Road Trip

We left last night for Bloomington once again.  As Meg and Cal had the same fall break as Cameron, we had decided that we would take a road trip to the Biltmore.  Brett wasn’t able to get the time off of work, but he didn’t mind as he was in Asheville in August for a wedding.  As Meg and Cal were busy studying when we arrived, only Brett, Doug, Cam and I were available for dinner.  We let Brett pick and enjoyed a fun dinner at Big Woods Brewery.  As soon as we got back to the apartment, Ticket to Ride was set up.  Brett, Cam and I were ready to dethrone Doug as the past two time champion.  It was tough, but Cam did end up winning by one point.  

               

We all slept in this morning as Brett did not have to work at Bell Trace.  The game board was once again set up and we had time for one more round before heading to the winery for lunch.  It was a little cool at Oliver’s, but they had enclosed their back patio this year which made it the perfect picnic spot.  Cam gave us his predictions for the upcoming Big Ten Football games, while Brett filled us in on the news on from last week’s Democratic Presidential debate.  We dropped him off at work after lunch.  Doug and Cam spent the afternoon golfing at Cascades.  While they were gone, I walked to Target to get a few items for Brett’s apartment and snacks for the trip.  I had just finished setting up the timer for Brett's Halloween lights on the patio when Cam and Doug arrived.  Neither had played in quite some time, but had fun anyway.  

We picked up Meg first and then stopped at Cal’s.  Hannah-Marie was still driving back from her dive at Lake Monroe when we arrived at her apartment, but by 5:45 we were all on the road for North Carolina.  We had talked about stopping for dinner, but with heavy traffic for the first half of our trip, we opted for Wendy’s instead.  We made it to Newport, Tennessee just after midnight.  It was the perfect stopping point as it was just short of the Smoky Mountains and only left us with an hour trip for tomorrow morning.  With two rooms everyone had plenty of sleeping space and we were all soon in bed resting up for our next adventure.