Comments on: Photo Tuesday–Runaway Mom Trip to Chattanooga!

By: Wade

Wade — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:15:22 +0000

OK Tori …if you say so. Thank God women see things as hot that most ppl would not… maybe that is why I do so well with the fairer sex… but never saw HOBBITS as Hot!! But again I will take your word for it!!

By: meb

meb — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:39:18 +0000

Okay, so I live about an hour from Chattanooga and am going to have go check some of these places out.

Can you recommend any good places to run away to in the Nashville area? I’m trying to plan a girls weekend up there and can always use good recommendations. mesbecker@gmail.com

By: tori

tori — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:15:04 +0000

Wade– hello? Hobbits are totally hot!

By: Wade

Wade — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:45:53 +0000

Hobbit??? After I took up for you against the haters on that OTHER Blog. Wanted to make sure we got ya Stone Fort Inn in The Rider and trying to bring a male perspective. This is what I get??? HOBBIT??!!! I swear, I see how ya are!!! LoL;-))OK maybe the mythical part!! lol But I assure you there is nothing diminutive or unadventurous about me!!!

Welcome to Estrogenville!!! lol I have said it before and will say it again. I Love the FEMALE being!!! I do not have to understand something to ENJOY IT!!!

By: tori

tori — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:07:36 +0000

Wade, I had no idea you lived in Chattanooga! (Actually, I kind of thought you were a mythical hobbit…) The crabcake restaurant was 212 Market St. Also had a great diner at Table 2 and Tony’s. It’s all about the food, baby.

Momma Lloyd, last time I ran away to Chattanooga I stayed in an inn on top of Lookout Mt. and you’re right, it can get a little hairy going up and down the winding road!

By: Barbara M. Lloyd

Barbara M. Lloyd — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:36:57 +0000

I was going to be so brief that I wasn’t even going to leave a comment….until someone mentioned you had crab cakes and avacado. I absolutely love both! When I was in Chattanooga, we went up on Look-Out Mountain and to an Acquarium and I had shrimp and grits for the first time, someplace there. I remember there was a little snow on the ground and I was told that when it got really bad, those people who live up on Look-Out Mountain have to stay up there for the duration. Of course, they have everything they need up there. I didn’t like going up that narrow road even in nice weather; and I liked coming down even less. I suspect those people eat courage for breakfast.

By: Wade

Wade — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:04:41 +0000

Oh… & The Wine… and you can have more than one glass!!! LoL;-))

By: Wade

Wade — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:52:21 +0000

Glad ya had fun in MY Fair City!! It’s a great place to VISIT!! Let’s get a concert and I can have Stonefort Inn placed in The RIDER along with The Chicken, M&M’s and Short Stack of Crab Cakes!!! LoL;-)))

By: belinda

belinda — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:02:12 +0000

Looks like you had a great time! I wanna run away somewhere SOON!

The lunch sound great but I’m afraid I would have to leave the avocado out.

By: CarolynR

CarolynR — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:02:14 +0000

Brief?

By: tori

tori — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:34:42 +0000

FORGET THE BRIEF!
(That’s not ‘forget the briefs’, so don’t get any ideas, Linda!)
My lunch was what the menu creatively referred to as a “short stack of crabcakes layered with fresh avocado and served with mixed field greens and lemon beurre blanc.”
Am fancy.

By: themema

themema — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:27:23 +0000

Oh, dear. I can rarely be brief!

How’s that.

By: LindaB

LindaB — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:11:46 +0000

Beautiful B & B! Delicious looking dinner—-what was it?

And you like “big ol’ tubs on legs”, huh? You’re gonna LOVE me too, then! LOL

(I’m trying to be “brief” because I read somewhere recently that replies on someone’s blog should be “brief”. I have trouble with “brief”, but I’m trying.)

By: BrownEyedGirl

BrownEyedGirl — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:29:39 +0000

Sounds like the perfect runaway! I love the B&B – it looks like my kind of place…. Great pictures!

By: gracelynn

gracelynn — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:34:39 +0000

Sounds like a wonderful time away Tori. Wish I could do it myself right now. I’m stressed to the max with this job. I’m counting down the days and fast to GaitherFest. LOL Believe me, I’ll need that weekend big time. one of these weekends I’m going to take off and go to the mountains of NC again by myself for a getaway. That’s my hiding spot.

I love the horse sculpture. I have no artistic talent whatsoever. Like I tell my students – I can barely draw a stick figure LOL. But that is very neat the way they did that creation.

By: tori

tori — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:25:11 +0000

All right, here’s the full disclosure re: wine– No refill. Same glass.

I do love me some wine, but I’m not a big drinker. One glass pretty much does it for me; OK, maybe two over the course of a long meal! And I usually only have that if I’m out with friends somewhere– since I am the only one in the house that drinks anything at all, a bottle of wine would go bad before it got finished so it’s more of a ‘night out’ kind of thing for me. Am old.

Now, having a glass in the middle of the day? WOO HOO, that’s like Mardi Gras for me! If I had refilled it a couple of times I would have nodded off in the museum…

By: kwr221

kwr221 — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:07:43 +0000

Okay, I’m with CarolynR, I have to know about the wine. Because while I’m impressed with the inhaling, no WAY would my wine remain at eh same level.

By: CarolynR

CarolynR — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:59:55 +0000

How will we ever be able to respect you again after that admission – “I inhaled”? lol

Ok at the risk of being sussed as an obsessive. Those last two pics. Was that the same wine in the second pic, or had you replenished once or twice? Curious to know. Love the artistically arranged book!

Sounds absolutely bliss Tori, my idea of heaven on earth to spend a couple of days doing that. Of course for me Chattanooga is always followed by choo choo and an American jive. Very Andrews Sisters!

I’m glad you are restored and ready for the fray once more. Must say though I hope someone gives that poor skinny horse some oats soon!