The Life of a Governor

Another free thing to do if your are visiting the Atlanta area is visit the Governors Mansion.  

Wouldn't you just love to relax on this side porch and overlook the gardens?

Fun in the A T L

This past week in Atlanta was all about free fun.  We have already done so much in Atlanta that cost an admission price, so we challenged ourselves to find something new to explore.

Fernbank Science Center
Fernbank is an educational facility that provides programs for science education.  It is both a planetarium and observatory as well as a natural history museum.

While in the planetarium we watched a movie about meteors and comets.  We got to hold a meteor that fell to earth and was created over 4.5 billion years ago.

Isaiah showing me another large meteor.

The theme of the day was sticking your head into a mouth full of sharp teeth.....

Evan, sporting the JCPenney catalog pose in front of a dinosaur

Logan, Evan and our friend "B" hanging out with dinosaurs

More fun in Atlanta to come!

Atlanta sneak peek....

We spent the last week down in Atlanta with Dennis on his annual business trip.  Our friend Robert, who worked with Dennis when we lived in NC had to attend the meeting last week as well so he brought his son, one of Isaiah's buddies.   We stayed at the same hotel that we stayed in last year, a lovely stay as always.  This year we spent most of our time at the pool.  We found a few free things to do to stay cool and occupy our time.  More on that later.

In the meantime, I will leave you with a photo taken of the guys at Dave and Busters restaurant/grown up arcade.

And this video of a guy on one of those dance games.  He had to watch the screen and step on the lighted floor color pattern  and scored PERFECTS every time!  It was quite amazing!

Thanks for stopping by.  Come back again for more Atlanta!

Christmas World Tour 2008 . trip 4

The last stretch of our journey was to travel south to South Carolina. Our dear friends the Edwards are living down there now. Our husbands work for the same company. We met shortly after we were transferred to North Carolina and lived near them. Our families clicked and we spent a lot of time hanging out swimming and boating. Duchess and I spent a lot of Tuesday mornings at Panera and then shopping together in town. My youngest and their oldest became fast friends. My son has been asking since we moved when he could go and see his friend B. So while Dennis had some time off for the holidays we included them in our World Tour Trip. Of course I have pictures of all the fun!

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Duchess and I

Hanging out playing the Wii

Great Bowling Scores



"Say Cheese", "No you say Cheese"

This is Duchess' photo of me taking a picture of her
This is my middle son. He loves Mr Robert. Every time he's around Rob he hangs out with him and asks him tons of questions. Robert, thanks for being so patient with my kid!

More Wii fun

This girl can bowl!!!!

This kid bowled 9 strikes in a row!!! Way to go B!

Popsicles in January!

This is where Duchess and I would sit all summer, talk and drink sweet tea while watching our kids play football in the front yard....if I only lived in SC.

We've said our good-byes. We hope you'll come up and see us some time this summer. Here are the beautiful mountain ranges that are just north of the Edwards home.

Christmas World Tour 2008 . trip 2

Trip #2

We left for Columbus Ohio on Monday Dec 28th. We planned to visit Dennis' mother, who was in town from Florida and Dennis' oldest brother and his family. Our friends from Cleveland just happened to be in Columbus Monday and Tuesday so we made plans to include them in our visit.

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Here we all are at the Mexican resturant.

Isaiah made a face with rice, french fries and the chocolate syrup left on his desert plate. Such a creative child.

Our friends Rich, Jodi and Joshua from the Cleveland area

The next leg of our journey was to drive down to West Virginia to see Dennis' brother Mike. Along the way we passed through Rio Grande OH - home of - if you didn't already know- the famous Bob Evan's orginal farm and homestead. I begged Dennis to take me by to see it. I always see pictures of it on the menu. I need a life!

That's all for Trip 2. Stay tuned tomorrow for Trip #3 and some New Years Eve fun!