Atlanta Trip

We went to Atlanta last weekend to visit friends and had a wonderful time. We started the weekend off playing at the parks, relaxing with wine and visiting with old friends and their children. We visited Fernbank & the kids got to explore the dinosaurs and a very nice frog exhibit (who knew there were so many kinds of frogs!) Sunday brought our first trip to IKEA, which Roger gamely tolerated for awhile until I suggested he and Britt take all 4 kids to a park & we would catch up with them later :-) They were out of there in a flash & I could relax & take in the IKEA experience.....I did enjoy the Swedish meatball lunch and Natalie actually loved the lingonberry juice! Very unusual for her to try something so unknown.

One of the highlights of our visit was riding thru the very tony neighborhood streets of Decatur on our friend's vintage tractor! He has restored it to it's original condition & we took it out for a spin thru the neighborhood. Needless to say, I'm sure the neighbors are aghast and the country bumpkins driving a tractor (!) down their street! Too funny!!

On Monday morning, we hooked up with our friends, the Laydens, at the Georgia Aquarium. This was our first visit and I highly recommend it! It was truly a lovely adventure and the exhibits were first-class as you can see from the slideshow. My favorite was the tropical tank...it is amazing how brightly colored and patterned the fish are. And they knew exactly how to display the fish to bring out their colors. Beautiful.

We loved seeing the Layden's again.....Natalie and Ian have been anxious to see each other...but they were pretty quiet most of the time :-) Anna and Li Li were two peas in a pod having fun and getting along just great. I can't wait to see them again. Debbie and Dan are always fun to be with....like we've known them forever.