Week-end in frozen Alabama with Robbie

Since I know that I have some ISU readers (Hi Norway, Germany, Netherlands and India!) I thought you would like to see some pics of Rob wearing something else than a spacesuit. The guy is doing great. He is covered with NASA badges (which makes it a lot easier to enter the Space Museum for free), still has telecons on sunday mornings and wears his St Louis Cardinals cap with the stickers still on it!
We took off Saturday afternoon for the Jack Daniel's Distillery in Lynchburg, TN, which is the America's oldest registered distillery. Hassan, you would have loved that place!

We learnt about the whole process of making great wiskey and we each bought a bottle of their Gold Medal series ('54 and '81) which we tried right away in our coffee.

We then went for some elbow lifting exercise in Huntsville, AL. They have some amazing redneck places over there ;) We started with a Jazz bar, then we moved on to the most redneck place I've ever been and eventually ended up in a small bar with a very cool band playing old rock songs. For information, Robbie had his shoes on all night ;)

Waking-up sunday morning was a bit tough... We spent sunday afternoon at the Space Museum, playing with big toys and landing space shuttles and finally went back to the hotel to watch the Super Bowl with one of Rob's colleague.

(That one is for you Rocky!)

Watching the Super Bowl basically consists in watching 3 hours of commercials interrupted by some Amercian Football. To be honest I think I crashed some time during the 2nd quarter and woke up in the middle of the third one. Robbie was asleep by the end of the third one...

Me watching American Football (that pic is worth millions!!!)

I then drove back the 250 miles between Huntsville and Atlanta, holding my coffe mug the all time, and made it to Atlanta by 2:30 am that morning. I don't know for Rob but I really had a great time ;) I'll post pics as soon as Rob send me his.