2016 March 8, Tuesday, Waynesboro, Lawrenceburg, Mt Pleasant, Columbia, & Spring Hill, Tennessee

Yesterday was a gorgeous, breezy day for traveling and to take pictures.
Our first stop was at Randy's One Stop to purchase lottery tickets for two weeks and to grab a quick snack of cheese crackers and soda
Next, we travel up Hwy 43 taking the new overpass west on hwy 64 to Waynesboro, Tennessee.
From Waynesboro we traveled thru Lawrenceburg taking hwy 43 north.
From Lawrenceburg we took the scenic route through Sandy Hook and through several small un-incorporated towns along the old Lawrenceburg highway.

Lawrenceburg Old Highway

Next, we traveled through Mt Pleasant stopping just long enough to take a few pictures of old historic homes and buildings.

We stopped at St John's Episcopal Church and Cemetery where many of President Jame A Polk relatives are buried.
Four of the Polk brothers donated the land and built St John's Episcopal Church.
Now a historic building and site no longer used for services.
I walked along the grounds stopping to take pictures of the church and cemetery.

St John's Episcopal Church and Cemetery  in Mt Pleasant

St John's Episcopal Church and Cemetery 

Next, we took highway 243 into Columbia.
We stopped at Columbia Academy, now a private Christian Academy but once was called Columbia Military Academy.
The Academy was built as an arsenal for the US Army in 1891.
There were several building built in the Colonial Revival Romanesque, Georgian Revival style sitting on sixty seven acres on West seventh street.
The first building had three levels with a red slate roof, white brick or stone, lots of windows, and rounded arched door ways.
One of the buildings had two chimneys, triangle roof with black shingles, and a tin covered porch.
The last historic building also had three chimneys, triangle roof, open porch on the first and second levels with lots of windows.

Columbia Military Academy

Columbia Military Academy

We stopped to take a picture of an historic white building built 1859 that had been used as a bank now abandoned and for sale.

Built 1859 home but used by a bank 

Next, we rode into the historic downtown area of Columbia  stopping along the way to  take a few pictures of historic building and homes.
Columbia is the home to our President James K Polk.

Downtown Columbia

Maury County Courthouse

First Presbyterian Church 

President James K Polk Home/Museum 

St Peters Church in Columbia

1835 The Rectory of the Athenaeum School for Girls 1852-1904 now a museum 

We finished the day by riding farther north to Spring Hill.
We stopped at Moe's Southwest Grill for dinner.

I ordered a fully dressed taco it was a crispy corn tortilla with chicken, pico de gallo, corn chowder, homemade Guacamole, sour cream and and cheese dip with chips.

 Hubby ordered a Home-wrecker  

It was served on a flour tortilla with seasoned rice, beans, shredded cheese, pico de gallo with lettus, sour cream and guacamole.
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Taco with chips and cheese dip

We walked next door to Sweet CeCe's Frozen Yogurt.
$3.99 was the cost to fill your cup with yogurt and goodies.
I filled mine with strawberry yogurt and five chocolate covered almonds.
What a way to end the day.

2016 January 1 Friday, "New Years Day" Star wars The Force Awakes

Had a great New Year's Day

We rode to the Carmike Thoroughbred 20 Theater in Franklin, Tennessee 

to watch the action, adventure, Sci-Fi, and fantasy movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Movie Tickets

The Force Awakens

Carmike Thoroughbred 20 Theater in Franklin, Tennessee

This theater has rocking seats, and wherever you sit, you can see the movie without breaking your neck. 

I was surprised to see a new droid addition, BB-8, which replaced the archaic C-3PO and R2-D2 droids. 

Apple sells the BB-8 App-Enabled Droid by Sphero for $149.00, which is controlled by your iPad or Iphone.

This BB-8 droid is on display at Target.

BB-8 relates to your interactions, showing a range of expressions and actually perks up at the sound of your voice commands. 

I had seen one of the droids for sale at the Apple Store and wondered where they had come up with the Idea. 

The movie was action-packed and kept my interest throughout.

The movie brought back a couple of the original characters, Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca, and C-3PO.

I had cooked waffles, bacon, and eggs for breakfast earlier that morning. It was after 2 P.M., and we were both getting hungry, so we rode to Restaurant Alley at Cool Spring.

We decided on Famous Dave's, one of my favorite places to eat.

I ordered 1/3 St. Louis-style spare ribs, collard greens, sweet corn on the cob, & sweet cornbread.

Their iced tea is to die for, and I got a cup to go. 

My husband ordered their special 8-oz rib-eye steak with Caesar salad, baked potato, and toast. 

We had enough food for three, so we brought a box home for later. 

Cornbread, corn on the cob, collard greens, ribs

The mall parking lot was full, so we decided to ride home.

We rode south on I-65 to the Spring Hill Exit.

My husband asked if I had ever been through the historic town of Mount Pleasant, and I said no. 

He said that before the four-lane highway was built, you had to go through several small towns to reach Nashville. 

We stopped at Rite-Aid, which was built right next to an ancient cemetery. It was so old that the brick wall was falling down on the back side, and that is where I walked through to take a few pictures.

Cemetery near Rite Aid

We stopped right in the middle of town, where we saw the Civil War monument and several Indian markers. 

Indian Plaques Statue

Civil War Statue

Mt Pleasant

It was getting dark by this time, and it is hard to get good pictures while riding in the car.

I took a few pictures of the setting sun as we rode home. 

Blue Sky with a hit of white, yellow as the sun was setting 

We had a good day, we watched a good movie, filled our bellies with good food, rode through a historic town (that I had never seen), and watched the sun go down on our journey home.