Traveling Light: Need a Weekend after my Weekend

HAPPY MONDAY TRAVELING LIGHT FOLLOWERS

Poll: This one is for the girls
What is your Favorite Steel Magnolias Quote?
You can respond in the Comment Section.

My Picks
Annelle: "Miss Truvy, I promise that my personal tragedy will not interfere with my ability to do good hair."
OR
Truvy: "There is no such thing as natural beauty."

Here is to a Great Weekend..

Friday May 7th
Glass Half Full
WIth the Nashville Flood happening so close to home and being completely unaffected I felt I needed to give some of my time back to those who have lost so much. This experience actually gave me something.

At 3:00 Pm on Friday Nathan (The Graphic Designer I work with) and I took off to meet at our Volunteer Location. We were loaded up on a bus and taken to a not so great area of Nashville. When we arrive we were given a brief rundown of how to handle the emotions of those who have lost so much. We then were packed in groups of 8 and told to walk down the street and people will come out and ask for your help. It was not but a few seconds before the first victim came out and requested help. He took us to the back of his house and it was all everybody could do to hold back the tears. Everything was destroyed. After a few hours of helping I started talking to the owner to get to know him. He worked at Channel 4 for years so with our Media background we had a lot in common. I asked him to explain the Experience of the flood. This is when it all changed for me. He said, "well it started here (pointing at the floor) and came all the way to here (pointing at the ceiling) however, I am so blessed and thank God that it did not go upstairs. I am really fortunate". Incredible. We can only pray for our hearts to be in the right place that we can always look at our glass half full.

Here are a few Photos from the Day:

The room at first

We were trying to show how dirty we were but my phone camera was not the best tool

Nathan and the Owner

The floor after we got the big stuff out.

On Sunday Savannah and I worked for the Red Cross. It was a lot of sitting around waiting but once we got moving we were packing Red Cross trucks with food for the Sunday night Dinner Shift. The coolest part was seeing the truck that could prepare 50,000 meals a day. It was quite the beast of a vehicle.

Saturday May 8th

What Horses?

Saturday was the 68th annual Iroquois Steeplechase and my 6th year to attend. I have yet to figure out why they call it Steeplechase? It should be called SEC Annual Pre Season Tailgate. Its a way for all the SEC Schools to post there tents, drink a few beers, play some cornhole and sample tailgating food items for the upcoming football season. Im just saying :)

I will say the past two years our spot is near a cut through for the horses so I have in fact seen a horse or two but they are usually lugging some big cop in full gear as opposed to the nutritionally starved mini men AkA Jockeys.

Andrea and her Hubby Drew came into town for the big event and we had quite a good time... Till Next Year!

The Girls