We Take Ourselves With Us

So, I'm finally coming back to finish the last two days of this blog while stuck in Chicago because of a winter storm at home--and of course, Chicago had a winter storm, too, and I left my coat in my car in Rochester, and I don't have any boots with me because I was in San Francisco--where I needed neither winter boots nor coat.  Anyway .... Here's a photo of our Murray's Bay neighborhood, where likely no one wears winter anything ever: That morning, we had a single destination: the Sky Tower .  There, our children--and surprisingly their Aunt Diana--would jump off the tower and fall over 720 feet, presumably not to their deaths.  The Sky Tower is also home to a hotel and casino, hence the spangly chandelier. No one cared about that, though.  It was all Sky Jump, all the time!  There's an age and weight requirement for the jump, so the kids were whisked off to be weighed like little pot roasts at market and the Sky Jump workers sharpied their ...

I had mentioned a couple posts ago that I had a cold; well, it just kept getting worse, so on our last full day in Nashville, I suggested we slow our roll.  We agreed to sleep in a bit, head out for lunch, do an escape room, wander around downtown Nashville, and then hit the Opry Mills mall for a couple movies: the Shallows and a TCM theater presentation of Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.  For us, this was taking it easy, and I very much appreciated it. Kress-Davis Avengers Assemble! We chose newer Nashville hot spot Acme Feed and Seed for lunch and were happy to see lots of locals (business folks in suits) follow us in.  Like most of the places we visited, Acme's in a reclaimed building.   Most of the restaurants on this trip were counter order/table service, so this must be a thing now.  We got an assortment: Nashville Hot chicken bites, housemade chips and salsa, Southern-style lo mein, curried chickpeas over jasmine ric...