Chattanooga, part 1

I tend to pick places for vacations that are state parks with plenty of walking trails, but variety is the spice of life and The Husband had a hankering to see the Chattanooga Lookouts. Chattanooga, it was! I had been as a child, and we had taken the kids when they were young, but we hadn't done everything, after all.

We got a decent morning start so that we could stop and eat on the way and still get there in good time. We looked online ahead of time, hoping to avoid the national chains, and headed for Little Libby's in Madison, Alabama.

Here's the front of the menu:

There was a bizarre notice inside the menu praising the 2nd Amendment and Guns and such, and if I'd seen that soon enough we'd have left. Apparently they are quite the right-wingers, and I'm not happy having my nose rubbed in a business' political views, but there we were, so there we stayed. You can see the menu items at the GrubHub link without the guns intruding.

The food was delicious. They brought us some hush puppies to start, and I had the catfish plate:

The Husband had a sandwich and banana pudding:

There were too many customers for me to even attempt a photo of the interior, but it was a comfortable setting. The service was flawless -fast, accurate, and friendly. But I can't help that I wondered if she was carrying or who around me might be armed. If we were locals we'd try to find a place less overtly welcoming of armed customers and less public with their politics. But that's just me. Like I said, the food and service were excellent.

The Husband had selected a hotel with an eye to being as close to everything we wanted to do downtown as possible, and he hit the jackpot with the Marriott Courtyard. The room was a nice basic hotel room, and look how close we were to the Aquarium (that pointy-roofed building across the street):

and the baseball field was just a block or so away. Nice! Once we got unloaded we explored a bit along the Tennessee River, which was a couple of blocks away just on the other side of the Aquarium.

There's a sculpture garden, too, and although we didn't go to the art museum we did walk along the path with the sculptures:

Along the path there was what might be called a pocket park highlighting some of the local history:

Here's the view over my shoulder as we left that area heading back to the hotel:

When we took the kids when they were little we stayed in the Chattanooga Choo Choo hotel, and that was great fun, but this downtown location suited us better this time. When we're on vacation like this we take some food with us (dry cereal, peanut butter, chips, etc.) and snack for breakfast and supper, only eating out for lunch. So this brings our Arrival Day to a close, since I didn't take a photo of that snack supper.