Day 1 Knoxville, TN

Our trip began this morning at 8:30am when I left Anderson to head to Knoxville, TN. Dad helped me pack and organize the car yesterday - I think there's just enough room for Brant's ONE bag when I pick him up on Saturday! We definitely have a lot more stuff than I thought! It took about 3 1/2 hours to get to here. I spent a lot of time yesterday downloading music on my Ipod, so I had plenty of good tunes to pass the time! I am staying with my two good friends, Jennifer and Valerie - the two girls I lived with when I did my pediatrics rotation at East Tennessee Children's Hospital last winter. Jennifer and I went to Clemson together, and Valerie is her roommate that I met when I came to live with them. Jennifer was home when I got here, and we went out for lunch to Calhoun's for some Tennesse BBQ! She caught me up on all of her wedding plans, and then she took me by the dress shop and tried on her wedding dress for me - which is gorgeous! (No pictures - sorry!) She's getting married on December 6th and we won't be able to be there :( We hung out at her apartment for a little bit and watched Oprah until she had to head off to work- she's a physician's assistant in the ER at Children's Hospital. Valerie got home from work, and we headed to downtown Knoxville. We had sushi and wine at Noma's down at Market Square, walked through a few of the shops, and got ice cream at Marble Slab. She gave me a very lovely tour of the University of Tennessee campus where she went to college. We came back to the apartment and hung out for a little bit before hitting the sack. I'm leaving tomorrow morning to drive to Fort Campbell, Tennessee to stay with our friends Erika and Jake! Two more days until Brant gets to join me!!