Our Tennessee Life.: February 2012

This road trip started on Thursday February 16th and will end Friday the 24th.

February 16th, 2012

Day 1. Memphis. Four hours in. Lunch time at Central BBQ!

Day 1, we made it to Baton Rouge, LA. This was the hotel we stayed at.

Day 2! Houston. We left Baton Rouge that morning and headed to Katy, TX.. which is just west of Houston.

Tyner Christmas 02/17/2012 taken from Allen's Camera.

Allen's Mom and Dad.

Allen's Dad and the Christmas Tree.

Allen's Mom's tree!

Sherlock!

Allen's Dad and Me and some presents. See those two big blue ones? Those are mine!

Dad T. Handing Mom T. her gift from us.

It's a treasure box!

Sherlock is wondering what's happening.

Buried Treasure!

Oven mitts that I made for her!

Admiring her new coasters!

Admiring new dish cloths.

Sherlock!

Bringing a gift!

Sigh.

Bringing a gift.

Allen got a bacon ornament!

ahahahaha

I'm so awesome.

What could it beee?

Oh..it's a bag!

Oh it's a snowman!

How cute!

We love it!

what could it be?

Guess we'll find out!

Cowboy snowman bowls for Allen and me!

Love those bowls!

Allen took a picture of the Vita.. for no reason lol

Oh! a present!

Knives!

Oh there's the excitement that was missing in the previous picture.

Polka dot skillet!

Sherlock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mom T. opening a gift!

What could it be????

Oh a digital photo frame!

And some computer games!

And a farmville card!

Bringing a gift.

kitteeh.

Bringing a gift.

Oh hey.. Me opening a giant box!

whaaaat?

Oh!!! It's an easel!

A kitty named Sherlock.

Bringing a gift.

Oh hello giant box..

It's a big drying rack from Ikea!

Dad T sitting on the couch.

What could you be?

Dried fruit!

And a giant tray of pistachios.

YUM.

Look how many different things!

Oh hey.. I sure do like paper.

CARS!

More CARS!

CARS!!!

Epic Mustang of Epicness!

Pictures Taken with My Camera.. you can tell by the quality change! But hey, my camera doesn't fail me!

Sherlock got kitty treats!

Christmas tree!

Train ornament!

Mom T. with her treasure box.

Treasure box!

Oven mitt!

Coasters!

coasters!

Dish cloths!

Bringing a gift!

A gift!

FREAKING UTTER JOY!

So much fun!

You still haven't opened that gift yet?

Sloow opening gift.

What is it!? I can't see!

CALIFORNIA RAISINS!!!!

OW MY FACE

Lemme take your picture..It'll be like pictureception.

This time lemme do this with the flash off.

Why are we still doing this? And why are you wearing a "Where's the beef shirt?"

Oh good, maybe it's broken and we'll stop taking each others' picture.

Bringing a gift!!!!!

Everyone watching Allen open his gift.

Go ahead Allen, Take your time. No problem.

Look how much fun he's having.

What is it!?!?!

WHAT IS IT?!!?!?!?!!?!?

Still don't know what it is...slow poke Allen.

What could it be?

What? is that...

A bacon Ornament!!!! How cute!

Confusion

Bringing a gift.

Fun times!

What's happening?! Everyone looks so happy.

Oh! It's because this shirt it so funny!

No idea.

Bringing a gift.

Opening a gift!

YAY!!!!!!!!!!! FREAKIN' YAY!

Oh good..He's calmed down enough to read the back.

Bringing a gift.

Bringing another gift.

Kitty!!!!!!!!!

Hey is that mine guys?

It better be mine or I'll scratch you!

Bringing a gift!

Hey guys. Why is that gift on me?

Bringing a gift.

Kitty!

Opening a gift1

WHAT could it be?

A digital photo frame!

Games!

Zynga card!

Bringing a gift!

Bringing a Gift!

What are you gift?

Could it be?

OMG GUYS IT IS!!!!!!

A bacon rug!!!!!

YAY!!!!!

Bringing a gift.

Opening a gift!!!

What could it be?

Dried Fruit!!!!!

And a cat!!! lol

But really it's not a cat. It's Pistachios!

CARS!!!!!

CARS!!

CARSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

CARRRRSSS!

MUSTANG!!!

TIME FOR SLEEP

Oh no..I wasn't sleeping. Just was told to hide my eyes.

A train!!!

02/18/12

Day 2 in Katy-Train show, amazing Tex Mex and the Mall with the Target. I still don't know much about trains.... but I'm learning things.. Like 3 rails on tracks is stupid, and these people put so much time, effort, and money into their hobby. It's not just grown adults playing with toys. It's really awesome.

Notice the Whataburger cup. That's what I'm talking about.

I thought this train looked cool.

These are the 3 rail tracks that suck lol.

LOOK more 3 rail tracks.

This train was actually moving.

Poor Allen. We do these things to him and he's such a good sport.

Less amused. lol

TREEES

I can't get over how much time had to go into these displays.

This picture has the funniest story. This guy was a riot, and so nice. He was surprised I was taking pictures I think haha.

I have no idea what this is.

Another funny Allen face.

This produce shop is so much "Fun in Action"

Look! the smoke is shaped like trains!

I'm not really sure why I took this picture.

Look.. a pot to spit in.

My mind is a very sarcastic place. lol

I don't really know why I took this picture haha.

Pink conductor hat!

Yes. It really does say that.

This little roller coaster thing was so cute. We stood there and watched it for awhile.

I don't know why but I love this farm house.

Train crashed!

And right near the crash was this! Safe?! lol

This isn't real water! So cool how they create these things.

The Katy!

HOLY EPIC TEX MEX

Does anyone who was there remember why I took a picture of Red Bull on the ground under the car?

The mall hallway. This was the hall that had the train club.

A TARGET IN A MALL.

These trains were in the train club headquarters.

Here are some videos I took..

These are the pictures Allen took at the train show.

Panoramic view

This wasn't staged at all...

Haha

Me being awesome, as usual with my awesome glasses.

This was seriously the loudest bird ever.

02/19/12
Day 3 in Katy! Horse Races!- We went to Houston to the horse races at the Sam Houston Race Park.

I'm still not sure what he's doing here..

Our seats were right on the finish line.

I really was enjoying myself. This picture makes me look...like I'm not haha.

Again. I'm silly.

His shoulder smelled good.

Day 4 in Katy. NASA... We drove to Houston and went to see some serious history. ..And some serious futuristic stuff. Was soooo incredibly awesome.

The red eye always makes me think of Twilight vampires now. So it's Twilight vampires in space.

YEAH!!!!!!

I don't think he took any pictures of me where I wasn't taking a picture, looking at my camera, or contemplating the next picture I'd take.

These next pictures are of a Saturn Rocket.

I googled a Saturn V launch, and found this picture so y'all could see this amazing feat of engineering for it's time. This particular picture shows the launch of the Skylab space station aboard the last Saturn V rocket from the Kennedy Space Center on May 14, 1973.

Saturn V at Wikipedia

I added this picture so you can further understand what you're looking at. I found it on the Saturn V Wikipedia page. Click on it to make it bigger.

So the end of a Saturn rocket had 5 F-1 engines. From what I understand, These carried the rocket up and and out of the atmosphere. They used kerosene for fuel. Once the rocket was up high enough, these were jettisoned and landed in the Atlantic ocean.

This is the second section of the Saturn Missile. Allen's Mom took these pictures and I ended uploading them first. Later, when you see my pictures you'll be able to understand more of what you're looking at.

This is us standing under the front(top) of the Saturn Rocket. The dark colored section is where the astronauts would be sitting.

I can't wait till we go back to the moon with the Orion deep space exploration vehicles. They also plan to take it to Mars. This is supposed to take place in my life time. And to be honest... It's really really exciting.

This is the huge room where the astronauts train for their missions.

This is the viewing area where we looked into the room where they train.

They will soon be moving ALL of these things out of the building.

Everything will be going to museums.

They will be using the space for astronauts to train for Orion.

This is the mission control center used for most of the Apollo Missions.

It was one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

Riding on the Tram.

On The Tram.

lol

We really had so much fun with these helmets.

Moon Rocks

There's a moon rock in there..And we got to touch it.

In the theater.

NASA is so great because they also do some really interesting Ocean exploration.

Yum Food!

We really are this happy most of the time. I'm the luckiest girl in the world.

Knowledge

Life Support

Energy Resources

Construction Materials

The Moon. Duh.

the best part of this Wall was that Allen almost destroyed the entire thing haha.

Ok so here's the front end of the Saturn Rocket. Basically what you're looking at is the the launch escape system on the left. Basically if somewhere were to happen..and they knew in advance, the astronauts could disconnect their command module from the rest of the rocket and parachute down to the ground safely. This is all speculation though, since they never used this system. Next to that in the photo is the command module, which is the brown section. This is where the astronauts were throughout the entire mission. Once into space the Launch escape system is jettisoned. It's completely useless once they've left the atmosphere, and that's more weight they couldn't afford to take to the moon.

The Command module is part of the third stage of the Saturn Rocket. There is one J-2 engine attached to this section. The rest of the rocket is jettisoned before this engine will be used.

A different view of the Stage 3 rocket.

They've taken the rocket apart so that people can see where things were and what the astronauts did in space. Once the astronauts were clear of Earth's gravity, they moved their command module back behind the rocket. The moon vehicle would be in this section. And the command module fits in behind it.

This is the one engine on the back of the Stage 3 rocket.

The whole of the stage 3 rocket.

This is the next section of the rocket has 5 j-2 engines. It is used to propel the rocket above 42 above the Earth.

Back of Stage 2 and front of Stage 1.

The back of Stage one. I explained this further up. But here is some information copied from the Saturn V Wikipedia page.
The first stage burned for about 2 minutes and 41 seconds, lifting the rocket to an altitude of 42 miles (68 km) and a speed of 6,164 miles per hour (2,756 m/s) and burning 4,700,000 pounds (2,100,000 kg) of propellant.After S-IC separation, the S-II second stage burned for 6 minutes and propelled the craft to 109 miles (175 km) and 15,647 mph (25,182 km/h– 7.00 km/s), close to orbital velocity.

Me taking a picture of an F-1 engine.

Wind blown hair!

These next pictures are of the giant building that housed all of the Training equipment.

Spider-naut. This is new technology NASA will be using in the future. To me it looks like a giant replicator from SG1.. and we all saw how that turned out haha.

More pictures of mission control center.

He laughed every time I took his picture.

Saturn V! You know..when I first saw this, I was immediately reminded of this:

PUT THE VITA DOWN

This uniform was worn by Judith Resnik. Her family donated it after the Challenger explosion.

Me touching the moon rock.

Here are all the pictures I took in rocket park

He leaned on it thinking there was a wall behind it. No wall. Almost brought the entire thing down. Too funny.

We all took Saturn V pictures, but I was pretty thorough.

Woo!!!

He was so embarassed when I took this haha. He wanted to get a picture with me. It was so funny. I really should have haha.

I noticed this while sitting on the Tram...after going through to rounds of security..and them not finding my pepper spray, which was right there in my bag. It's a road the tram takes that goes under the freeway.. But you can literally just walk right into NASA from the freeway haha.

Biloxi!-2/21/12-2/22/12

Love it!!!

Allen playing Keno.

Me next to him playing poker.

Our Hotel.

Georgia!!!!-2/22/12-2/24/12

Allen and Cody at the Marietta Diner

Varsity hat!!

Kelly Clarkson Atlanta, Georgia.-2/23/12. My Camera's zoom wasn't working for some reason and Allen's camera died. So I ended up with some incredibly awful pictures. the good news is we met two friends at the concert. The one was in the same row as us and the other was closer. They both got good videos and pictures. So I'll post those. We were really really close to the stage..but you can't tell from the pictures.

I'm sooo soo soo Thankful and glad we met Laci and Crystal. Those two girls are soo awesome. And we were all sitting in similar spots near each other. So their pictures are almost exactly what Allen and I saw. So I definitely need to thank both of them for letting me use their videos and pictures. Next time we'll make sure we have the proper cameras for the show lol.

Crystal's videos-She was literally in the same row as us..Just over a little further. And her videos are a billion times better because she could actually zoom. This is really how close we were. So I don't really care that our pictures sucked.. Because she was incredible.