I was Abe Lincoln in geek paradise

To help me continue looking like Abe Lincoln , you can buy me a stove pipe hat here --> http://www.amazon.com/Super-Deluxe-Stove-Adult-Shown/dp/B005L9D4IA/ref=sr_sp-btf_image_1_24?s=apparel&ie=UTF8&qid=1369671755&sr=1-24&keywords=stove+pipe+hat    :-P :-D  It's my birthday tomorrow so you can't possibly refuse! 

Please? 

So on Friday evening, my post box was extra special because it had this in it: 

The place we stayed at was beauuuutiful - http://www.shilohchennault.com/. It was decorated civil war style and each room was named after some civil war personality - Lincoln, Ulysses Grant, Robert Lee etc. We stayed in the Lincoln Presidential suite which had a huuuge portrait of Lincoln and two paintings of the shiloh battles, and old, antique furniture. You can imagine my excitement at all this! 

Jonathan got talking with the manager and we discovered that he was a brilliant Fulbright scholar to Sweden (omg!) and a Phd grad from Harvard (double omg!). Then we wondered why in the world a Harvard grad was working at a B&B and googled him (it is impossible to even exist without google). Turns out he has quite a past; the deetz of which I will not go into (poor guy). But, honestly, the guy was really nice, a fantastic cook (breakfast was out of this world) so we pretended to be completely oblivious of his *ahem* rather sketchy past. 

  

We visited all the Shiloh battlefields and since it was Memorial Day there were people from the military talking about all the wars fought by the United States over the years, beginning from the revolutionary war of 1775 to the Iraq war. There was also a fire demonstration using weaponry since 1775 to the modern day guns used in Iraq and Afghanistan.  The guy introducing them to the crowd got the year of the revolutionary war wrong and said 1776 instead of 1775. When I pointed this out to Jonathan, I was accused of being waaaaay too nerdy. SIGH. I let the insult slide though because he's absolutely right.

We were also allowed to sit in the jeeps and tanks used by the US during the second world war. HOW COOL IS THAT! 

The guy representing the second world war, on hearing that I was there on my surprise birthday trip, said that my interests were odd for a 'li'l young lady'. Then he excitedly showed me all his hand grenades  :-P .

Dinner was at 'Kokomo's '50's diner' in  Adamsville, TN which is a cool, little diner decorated '50s style that plays only '50s music. They were grilling burgers outside and as nice as it all was we were slightly annoyed in the end because they charged us extra for a burger we ordered at closing time. Hmph! Loved the place though :) .

 Lastly, we visited Memphis to meet the Hart twins who have been Jonathan's friends since he was a little boy. I saw the largest onion rings on the face of the earth in the bar we went to. I swear.. they were monster onion rings!

Literally every second of the weekend was fabulous and I had the best time ever.



Ok, don't forget my hat :D .

Oh, I had to mention this - I was called Meghan again. This time BY INDIANS!!! O.M.G. WHAT.