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Walking in Memphis
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Lady D
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I'll be in Memphis mid-October on business - will have to check out the new mall while I'm down there. Hope they're open evenings!
luvthebeach, here is the link for the new mall!
http://www.theavenuealist.com/FindAnAvenue/TheAvenueCarriageCrossing/tabid/83/Default.aspx
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Cheering472
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I'll be in Memphis mid-October on business - will have to check out the new mall while I'm down there. Hope they're open evenings!
That mall is very nice. They are open evenings, not all night like Walmart, but regular mall hours. Enjoy!
thanks all. Have done some mall-crawling (I live virtually on the river, so the malls are a bit of a drive east--and thanks for the suggestion re another mall)--but the cultural life here is great, and yes, we've been to Beale Street a number of times. One thing I want to hype--the zoo. I had a tour today (doing development work w. my President...a long story)--but the zoo here is fabulous. Take your kids if you are in the area--I think Mr. NewYorker and I will have a "zoo date" when we can carve out some time. The students from my college evidently are regular attendees (the zoo is across the street from my college)
As for the empty nest--my son is already at college, so I thought that dropping off number 2 would not be as hard. I was wrong--it really was painful. To top things off--she got cut from the college field hockey team (it had been a dream of hers to play college field hockey)--the night she called crying is when it hit me about how far away she really was. A positive thing tho--her first-year seminar is "Katrina and the Politics of disaster" (which she loves)--and her college is flying the whole class down to NO on their fall break. My husband and I will drive down there and have a chance to see her--so I'm comforted by that. (we have a place to stay--but resturant recommendations are welcome--where would y'all take your college student in NO these days??)
As for the empty nest--my son is already at college, so I thought that dropping off number 2 would not be as hard. I was wrong--it really was painful. To top things off--she got cut from the college field hockey team (it had been a dream of hers to play college field hockey)--the night she called crying is when it hit me about how far away she really was. A positive thing tho--her first-year seminar is "Katrina and the Politics of disaster" (which she loves)--and her college is flying the whole class down to NO on their fall break. My husband and I will drive down there and have a chance to see her--so I'm comforted by that. (we have a place to stay--but resturant recommendations are welcome--where would y'all take your college student in NO these days??)
Lady D
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Oak Court Mall is another mall around the Poplar and Perkins area. Won't have to totally go out to the Wolfchase or Collierville area. I haven't been to the zoo since my son was around 7 years old. He is 24 now! But I am a person who doesn't go much. I only go out if I necessarily have to. I am a homebody in the evening!
I think you are doing beautifully, newyorker, with all the changes that are happening in your life. I'm glad you wrote so frankly about your children going off to college--our son is the same age as yours and our daughter is one year behind. When I was at the library yesterday picking up books about choosing and paying for colleges (dearest daughter has started making noises at this late date about maybe :!: wanting more than than State U), I also picked up one about how to cope with the empty nest syndrome. I figured I may as well be prepared for all scenarios! So thank you for saying it like it is.