Tennessee Trip Day 1

So we just got home from a family vacation to Tennessee. The last time we were there was 4 years ago. It was neat to return with the kids being much older now. Colby has been 4 times and now Lindsay 2. Anyway we left last Monday. We left actually in the midst of a tropical storm. That Sunday a tropical storm made landfall in Louisiana. We stayed in all that day and worked on getting packed. The weather was never really all that bad, but then on Monday when we got ready to leave came a HUGE downpour. We didn't leave until around lunch which was nice to have the morning to get ourselves together. With flying we usually leave at the crack of dawn so it was nice to not be up early. We picked up Subway for lunch and ate a quick bite before hitting the road. We had to stop by my parent's house to bring the kid's special stuffed friends to leave at their house. We then drove to Hattiesburg to drop off Ruby with Austin's mom. It was nice to stop and stretch a bit. We visited for about 30 minutes and got Ruby settled then we were well on our way again. We drove to Meridian, MS. This is where we would be spending our first night. We had some good friends recently move there. Andrea and Beau Bredow we have known since before we were married. They have 2 boys around Colby and Lindsay's age as well. They have lived in Florida though since Colby and Blake were both 1. We had connected with them a couple times in Disney World and probably seen them a few times when they passed through NOLA. Anyway we stopped and checked into our hotel first. It was a super nice Fairfield Inn. We cleaned up and went to Mugshots to meet them for dinner. We probably stayed and visited about 2 hours. It was so great catching up! After dinner we tried to stop to walk off dinner, but everything closes early there. So we just went back to the hotel and watched some tv then turned in early.