So first off you all know that I got back from deployment got a little bit of time off and then we bolted for Aruba. Which was a blast and I have already blogged about. From there it was back to San Diego for a few weeks of work before going on leave again and heading back to Alabama to visit with some family.
So we went to Alabama for some family time which was awesome. I picked up my son Elec shortly after leaving the airport, and we headed to my mom's house. My mom has been feeling not so good lately so I spent some time with her and got her back to going to the doctors and getting all fixed up. Other than that it was just me Holly, and Elec and we was hanging out with my brothers. Finally on Friday me and Holly dropped off my son, and we headed up to Bonnaroo for the weekend.
Bonnaroo was a lot of fun, other than the heat that is. It was hotter than to dogs fucking in a wool sock! First night Metallica was definitely the highlight for me but there was many other fun bands to watch on Friday night. All in all we where partying until around 3 am on Fri. Saturday we got up bright an early to the degree of around 95! It was blisteringly hot at 7 am so much so that you could not sleep in. So we got up had some breakfast and headed back into the grounds to do some shopping and see some of the morning crazies. We ate and partied all day long, enjoying such bands as Jack Johnson, Pearl Jam, Phil Lesh and Friends, Chromeo, Little Feat, and many many more. Bonnaroo was a good time over all but next time if we go again we are definitely going to rent an RV so we can get some more rest.
Sunday morning we work up to the blistering fucking heat again ate some grub and packed up our camp. We hung out with our neighbors and enjoyed bullshitting with them for awhile before we headed out. Just after we got outside the camp ground on the way back to the interstate we saw the Jack Daniels distillery sign and if you know me then you know we had to go! We got there in plenty of time to see the place and do a tour (we choose not to do the tour because I wanted to get back to my son). So we headed back to Bama to spend some more time with the family.
When we got back that Sunday afternoon, I got my son and we settled in for the evening just chillaxing and watching some TV. We all got up around 8 on Monday morning had some breakfast and headed off to New Orleans. That is still a long ass drive, especially when your traveling with an eight year old. But we made it to New Orleans in pretty good time. We enjoyed a good dinner on Bourbon St. watch some of the freaky deakys running around and headed off to Florida.
We spent the next two days trolling around in Destin and Fort Walton beach Florida. We played in the water (which is just amazingly warm and clear), ate some good grub and just have a pretty relaxed time until it was time to head back to Bama.
Friday morning was the big day (an pretty shitty for me in some ways, I had to take my son back to his mom which I never like doing) we all got ready for a day of rafting and bbq'ing. We headed up to the Oocee River in Tennessee, where a buddy of mine was supposed to take us down the river.
He was having some issues so we ended up going with someone he recommended to us and I am pretty sure everyone had a blast. We have a little tradition of following up rafting with some 40's on the dirt roads in back woods Tenn before returning to Bama so we of coarse had to do that! Then headed back to Bama for a bad ass BBQ with the family! Over all the trip was very fun as it is always good to see the family and spend time with them fools, but I always look forward to coming home. Of which one day I will actually bring my son out here and let him enjoy some more time in California!
