Frankly a good time!

Today me, Jess, and Mom and Dad Hill made a trip down to Franklin, TN to do a little Geocaching. If you are from Annapolis, you'd probably feel at home in this city. Its about the same size, and has all the old architecture preserved.

When we got there, we stumbled upon a huge fair going on on main street called "A Dickens of a Christmas". There was all sorts of things going on there from Children's Recorder Orchestra, to Horses and Santa Clauses... everything was a buzz! We meandered down main street soaking it all up on our way to the first cache.

There was an 80s theme dress code. And by 80s I mean 1880. There were so many people dressed as such that when I walked by I felt judged. I bet they were thinking "what is THAT guy wearing..." Outdated costumes as they were, it was a neat experience.

Here is Saint Paul's Episcopal Church. Founded in 1827, its one of the oldest churches around. We went inside and listened to the organist practice for a few minutes (note: going to church while geocaching does not make you a better Christian. Just a holier geocacher.)

We found this cache called "Hard Rock". As you can see, it was located in a hard rock bench. A lot of the time the names of the Geocaches don't make sense till you find the geocache. This one was a thin metal container squeezed between a crack underneath the bench. Jess and I found this one at the same time, so I got lucky.

Here is the Hill family trio, minus Zac.

We trekked back through Franklin to find the next cache. This one was located behind an the old Williamson County jail house (you can see behind us) which is now a restaurant. They actually hanged people in there, which one thing lead to another, and now its a restaurant. As usual, I was about to give up, but Jessica goes right over to the cache. Amazing.

Then after our walk-about in Franklin, we decided to go to see the smash-hit movie The Blindside. We all really liked it, although one of the members of our party had to watch it through watery eyes most of the time ; ). We highly recommend this amazing movie. It is really encouraging to be reminded that people still help people. Also that people still tackle people (in football).