Opelika Date Night

Got to our hotel early for a change, just in time for Donny to take a little snoozer while I took some work calls. (Yes, this is a disturbing trend...😉)

Headed out for a quick nine holes on Grand National’s Lakes course. Beautiful evening with the course to ourselves. Had a few glasses of wine on their veranda as night fell, chatting with our server who, despite being born & raised in Peachtree, Georgia, had no accent. Her parents insisted that she not develop an accent as they didn’t want her to have the “talk slow, think slow” stigma that can be associated with a Southern accent.

Back to the hotel bar which had about 100 people from a “Georgia Built” convention and 0 masks (super spreader event!) Fortunately it was outdoors so we were able to social distance after ordering at the bar wearing our masks.

Folks were nice but it is certainly bizarre to see the wanton disregard for disease prevention protocols.Read more