Saturday Robin, Jim and I met Debbie, Mike and Grady in Clarksville at their house; we were spending the day together before Deb and Grady takes off on their new adventure of moving to Arizona Sunday. We got to Clarksville about 8:30 a.m.; Mike and Jim went off to play golf at a course on the base, and Robin, Deb, Grady and I was off to do something. First we went to the waterfront and played on the playground, then we walked by the river. The water was almost up to the bottom of the rails. At the end of one walk, we saw several sheriff cars and law enforcement boats, but we never did find out what was happening. After the park, we went to the Customs House Museum in downtown Clarksville. Debbie is setting by Grady beside the fountain; we all threw coins into the fountain, and made wishes.
These are sculptures that children had made with cans and such to show that you can make things out of trash (Trash to Treasures). Grady loved getting up on the platform with Thomas the Train; Robin had to catch a couple of the sulptures so they didn't fall off, and she only had to yell help once!
Grady loved playing with the trains; they even had a couple of train stations that you pushed buttons to make them move. The two other rooms that we all loved; one was the bubble room where you could make bubbles and you could even stand in a bubble, and the other room was where you rolled golf balls down all kinds of obstacles. So Amazing!
This is the original spire from the top of the Customs House Museum. It was wrenched from the building during the January 22, 1999 tornado and recovered several blocks away. I had forgotten about that tornado; it happened while working at Nation's Bank Business Center, and it was around the same time that I was trying for a job at the Small Business Development Center at TSU with Kathy and Billy. Such a GREAT move!
There was a room within the museum that showed all the sports greats that had been from Clarksville; I think Grady had fun climbing instead of looking at all the exhibits. Isn't he so cute?
The top of one part of the museum building looked like this; I was so intrigued by all the dormers and windows.
A plan of eating Mexican food was on the books; when I said the word Japanese, Debbie was taking us to Shogun's. There was some excitement when we pulled into Shogun's parking lot, there were three cop cars helping a huge group of Harley riders out of The Lodge restaurant next door. We went into Shoguns; there was a beautiful water fountain with fish. The food was awesome, and Grady loved the show that the chef put on. I liked the onion valcano.
Jim and Mike arrived home right after we had gotten there; they were tired, so Grady and the girls watched TV and even went outside to play football with Grady. The boys slept for a little while, and then we went to get hamburgers down the street.
The end of our visit was going to the Beechaven Jazz Fest; there were so many people at the festival, and Mike, Deb, Robin, Jim and I took turns walking with Grady. He liked to dart through the middle of the grape vines, play ball with the other children, and dance. We even caught Jim dancing with him while that Jazz music was playing. The counter where we were buying a couple of bottles, the cashier told us that other people were mixing the Beechaven Blackberry with their Peach wine. It was completely delicious; not to sweet, but not to dry.
At 8:45 p.m. we made our way to the car and told Grady, Mike and Deb bye. I knew it would be hard, but I hope Arizona is exactly what Debbie wants it to be. Believe me I will be visiting every chance I get, and hopefully we'll get to Las Vegas while I'm there. Good Luck Debbie!
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