Thursday, October 27, 2011

GOOD SURPRISES


Well, isn't this the life! Life on the <DELTA QUEEN> a riverboat in Chattanooga, ironically from Sacramento!A wrap-around deck with sunning chairs, a restaurant, and views of the bridges. Jimmy Carter even stayed here shortly after it became a hotel. The cabin wasn't a tight a space as they suggested -- at least not horizontally. But I bashed my head ducking through the doorway a few times -- they ought to warn of a cabin ceiling height deficiency! Not a worry yet for Lana.

One of the sweetest things Lana said last trip was that I make the <BEST COOKIES IN THE WORLD>. So, I was obliges to up the ante and try a new recipe. Double-chocolate, double spice. (That's cocoa powder and chips, with twice the cinnamon.) It was a hit!

Funny weather shift from 76-degrees and balmy in Florida at 4:30 am to 48-degrees and windy the evening I arrived. Brr! Two days like that and then it warmed up the last day. But on Friday night we went to another surprise -- the amusement park ha a late night Halloween event, with the rides open, so we had to go. A Fright house was a bit much, but the rest was fun, if cold. She's a demon in the bumper cars -- side photo -- which we rode seven or eight times. The Frerris wheel was cool at night, and for this particular night, they adorned it with <crashed> carriages and straw-stuffed bodies at the base!

To much to fit in here -- suffice it to say <AWESOME TRIP>!!