Well, Katie and I took a drive to Hartwell Georgia on Friday afternoon after I got off work for our annual Christmas with my mother and her side of the family. It included 4 of my 5 sisters and all the families with the exception of one child. It was a very long drive and not knowing where we were going made it even a longer drive. After we got through downtown Atlanta, I thought we would be there before long, well, an hour and a half later, we got to the house. Everyone was waiting on us to get there and of course, we stayed up for several hours talking. My two step sisters and their families went to a hotel about 10 mins down the road and Teri and I stayed at the house. Teri and Tony didn't get there until about 2:30am Saturday morning, they got lost not far from the house and we had to wake Tami up to give her directions to get to the house. This house is on Lake Hartwell and is in the middle of "NO Where" which made it that much more difficult to find in the dark of night. Anyway, we had a great day on Saturday and had dinner on Saturday night. Afterwards, Doug and Andrew decided that we need to have a pool tournament so we all went to the basement and had the tournament. There were several games played but it was not finished because everyone started getting tired so we went back up stairs. Then we sang Christmas Carols, I played the keyboard, Doug Jr. played the guitar, Andrew played the keyboard....it was alot of fun. We finally started to wind down and soon went to bed. The kids wanted to watch a movie where I was going to sleep and thank goodness, Doug couldn't get the DVD player to work so I was able to go to sleep...and they were all tired to so it didn't take long for them to crash either. Katie told me that she was going to set her alarm clock and get up at 7 am so that we could get ready to drive home. Man, she did and she got me up at 8 and we left about 9:30, 8:30 our time. I drove to this side of Atlanta and told Katie that she could have at it when we stoped again. That's about all I remember until I woke up about 2 hours later. Thank goodness she was driving, I was so tired and sleeply....She drove on home...and get this, she loves to drive in the left lane and that just gets on my last nerve...but anyway, she put the pedal to the floor and got us on home. After I got home and gave my wife a big ol' kiss and hug, I had to immediately go outside and build me a fire and work on the swimming pool. It was full of leaves again and the temp was going to be well below freezing so I had to make sure that I could leave the pool on all night and not have any trouble. So I spent several hours cleaning the darn pool after getting home from the 6 hour drive. Needless to say, I slept really good last night and had a hard time getting up this am to go to work. We had a great time and it was good to be able to be with both of my sisters since we don't live close. My mother really had a great time with everyone there and getting to be with all the kids and grandkids. Merry Christmas.....
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