Civil War

Today after work we went to the Civil War. They've had a reenactment the last 2 days in Crystal River. We wanted to go yesterday, but we ended up working too late and it was already over. But today we got done early so we went over there. It was kinda neat and kinda dull. I think its another one of those things that its more fun to contemplate than to actually do, like the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace. Plus today the South won. They surrounded the North from 3 sides and took over their cannons. So its back to slavery for us, I guess...

Yesterday we ended up in the field right next to where they were reenacting and heard the cannons being fired during the morning. I guess they were doing some sort of cannon demonstration while we were in the area. We couldn't really see anything but smoke, but it was weird to be so close and not really know what was going on.

We heard rumors today that the Kansas crew may be sent back after a month. I don't know it that's for sure, but I don't know what we'd do if we were sent back. There isn't much to do in Kansas. We are super-fast diggers though. I think we did about 3 miles today. And we consistently find nothing because we're digging where they have already run a gas line and built a bunch of power lines. Ah well, it saves us digging even more holes if we don't find anything in the ones we do dig :D

The Rest of the Way

Well, Sunday I headed out of the Nashville area but didn't make it far before seeing a sign for the Jack Daniel's distillary. So of course I decided to go. I didn't realize how far off the road it was though. A quick detour turned into about 3 hours. It was fun though. It would have been better if I hadn't seen a show about how to distill whiskey on tv already, but it was cool to see it in person. We didn't get any samples at the end though :( It was Sunday and its a dry county. I guess they usually let them sell bottles on site, but on Sundays even they can't sell it.

So I got back on the road and drove to just past Atlanta before stopping for the night. The next day I headed down to Falorida. I thought I was pretty close, but it turned out that I was about 150 miles from the border. At the welcome center they give out free orange juice, but I didn't stop for any. The drive was pretty uneventful. Besides the crazy noise my car continues to make. I have to take it somewhere and have it looked at.

So I checked into the hotel and then went further down the road to see what was up. Well, nothing was up. It seems pretty boring here. But there is a brochure for diving with manatees in the room, so I'm going to dive while I'm down here. I'm gonna see if anyone else wants to go, but if not I'll go by myself. No reason to waste all that money on the lessons if I don't get when I get the opportunity :)

Then today we went out to work, but where we were suppose to start they didn't want to let us dig to the depth that we need to. So we called it a morning and will try again tomorrow. Then it rained for awhile while we were at the store buying tennis raquets, but it seems to have stopped now. So I'll probably make people play tennis with me for awhile. Woo, tennis!

Superman!

So I'm making my way down to Falorida (Which is how I'm going to say that from now on because my crazy Australian friend has corrupted my speech). I'm heading to the border of Illinois and Kentucky and I see a sign off the interstate for a giant Superman statue. So I think to myself, "That's pretty much the most hilarious thing of heard all week, but I shouldn't waste my time.......No, I should definitely waste my time." So I pulled off to Metropolis to see giant Superman. It was pretty weird. But amazing. So then I got a delicious milkshake from Hardee's and went to get back on the interstate. But the police had the entry ramp roped off. So then I had to take an alternate route. So I took a small road around and had to cross the Ohio river. On the skinniest, longest bridge in the world. It was pretty much the worst experience of my life. Plus I was worried about the wheel of my car falling off the entire time. I don't know what's up with it, but my car is making a funky noise that hurts my head. So I'll have to have it looked at when I finally get to Falorida. I guess that's it. Tomorrow I shall head for Georgia. Hopefully I find another awesome thing to do on the way there :D