Hello everyone!
I don't leave for N.Z. for several weeks still, but I know I will be swamped once I get there, so I figured I'd sort out this blogging nonsense in advance.
I'm in Knoxville, TN, USA right now. It's pretty slow - lots of cleaning, grocery shopping, doing odd jobs for Grandy. I miss Disneyland constantly, though I'm glad of the distance to see some of its faults (crazy managers, anyone?).
This picture took forever and a week to load, so I'll probably put most of my pictures on facebook and text here. But, as you can see in this photo, it snowed for two days here. It was so foggy that day that you couldn't even see the water or the mountains beyond. Oddly enough, the days when it snowed were relatively warm: my first few days here, the high was in the teens or twenties. I've gotten used to wearing wool socks and keeping the heater on full blast (which I'd have to do anyway, since Grandy gets cold all the time now). On the warmer (max, 45 degrees F) days, I've taken Denali for a walk, which she totally loved, but it's been too cold recently, so she's getting cabin fever and barking a lot.
Still a few weeks to NZ. It doesn't seem real. First I'm worrying about going to Atlanta to see the Terra Cotta Soldiers, and then going to Davidson to see Maureen.
