sunny said...

Didn't mom go to Florida Hospital for nursing school? What is Southern doing with her photo?

 
At 4:38 PM, Blogger LarryandJean said...

You are right - the picture collage indicates "Florida Hospital School of Nursing, Class of 1943" or some such caption. Jean will have to explain to you how Southern is the latter day heir to Florida Hospital's academic nursing program.

 

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