Take Two. This photoblog post mysteriously vanished into the internet ether sometime following it's first 12 hours of published life. If you opened it via email subscription or here, during those first 12 or so hours, sorry for the repeat. I'm stubborn and just had to resuscitate. And here it was an attempt to liberate me from my computer–less words and a travel blogging with laptop not taken on our Martin Luther King Jr, Memorial holiday weekend get-away to sister town Chattanooga. Glimpses here of our eats, views, reviews and fun in this turned hip Tennessee town.

 Nana, Grace and I–bozo-haired–at the Tennessee Aquarium's IMAX. One of two showings we caught in our 24-hour stop in Choo-choo town. While I'm partial to IMAX, I'd never donned a pair of lovely 3-D eyewear.

In trying to save a buck, The Fiance found a deal. Interestingly, none of the discount sites mentioned that our under $100/a night lodgings were "cabins" in a docked, historic river boat. Here, the morning fog on the Tennessee River, viewed from the deck. The paddle wheel of The Delta Queen, below.

Twice we dined amid the chi-chi
post modern industrial digs of The Blue Plate. First, for breakfast
where Grace chose well: gargantuan Aretha Frankenstein's pancakes. We
liked it so much we returned for our mid-afternoon lunch before hitting
the road back to Music City.

Chattanooga has risen from an ugly industrial river-town to a shining
example of urban revitalization with pedestrian river bridges,
fountains to play in, an enviable amount of other public art and some pretty
funky neighborhoods surrounding its urban center. These snap shots taken
from inside the lobby of the IMAX and , below, just before I ducked into the
car–one of three aquarium buildings.
Seriously fun. Seriously cool.