What a trip we had. Besides highlights such as seeing MAKENNA!!!!
We visited Dollywood, the Dixie Stampede, the Jack Daniels Distillery, Freddie's Oyster Bar, Wild Horse Saloon, the Beer Sellar, Nashville Nights and the Mall of America.
I won two rounds in a row of Scrabble and had a wonderful time visiting all of the family. Thank you to Hal and John and families for all the planning and acitivities you arranged.
I am so thankful for North Dakota, the people, the lack of traffic, even the cold...although that is still a bit of an adjustment.
Here is a photojournal of our trip.
While in Sheridan at Veronica's Kent discovers an untapped selection of music to download to his computer. He spent hours doing this and it probably was the highlight of the vacation for him. 
Due to our lack of time Kent had to get a haircut at a salon - this is the first haircut he's had that he hasn't done himself since 2000! 
Kent and I visited the Norway store in Norway, IL. Norway is the oldest permanent Norwegian settlement in America. Here we see Kent sporting the latest trend in eyeware from the motherland.
At the Jack Daniels Distillery with Breanna and Tony. We had an eventful afternoon delving into the distillery, finding Freddie's Oyster Bar, Chatting our way to Chattanooga, backtracking backroads to Pigeon Forge and look, "There's a Blockbuster!"
This is Makenna. I stole her every chance I got and took pictures with her. Such a good little girl. She smiles and growls and claps her hands. She may just have been the highlight of the reunion.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING! This was taken to send to family by text message during our hike of the great smoky moutains outside our back door just before Thanksgiving day dinner. I wasn't able to send it but I love the picture.Thanksgiving night after winning two rounds of Scrabble, the single cousins and I sat up late talking. While watching Tyra and discussing all the crazy show topics Courtney shared with us the definition of an orgy...7 or more people in bed without shoes....so....since we were in the south and at a family reunion we thought it was only appropriate to have our own Lutz Family Orgy and here's the proof!
This is the official Moore family Thanksgiving weekend photo. There is another Lutz family one but Andy still has it on his camera.
My tall drink of water is so good looking that everywhere we went he was singled out for fun and mayhem. Here the Dollywood Chicken Lady is serenading him. I laughed so hard I cried and almost peed my pants. As you can tell Kent is having a great time too!
And speaking of chickens. This one is just too cute!We don't have pictures of the Dixie Stampede, but it was a magical show. Andy, Megan, Kent and I even got to be a part of the the South vs North challenge in the stick horse race. While we didn't win we gave it our all and the South (our side) prevailed in the end.
We met with my dad's sister and brother and families at the Apple Barn for lunch before we headed back to Nashville. It was nice for Kent to get a chance to meet so many of my family and we have an open invitation to Mississippi as soon as we get a chance.
We arrived in Nashville in time to hit some of the downtown honkytonks. We started at the Wildhorse Saloon. Floord was having a CD release party and we sat through part of their show. We went past Coyote Ugly but ended up on a side street at the Beer Sellar a small pub with 99 beers for sale. We tried the local Yazoo ale and Dos Perros both Nashville-made beers. We found Nashville Nights a small club right up our alley. They played great music and were very entertaining...so much so we stayed for the rest of the night - it is probably one place we would definitely like to go and see again.
We made it back to the airport about 30 mintues before they opened for check-in, got settled and made the first flight of the day at 6:10.
Notice I don't anywhere say we slept. After getting up Saturday morning we were up for the remainder of the trip until today...Monday, December 1st. Oh we napped here and there but nothing beats a good bed and kittens to snuggle with.
We didn't have luggage in Minneapolis which may have been a blessing in disguise. We went to Mall of America - Kent now says, "I've seen it." We got our luggage and enjoyed a transit ride with Bears and Vikings fans who were heading to the game. We got off at the Metrodome and thought about finding scalped tickets for the game. Instead we took the bus to the train depot and called it a day. We boarded the train at 10:30 uneventfully and made it back to Rugby by 7:30 this morning.
Our luggage should be here in the next couple of days, which is good we may be recouperated by then and ready to go through all of our goodies from the trip.At the end of the trip we may have felt like this but all in all we still love each other and can't wait for our next adventure.
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