Trip to Bowling Green

Kathy and I left last Wednesday evening headed for Bowling Green, Ky to visit Hope and her Family. We did not get very far before our stomach's begin to whine that they were hungry, so we stopped in Newberry and ate at the Cabanna Cafe. If you are a fan of Shrimp and Grits that is a must make trip so you can stuff yourself with the best shrimp and grits in the state of SC. We spent the night with Louise Garren (Kathy's mom) in Hendersonville, NC that night. The next morning we ate at the Cracker Barrell in Hendersonville with Kathy's mother, brother (Robert) and sister (Carole). It was nice getting to spend some time with them!

After breakfast we were on the road again getting as far as Tanger Mall in Sevierville, Tn before having to stop again. Wow we saved so much money at that place it almost broke us. We finally got to Bowling Green about 5:00pm (central time) just in time to watch our grandson (Jacob) play in a soccer game which they won 3 to 2. While we were visiting I came up with a new name for our 3-year old grandson Mason --- He reminds me of Calvin in the Calvin & Hobbs comic strip. He is cute as a button and he is going 90 mph all the time.

If you are not famailar with Bowling Green that is where Western Kentucky University is located and there was a tremendous amount of excitement in the air due to their basketball team playing UCLA in the NCAA tournament that night at 9:00pm (That would be 10:00 EST). That is already one hour past our usual bedtime, but we did manage to stay up and watch the game until sometime in the second half -- if I had of known that Bowling Green was going to make a come back I would have watched to rest of it (I would have loved to see them beat UCLA). I now understand that USC is talking to Western's coach about coming to SC --- that would probably be a good move on USCs part if they can get him.

We left Ky Sunday morning and stopped to visit Bernis & Louise (brother-in-law and sister) in Jacksboro, Tn. We also got to see our niece Kathy, her husband Richard and our great niece Crystal. Crystal is a beautiful young woman! Bad knees must run in the Wells' family as Louise was having total knee replacement this morning.

We had a wonderful trip! Now we have got to start getting ready to go to Charleston this Thursday for our annual "Cooper River Bridge Run" trip. We can't wait.

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The will of God never takes you to where the Grace of God will not protect you.