St. George Island, FL

Becky and I rented this little car to drive around the island. We are having a big time. For more pictures see Jennifer's website: www.barrynjennifer.com/gallery

Vacation

We're on vacation... Becky and I are on vacation in beautiful St. George Island, FL. We've been here since April 29. We are here with Becky's family. The beach house is wonderful and we are about 70 yards from the water- which by the way is the clearest I've ever seen it (you can be in water waist deep and still see your feet and the bottom).
We have mainly been staying at the house, but yesterday we went into town (back across the bridge) to "mingle with the locals." We went shopping and then ate lunch at the Owl Cafe- mine and Becky's favorite restaurant (honeymoon memories).
Today (Wed) we are going to rent some scooters and go ride around and maybe even have a picnic at the park at the end of the island.

Jennifer is going to try and upload some vacation pictures to her website- if so I'll email you all the link.

- Jason... I'm off to go drink some coffee on the deck...

Easter 2007

Becky and me on Easter Sunday.

This picture is the TN State Capital building on "the hill". At one point it was the tallest point in Nashville. This is where the TN House of Representatives and the Senate meet.

The second picture is in one of the committee rooms at the TN Legislative building. We were listening to a lecture from a Capital Hill Lobbyist.

Official Business

I have just returned from a day long series of meetings at the TN State Capital attending both the House and Senate sessions. This whole day has been extremely interesting and educational. I had the opportunity to observe my local elected officials in action. I even saw Representative Dr. Joey Hensley, R-Hohenwald at the House general assembly. I waved at him from a distance- he waved back, but I could tell he wasvpuzzled by who I was (it was rather far).
I have about an hour before our Leadership Bartlett class has dinner with our House Representatives: Jim Coley and Ron Lollar and Senators Paul Stanley and Mark Norris.
I have greatly enjoyed this day and I know that tomorrow will be even better.
I hoped to update the blog with some pictures I took, but was unable to get the camera to work(more on that later).

Breaking News. . .

I got to tour the WMC News Channel 5 studio today and chat with several of the weather anchors. This is a picture of the news "on-air" studio desk.
FYI- all the artwork in the background are actually banners. That is also the same studio where the old Monday Night Wrestling was held- Mohammand Ali and Hulk Hogan both fought in that studio.

A Different View

This is what I got to experience today. It was atop of a 95 foot ladder on the Bartlett Fire Dept's newest fire truck. I could see Wolfchase Galleria just as plain as day and even a couple of buildings from downtown Memphis.
I was able to meet with leadership from the Bartlett Fire Department as a leader in the City of Bartlett today to discuss their dept and how citizens can be more involved. I must say all the men and women of the BFD were professional, knowledgeable and extremely inspiring.