Chattanooga

Last weekend we took a trip to Chattanooga, Tennessee that was part business, part pleasure. To give some background, Chuck and the rest of the LGO and Sloan students are right in the middle of recruitment period. This is the time of year when companies from all over the country and the world come to Sloan to recruit the students to come work for them after graduation. The students can interview for as few or as many companies as they would like. Chuck has been interviewing for a few companies, but one of the companies he already has an offer from is Amazon, where he did his internship.

Amazon has fulfillment centers (where they hold all the goodies you order so they can ship them out to you quickly when you click that beautiful, yellow "buy now" button) all over the country. If you are offered a position in the "pathways" program, you can choose which fulfillment center you would like to work for after graduation. So last weekend, Amazon flew us to Chattanooga so Chuck could check out the FC there, as he's already seen the ones around Louisville and in several other cities.

Boston sent us off to Tennessee in fashion on Thursday night!

 It works out that our best bud, Branden, lives in Chattanooga so we made a weekend out of it and got to spend some time with him as well!! Chuck had a great visit at Amazon and then we got to spend the rest of the weekend catching up with Branden and his new girlfriend/our new friend Tyler.

Unfortunately it rained the entire time we were there- Thursday night through Sunday evening- so we didn't get to do much outdoors.  We mostly ate, chilled, drank, ate some more, drank some more, and... ate. When we weren't eating or drinking, were walking the mall and waving to Santa, watching football, playing pool, or talking to a cab driver for way too long about nonsense.

Our favorite spot was Warehouse Row, an area in downtown Chattanooga with all of these brand new shops and restaurants. We went there twice- once on Friday night for happy hour at a place called The Social and the second time on Saturday morning for brunch at a place called Tupelo Honey Cafe. YUM. 

 

Branden and Tyler at the bar watching a football game before we played some pool.

 Pretty sure we got photo bombed by the guitar player...

We loved meeting all of Branden's Tennessee friends and hanging out with him and Tyler. The best thing about Branden is whether you're at a bar or just simply walking the mall, you're guaranteed a to have a good time!