move into the country... gonna eat alot o' peaches...
sadly, no peaches. i think we came in the wrong season for that.
Lets see, we hit this part of Georgia on... Thursday evening, I believe. Hanging out with Sara and Ronnie is quite enjoyable. Some very interesting conversations we've had. Ronnie has an insane number of books, something like 13,000+. Craaazy. And piles and piles of records. Which I have a picture of and will upload eventually.
Yes, we do have a camera now. Sorry for the lack of pictures, but due to unforeseen circumstances.... well.... anyway we have a camera now. Pictures will commence henceforth. And we apologize for the infrequent nature of our posts. Our internet access has been quite scarce lately. But we'll do what we can.
When the night has come.. and the land is dark... and the moon is the only light we'll see... no I WON'T ... be AFRAID....
sorry. radio. anyway....
Ok, I'm really having trouble remember the order of events in which we did things, so i'll just list them and let you decide how you would like to chronologically arrange them yourselves.
Friday morning I slept. I think Andy went with them to a booksale. Or so they said. Later I went with them into Ila to run a few errands. We stopped at Tractor Supply for a few... non-tractor related supplies. While Sara was shopping, Ronnie and I had a interesting converstion about how big alot of homeschool families are. Actually we had ALOT of interesting converstions with him. Then we went to look for a refridgerator, and kinda got sidetracked by some books.
Sara and I worked on the fence she's building for her goats later that afternoon. Oh, we at lunch at the Ila Restuarant. Good food. Good tea. Hmm... while we were fencing... no wisecracks about my use of the word fencing... Andy and Ronnie went to move a sofa over to the new house. And at some point we moved a piano. Not so fun.
The piano moving was QUITE an adventure. Getting it out of the house it was in was a job in and of itself. After removing a plethora of equestrian memorabilia from atop the piano we moved it to the front door and decided to back the truck up all the way too the door and just load it straight on. Which went without too much of a hitch.
Ill be your crying shoulder.. i'll be loves suicide... i’ll be badder when i’m older... i'll be the greatest fan of your life
I'm just going to through these songs in as i feel like it. Deal with it. Hey, you know what? YOUR MOM. yeah.
So, now we're driving down the road. Andy and I are in the back of the truck holding onto the piano for dear life. I notice a cop car pass in by us... a minute later I see him behind us... closer.. closer... we come up to a stop sign... and then the blue and red lights of doom began flashing. We're all going to die. But he pulls past us, and we notice a wreck on the road a ways ahead of us. And way out here in the country a wreck on a two-lane road is a big deal. Especially at an intersection. I have a picture of two of this, but they will have to come later.
Finally we get home with the piano. And now we have to get it up the wooden stairs onto the porch. Which looks to be a very daunting task, for the piano is quite heavy. After a bit of discussion, its decided that I get to be a carpenter for a day. After a couple minutes, I've successfully removed a section of the railing from the porch and we back the truck right up to the porch, which turns out to be ALOT easier than the stairs.
And this post is getting LONG. must wrap things up. Ah, alritey, so we went into Athens that nite. Coffee shop, internet, blah blah, we went and saw Wild Hogs. do NOT see this movie. it is NOT worth the money. For such a great cast, it was horrible. The whole theater thought it was hilarious, though. I personally wanted my money back. It just wasnt funny.
Went home, blah, slept late, blah, back to Athens the next day. i think....
That day must not have been to eventful, because I don't remember too much. We headed home about midnight or a little after. We're not even out of Athens yet, when I start smelling something burning, and the temperature light comes on. We pull over as smoke is billowing out from under the hood. By the beard of Zeus!
After a bit of looking and pretending like we know about cars... it seems like we just need a bit of liquid in the radiator, since there is none. at all. Luckily we had a couple 2liters of water with us, and dump those in, and decide to try to make it home, as we don't really want to end up on the side of the road in teh wee hours of the morning.
We make it almost home, when we start to notice steam coming out from the hood. I drive for a bit longer trying to decide whether or not we can make it home, but not wanting to really mess up the engine. We pull over on the side of the road not too far from the house. We hope. But I dont really want drive anymore as the engine is really hot.
So. Its like 1:30am or so. I know Sara and Ronnie aren't up, as they usually turn in early, and we don't want to wake them if we don't have to. So we decide to push the car. Unfortunately, it's mostly all uphill. We put the car in neutral anyway, and start pushing, using a flashlight to see where we're going. We push and push.... going uphill is no piece of cake. Finally the incline gets too steep, and we just can't keep any forward momentum going. We just happened to stop right in front of this house that seems to have a large number of dogs dwelling there. Thankfully they're chained, or so we assume, as we are not attacked. They just bark and bark and bark.
Suddenly from out of the dark in the direction of the house.... "SHUT UP DOGS!!!!!!!" Somebody's awake. We hope they don't decide to come find out what the dogs are barking at. And if they do, hopefully they're not armed. A minute or so later we hear again... "YOU STUPID DOGS!!!! SHUT UUUUUP!!!!!!!"
We figure we should probly leave. But we can't push the car. And we can't drive it. And we're like in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. Our options are somewhat limited.
But I'm getting a headache, and I need to go find something for it. So I'll have to finish this later.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Monday, March 12, 2007
The road goes ever on and on...
A last memorable moment in Birmingham...
Before we left The Grill or whatever it was called, Brack and I went over to play a bit of pool. As we were racking up the balls, a couple approached us and asked if they could play against us. We glanced at each other, and were like, sure, why not. After a few close calls we ended up beating them, but I still wasn't sure if they were trying to hustle us or not. They were bothing missings shots but then were making some very nice shots with seemingly little effort. But my fears were put to rest as we thrashed them quite handily in the second game.
The group was getting ready to leave about this time, but we had time for one more game. This time the guy asked to play just me. So we racked them up and, I have to say, I went to town. I was crushing him. Then to my everlasting chagrine, I missed THREE shots in a row, two of which were on the 8 ball. *sigh* And he won. Ah well, it was still quite enjoyable.
We made it back to Atlanta around 2am or so. I don't recall much of the drive home, which I suppose I should as I was driving. However, I DO remember singing country at the top of my lungs, much to Josh and Andy's not-so-vaguely-displayed disapproval.
The next day or so were mostly uneventful. Until Monday afternoon, that is.
About 2pm I entered a poker tournament online with approximately 2500 people in it. About 7 or 8 grueling hours later, we were down to the final table, and soon thereafter the final four of the tournament, where we decided to make an even 4-way split of the winnings. We played out the rest of the tournament for formality's sake and also leaderboard points. After a few brief hands I took 1st.
WOOHOO. quite exhilarating.
Hmm... after that.... Ah yes.
Sadly, we were unable to see Leslie before we left Atlanta. Many sorrows. Hopefully we will make it through GA again and be able to rectify that.
Thursday afternoon we left Knicely's. His last words as we were leaving: "Hey, wait, I have A5 suited with about 5x the big blind, should I go allin?" I think we created a monster. No, actually he did say bye after that.
We're hot.
Rush hour traffic in Atlanta is HORRIBLE. yeah, Josh, i know, you told us that. Now we really know. it was crazy.
Our current place of residence? with Sara D and Ronnie at their new house. But more on that will have to come later, for my limbs grow weary and my attention wanes.
Dos vedanya.
Before we left The Grill or whatever it was called, Brack and I went over to play a bit of pool. As we were racking up the balls, a couple approached us and asked if they could play against us. We glanced at each other, and were like, sure, why not. After a few close calls we ended up beating them, but I still wasn't sure if they were trying to hustle us or not. They were bothing missings shots but then were making some very nice shots with seemingly little effort. But my fears were put to rest as we thrashed them quite handily in the second game.
The group was getting ready to leave about this time, but we had time for one more game. This time the guy asked to play just me. So we racked them up and, I have to say, I went to town. I was crushing him. Then to my everlasting chagrine, I missed THREE shots in a row, two of which were on the 8 ball. *sigh* And he won. Ah well, it was still quite enjoyable.
We made it back to Atlanta around 2am or so. I don't recall much of the drive home, which I suppose I should as I was driving. However, I DO remember singing country at the top of my lungs, much to Josh and Andy's not-so-vaguely-displayed disapproval.
The next day or so were mostly uneventful. Until Monday afternoon, that is.
About 2pm I entered a poker tournament online with approximately 2500 people in it. About 7 or 8 grueling hours later, we were down to the final table, and soon thereafter the final four of the tournament, where we decided to make an even 4-way split of the winnings. We played out the rest of the tournament for formality's sake and also leaderboard points. After a few brief hands I took 1st.
WOOHOO. quite exhilarating.
Hmm... after that.... Ah yes.
Sadly, we were unable to see Leslie before we left Atlanta. Many sorrows. Hopefully we will make it through GA again and be able to rectify that.
Thursday afternoon we left Knicely's. His last words as we were leaving: "Hey, wait, I have A5 suited with about 5x the big blind, should I go allin?" I think we created a monster. No, actually he did say bye after that.
We're hot.
Rush hour traffic in Atlanta is HORRIBLE. yeah, Josh, i know, you told us that. Now we really know. it was crazy.
Our current place of residence? with Sara D and Ronnie at their new house. But more on that will have to come later, for my limbs grow weary and my attention wanes.
Dos vedanya.
Saturday, March 10, 2007
sounds of praise
here's a little tasty morsel to tide you over until we post something of substance.
Friday, March 9, 2007
Alabama 2
Alrighty then. since Sam told the first part of the story it's up to me to tell the second. tho I don't use all the flowery language he does, it's the same info so deal with it. :P
Saturday morning, 11am. I wake up to Sam telling us it's a few minutes after 11 and that checkout ended at 11. we get out of there in about 2 minutes flat without any trouble. there's supposed to be a lunch group meeting at Silvertron. I think. it was something like that. it was an interesting place. our poor server had first 8 of us, and then steadily more until there were like 25 ppl trying to sit at one table. and then 2. I had rob sitting across from me, and beside him there was a young lady that I hadn't been introduced to yet. (later found out her name was Emily.) of course with so many people there are conversations going on all over the place so my attention is wandering. and then from across the table I hear "goulet". now if you don't know what that is then go get yourself educated. start with "Ferrell" and work from there. anyway, I did a double-take of course. not only do I never hear anyone outside my family say that, it was also Emily that said it, and I don't know one woman that is willing to use that term. needless to say, I was very impressed.
from there we headed over to the church even tho we still had a few hours to go. it was an pretty cool ceremony, short and sweet. wasn't quite my type as the pastor liked to add a bit of preaching into the service. and I hate that. if you go to marry people then marry them. preaching can be done on later dates. and those of you who disagree can take it up with me another time.
downstairs was there reception. they had approximately 26 cakes down there. tho I didn't count to be sure. simply amazing. we also noticed a suspiciously shaped gift for the bride and groom. I think it was a broomstick...I think it's best not to ask..let's just say I've never seen that side of Katy.
and there were delightful conversations and happenings that followed, too numerous to describe. there were some particularly interesting discussions with Toni, Barry, Emily, and Knicely. it was that or watch the dances so easy choice. :P then we all went outside to see them off. they left in a little grey Mini Cooper, (Rob's I believe,) and SOMEONE threw a handful of grapes through the open sunroof. we won't say who. but y'all can guess. it wasn't me.
at some point during the reception there was a decision made to go to an unspecified place downtown at an unspecified time with an unspecified number of people. that's literally all I know about it. ever so slightly confusing. so we drove back downtown where we went on Friday night and someone suggested we go to The Grape. bad choice. maybe it would have worked for a small group of people, and maybe if those people had actually wanted to drink wine, then MAYBE that would have been a good choice. but we had a lot of people, and not many wanted wine. and while they did have food, it was mostly cheeses and breads and things to compliment the wine. so lasted about 30 minutes and then left to go across the street to something something Grill. it was Brack and Julie, Josh, Sam, Leslie(female Will Ferrell,) and her daughter Kelsey, and myself. and of course, over the evening this group grew as well. we had a much better time here cause we could be rowdy and not feel bad. for example, at some point during the night Rob and Kat had a Walk-Off. ya know, Zoolander Style. I'm not actually sure who won that, they were both pretty good. Rob had it easier though because by the time he finished everyone from the surrounding tables was watching. so when Kat went she had half the restaurant watching.
and that's about all that happened. that I can remember. it's kinda blurry. the rest of the stuff is not stuff I can really say. after all, anyone can read this blog. oh and before I forget, a special thanks to Daniel Snyder. he knows why.
to finish this up we have a movie made by a guest director, Kelsey Jackson. she was a delight to be around and I'm glad Leslie brought her. (y'all excuse the way I act in this video, I tend to dumb myself down a bit around small children. and no jokes about my intelligence anyway. :P )
Saturday morning, 11am. I wake up to Sam telling us it's a few minutes after 11 and that checkout ended at 11. we get out of there in about 2 minutes flat without any trouble. there's supposed to be a lunch group meeting at Silvertron. I think. it was something like that. it was an interesting place. our poor server had first 8 of us, and then steadily more until there were like 25 ppl trying to sit at one table. and then 2. I had rob sitting across from me, and beside him there was a young lady that I hadn't been introduced to yet. (later found out her name was Emily.) of course with so many people there are conversations going on all over the place so my attention is wandering. and then from across the table I hear "goulet". now if you don't know what that is then go get yourself educated. start with "Ferrell" and work from there. anyway, I did a double-take of course. not only do I never hear anyone outside my family say that, it was also Emily that said it, and I don't know one woman that is willing to use that term. needless to say, I was very impressed.
from there we headed over to the church even tho we still had a few hours to go. it was an pretty cool ceremony, short and sweet. wasn't quite my type as the pastor liked to add a bit of preaching into the service. and I hate that. if you go to marry people then marry them. preaching can be done on later dates. and those of you who disagree can take it up with me another time.
downstairs was there reception. they had approximately 26 cakes down there. tho I didn't count to be sure. simply amazing. we also noticed a suspiciously shaped gift for the bride and groom. I think it was a broomstick...I think it's best not to ask..let's just say I've never seen that side of Katy.
and there were delightful conversations and happenings that followed, too numerous to describe. there were some particularly interesting discussions with Toni, Barry, Emily, and Knicely. it was that or watch the dances so easy choice. :P then we all went outside to see them off. they left in a little grey Mini Cooper, (Rob's I believe,) and SOMEONE threw a handful of grapes through the open sunroof. we won't say who. but y'all can guess. it wasn't me.
at some point during the reception there was a decision made to go to an unspecified place downtown at an unspecified time with an unspecified number of people. that's literally all I know about it. ever so slightly confusing. so we drove back downtown where we went on Friday night and someone suggested we go to The Grape. bad choice. maybe it would have worked for a small group of people, and maybe if those people had actually wanted to drink wine, then MAYBE that would have been a good choice. but we had a lot of people, and not many wanted wine. and while they did have food, it was mostly cheeses and breads and things to compliment the wine. so lasted about 30 minutes and then left to go across the street to something something Grill. it was Brack and Julie, Josh, Sam, Leslie(female Will Ferrell,) and her daughter Kelsey, and myself. and of course, over the evening this group grew as well. we had a much better time here cause we could be rowdy and not feel bad. for example, at some point during the night Rob and Kat had a Walk-Off. ya know, Zoolander Style. I'm not actually sure who won that, they were both pretty good. Rob had it easier though because by the time he finished everyone from the surrounding tables was watching. so when Kat went she had half the restaurant watching.
and that's about all that happened. that I can remember. it's kinda blurry. the rest of the stuff is not stuff I can really say. after all, anyone can read this blog. oh and before I forget, a special thanks to Daniel Snyder. he knows why.
to finish this up we have a movie made by a guest director, Kelsey Jackson. she was a delight to be around and I'm glad Leslie brought her. (y'all excuse the way I act in this video, I tend to dumb myself down a bit around small children. and no jokes about my intelligence anyway. :P )
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
alabama 1
Currently I do not recall what we did last friday, at least not early in the day. We decided to leave about 4pm or so for Mark and Katy's wedding in Alabama.
Of course, Josh wanted to take some shortcut or something over to I-20 through the backwoods. Skeptical as I was, and knowing full well we could get lost in the backwoods forever, we took the shortcut. And to his credit, we only made one or two wrong turns, and it did save us quite a bit of travel time.
After a fairly uneventful drive to Birmingham, well, if you don't count the accident which backed up traffic miles and miles on I20, and the semi-flat tire we had, and maniac that tried to run us over, we made it to the church where the rehearsal dinne/reception was being held. An hour to two early I might add.
There wasn't anyone there yet that we knew, besides Mr. Knicely (and im actualy referring to mr knicely here) that is, with whom we socialized out for some time discussing the finer points of appearing social without socializing, and also the joys just being plain anti-social.
Eventually people started arriving, and I was once again astounded at how many people Josh actually knows. Then more familiar faces began to straggle in. Adrian Cole, Mark and Katy, Liz, Brack and Julie, Emily, Rob.... David and Tiffany showed up fashionably late, Rebekah Palmer, then a few new faces.... Leslie Jackson, Daniel Snyder, and off the top of my head I cannot remember anymore. At least of those who were there Friday night.
Dinner was quite tasty. Chicken, potato salad, baked beans, grits, and cornbread muffiny thingies. With banana pudding for dessert. I heard rumor of some spiked banana pudding, but I'm unsure whether or not there is any truth to that.
We ate with Liz, and a couple other people who's names I dont remember... they were farther down the table. Across from us was Bonnie, and her sister whose name I do not remember. I only remember Bonnie's cuz I saw it in the program the next day. They were quite interesting folk. I dont think they were quite sure what to make of us three.
And then there was a movie all about Mark and Katy, and it was all nice and cute and sweet and thoughtful.... but in my humble opinion is was just a little too long. I kinda started getting bored. Im sorry, but its the truth. Then people got up and talked and cried and talked some more. Then they stopped.
After the festivities were over, tehGroup hung around for awhile chatting waiting for someone to make a decision. Now for the record, I have tried making decisions, but I have discovered through past experiences that my voice doesn't really carry much weight in that group so I have ceased such futile endeavours. Eventually they closed the church so we were forced to leave.
We decided to head back up into Birmingham to Five Points South or some such place. Not be confused with Little Five Points in Atlanta. And SOMEONE wanted sushi, so we ended up at some Japanese restuarant. Nothing on the menu really looked edible, so I orded the Ice Cream Trio. And the lady never asked me which flavors i wanted, something I neglected to realize, so I suppose she just guessed. I ended up with Vanilla, Ginger and Green Tea. Quite a diverse bunch of flavors. I ate them with chopsticks. Because on the chopsticks package it says you can pick up ANYTHING. So i was determined to use them for everything. It worked quite well actually.
I also tried some of Josh's sake. It wasnt bad. I didn't realize sake is served warm. It was quite interesting. But good.
And then it happened.
The sushi.
I DIDN'T ORDER IT.
But Andy and Josh were having some, and they put a piece of my plate. I didn't particularly WANT to partake but I figured I had to try it at least once.
So i picked it up with my chopsticks and proceeded to munch on my sushi, which incidentally was a Californa roll, supposedly a very americanized form of sushi and not TOO extremely flavorful. So I put it in my mouth and started chewing. Then I stopped chewing. And desperately tried to stop myself from throwing up all over the table. It was revolting. VILE. After a few moments, and some water, I managed to force it down.
I'm sorry, but sushi is disgusting. The taste not so much, although it wasn't too great. It was the texture! Absolutely gross.
After eating, we kinda disbanded for the night, and josh, andy, and I decided to find a cheap hotel room for the night rather than drive all the way back to atlanta. It took quite awhile too. We went to at least seven hotels before we found one with a vacancy. We found out later there were like 200 soccer teams in Birmingham over the weekend, so that could have been part of the problem. But we did find one finally.
We dropped Andy off, as he wanted to sleep, and Josh and I headed out to find a Waffle House. Which was not as easy as it sounds. We found one a few minutes later, but it was on the other side of the internet, so we took the exit there, which turned out NOT to lead to the waffle house. So we got to explore a few back roads near there and finally made it there. It was about 3 am now, and the Waffle House was overrun with ethnic not-so-minority minorities, but we didn't really care. As long as we came back out alive, who cares. Those waffles were tasty but they WERE filling.
I think I finally got to sleep around 6am or so, forgetting completely about the fact that you're supposed to leave BEFORE checkout time rather than after, and so the time I had set my alarm to wake up was exactly at checkout time. But that's another story for another day.
In the words of the great Tour Guide Barbie: Bye now!
Of course, Josh wanted to take some shortcut or something over to I-20 through the backwoods. Skeptical as I was, and knowing full well we could get lost in the backwoods forever, we took the shortcut. And to his credit, we only made one or two wrong turns, and it did save us quite a bit of travel time.
After a fairly uneventful drive to Birmingham, well, if you don't count the accident which backed up traffic miles and miles on I20, and the semi-flat tire we had, and maniac that tried to run us over, we made it to the church where the rehearsal dinne/reception was being held. An hour to two early I might add.
There wasn't anyone there yet that we knew, besides Mr. Knicely (and im actualy referring to mr knicely here) that is, with whom we socialized out for some time discussing the finer points of appearing social without socializing, and also the joys just being plain anti-social.
Eventually people started arriving, and I was once again astounded at how many people Josh actually knows. Then more familiar faces began to straggle in. Adrian Cole, Mark and Katy, Liz, Brack and Julie, Emily, Rob.... David and Tiffany showed up fashionably late, Rebekah Palmer, then a few new faces.... Leslie Jackson, Daniel Snyder, and off the top of my head I cannot remember anymore. At least of those who were there Friday night.
Dinner was quite tasty. Chicken, potato salad, baked beans, grits, and cornbread muffiny thingies. With banana pudding for dessert. I heard rumor of some spiked banana pudding, but I'm unsure whether or not there is any truth to that.
We ate with Liz, and a couple other people who's names I dont remember... they were farther down the table. Across from us was Bonnie, and her sister whose name I do not remember. I only remember Bonnie's cuz I saw it in the program the next day. They were quite interesting folk. I dont think they were quite sure what to make of us three.
And then there was a movie all about Mark and Katy, and it was all nice and cute and sweet and thoughtful.... but in my humble opinion is was just a little too long. I kinda started getting bored. Im sorry, but its the truth. Then people got up and talked and cried and talked some more. Then they stopped.
After the festivities were over, tehGroup hung around for awhile chatting waiting for someone to make a decision. Now for the record, I have tried making decisions, but I have discovered through past experiences that my voice doesn't really carry much weight in that group so I have ceased such futile endeavours. Eventually they closed the church so we were forced to leave.
We decided to head back up into Birmingham to Five Points South or some such place. Not be confused with Little Five Points in Atlanta. And SOMEONE wanted sushi, so we ended up at some Japanese restuarant. Nothing on the menu really looked edible, so I orded the Ice Cream Trio. And the lady never asked me which flavors i wanted, something I neglected to realize, so I suppose she just guessed. I ended up with Vanilla, Ginger and Green Tea. Quite a diverse bunch of flavors. I ate them with chopsticks. Because on the chopsticks package it says you can pick up ANYTHING. So i was determined to use them for everything. It worked quite well actually.
I also tried some of Josh's sake. It wasnt bad. I didn't realize sake is served warm. It was quite interesting. But good.
And then it happened.
The sushi.
I DIDN'T ORDER IT.
But Andy and Josh were having some, and they put a piece of my plate. I didn't particularly WANT to partake but I figured I had to try it at least once.
So i picked it up with my chopsticks and proceeded to munch on my sushi, which incidentally was a Californa roll, supposedly a very americanized form of sushi and not TOO extremely flavorful. So I put it in my mouth and started chewing. Then I stopped chewing. And desperately tried to stop myself from throwing up all over the table. It was revolting. VILE. After a few moments, and some water, I managed to force it down.
I'm sorry, but sushi is disgusting. The taste not so much, although it wasn't too great. It was the texture! Absolutely gross.
After eating, we kinda disbanded for the night, and josh, andy, and I decided to find a cheap hotel room for the night rather than drive all the way back to atlanta. It took quite awhile too. We went to at least seven hotels before we found one with a vacancy. We found out later there were like 200 soccer teams in Birmingham over the weekend, so that could have been part of the problem. But we did find one finally.
We dropped Andy off, as he wanted to sleep, and Josh and I headed out to find a Waffle House. Which was not as easy as it sounds. We found one a few minutes later, but it was on the other side of the internet, so we took the exit there, which turned out NOT to lead to the waffle house. So we got to explore a few back roads near there and finally made it there. It was about 3 am now, and the Waffle House was overrun with ethnic not-so-minority minorities, but we didn't really care. As long as we came back out alive, who cares. Those waffles were tasty but they WERE filling.
I think I finally got to sleep around 6am or so, forgetting completely about the fact that you're supposed to leave BEFORE checkout time rather than after, and so the time I had set my alarm to wake up was exactly at checkout time. But that's another story for another day.
In the words of the great Tour Guide Barbie: Bye now!
Monday, March 5, 2007
Atlanta
alright, we got a few days behind here, so I'm gonna try and start getting caught up.
thursday we drove down to atlanta to find something to do. we left pretty late in the afternoon so we were getting there well into the evening. about the time we got into the actual mid-town atlanta area the bottom dropped out of the sky. it was ridiculous, barely drivable. and it rained on and off for the rest of the night. we got into the area and then decided what we wanted to do. (kinda backwards, I know.) food sounded good, specifically pizza, so Knicely said Fellini's was good. at the time we're in Little Five Points, which is a town inside of Atlanta. everyone and their dog had said we had to go there, so we did. problem is, the Fellini's that Knicely remembers isn't here. so off we go in the rain, following Knicely's directions. (you'd think we would have learned. but no.) at this point I'm driving and I narrowly kill us lots and lots of times. sam and knicely are not happy. so we finally get there, and the pizza is pretty good, I think it was worth it.
after we ate same decided to take over driving. the plan was to go back to Little Five Points and get coffee and maybe go to a bookstore. so we had back, it's still raining on and off and we're still following Knicely's direction. and after all the complaining about my driving, now we see sam's not any better. at one point Knicely tells sam to turn left, and sam does, and we have 4 lanes of traffic coming at us on a 1-way road. thing is, sam didn't even realize it at first. then when the cars in our lane started flashing their lights at us, that's when he realized what was going on. eventually tho, we get back to Little Five only to find the coffee shop is closed. so off to the bookstore we go, to find it's closed too. so we just walked around and looked at the graffiti. which was pretty impressive, sadly I had left my camera in the car. I know, stupid. but if yall are ever in the atlanta area then check out Little Five Points. there wasn't much for us to do because at night all the fun is at places I can't get into, and we arne't active enough in the day to get there in time. but perhaps another time we'll see it in the day time.
thursday we drove down to atlanta to find something to do. we left pretty late in the afternoon so we were getting there well into the evening. about the time we got into the actual mid-town atlanta area the bottom dropped out of the sky. it was ridiculous, barely drivable. and it rained on and off for the rest of the night. we got into the area and then decided what we wanted to do. (kinda backwards, I know.) food sounded good, specifically pizza, so Knicely said Fellini's was good. at the time we're in Little Five Points, which is a town inside of Atlanta. everyone and their dog had said we had to go there, so we did. problem is, the Fellini's that Knicely remembers isn't here. so off we go in the rain, following Knicely's directions. (you'd think we would have learned. but no.) at this point I'm driving and I narrowly kill us lots and lots of times. sam and knicely are not happy. so we finally get there, and the pizza is pretty good, I think it was worth it.
after we ate same decided to take over driving. the plan was to go back to Little Five Points and get coffee and maybe go to a bookstore. so we had back, it's still raining on and off and we're still following Knicely's direction. and after all the complaining about my driving, now we see sam's not any better. at one point Knicely tells sam to turn left, and sam does, and we have 4 lanes of traffic coming at us on a 1-way road. thing is, sam didn't even realize it at first. then when the cars in our lane started flashing their lights at us, that's when he realized what was going on. eventually tho, we get back to Little Five only to find the coffee shop is closed. so off to the bookstore we go, to find it's closed too. so we just walked around and looked at the graffiti. which was pretty impressive, sadly I had left my camera in the car. I know, stupid. but if yall are ever in the atlanta area then check out Little Five Points. there wasn't much for us to do because at night all the fun is at places I can't get into, and we arne't active enough in the day to get there in time. but perhaps another time we'll see it in the day time.
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