Trip to Atlanta
We started out visiting my friend since high school, Ryan Shams. He and his wife, Alicia, just had their first child, Anjali.
She is now just about three months old, but she partied all day with us as we played some impromptu “smaller games”. If you’ve seen “Minute to win it” you’re on the same page. This is basically what my friends and I did at each other’s houses on the weekends to pass the time. We had a website of events, standings, and even medals. Someone must have found that site and decided it’d make a great game show, because I swear some of the things on that show are dead on versions of the challenges we did.
After all the games we worked up quite an appetite and finished the day right by eating at a favorite shuck shack of the Shams’ and playing trivia. First place secured.
We then spent the following day visiting Christy’s old roommate, Jennie. She and her husband, James, just got a new house in Atlanta (like just 2 months ago!) with a cool red door.
We spent the next couple days with them exploring areas of Atlanta like Midtown, Decatur, Buckhead and the international grocery store which was like a city by itself. We even found a cool, hidden pie shop serving a mean homemade peach pie…
The next morning the girls woke up early to do a morning run (that Christy sticks to her half-marathon training). And I took the opportunity to take a photo-run / walk. We were in a great area so I saw a lot of neat things..
Later that night Jennie showed us her culinary skills preparing a delicious meal featuring chicken with blueberry compote, cornbread, and finishing with peach sorbet and sugar cookies. Yum!
Oh, forgot to mention that Jennie also treated us to an excellent breakfast casserole (or was it a “Sasser’ole”?) in the morning as well.
With our friends going back to work, we finished the trip amongst ourselves checking out the tourist attractions like the Olympic Park, the Georgia Aquarium, and Federal Reserve Bank.
It was a great trip and here are the rest of the pics to prove it…
