Sadly, I did not think to take ANY photos while I was in Georgia with my parents in November! I was only there a couple of days. We didn't do anything special (But watching Hallmark movies with my Mom was fun!) and we got to play rummicub in the morning, we did a little shopping and errands. It was pretty low key.
November 8 in the afternoon, Mike and I drove up to Salt Lake and spent the night with Nick and Kaylee. We just barely got there in time to see the kids before they went to bed. We had to get up early as Mike's flight on Friday morning was at 7 am. He was heading to Atlanta airport to drive on down to Fort Valley and stay with my Dad so Mom could travel with Donna from Georgia to SoCal and go to All Girl's Weekend at Aunt Tuny's house.
Well, this ended up being a very forgetful trip for me. I forgot all kinds of things.
For starters, as we were driving up I-15, I realized I'd forgotten Rachel's Carrots. I'd shared the picture above of my garden carrots and told her I'd bring her some. She loves picking carrots and they have had a few in their little grow boxes, but I wanted to bring her some nice fresh big ones with the tops on them. But I forgot them. Oh well. Luckily, Mike DID remember to bring Mom's car key she'd mailed to him the week before. Mike was going to get on the Groome Shuttle at the Atlanta airport and get into Mom's car at Warner Robins and drive to Fort Valley.
Kaylee was the lucky one to get up at 4:30 am to get us to the airport close to 5 am. (yawn). We got there, Mike and I went through security and I realized I had left my phone on the windowsill in the basement bedroom at Nick's where we'd slept. Poor Kaylee! She had barely gotten home (or maybe not even) and had to turn around and come back. But she found my phone, found me curbside where I was waiting for her, I got it and all was well. Except Kaylee missed out on a lot of sleep. Thanks, Kaylee! You are such a sweetheart!
Mike's flight was delayed, and he got to his Groome shuttle in Atlanta with only one minute to spare! But mine was okay. I was on JetBlue going down to Long Beach. It was a very short flight and I enjoyed it as we flew over the I-15 corridor in Utah and I could see my neighborhood--probably my house had I looked hard enough!
Aunt Tuny came and got me, we had a nice visit while waiting until later in the afternoon for the rest of them to come. We went to get Mom and Donna at the airport. I realized that I'd forgotten to bring the family portrait photos that I'd wanted to mail to Mom and she said back in August or September, "Oh just bring them to AGW." But I forgot.
I also forgot my paper with the exercise assignments that I'd been given by my PE 4040 gals I'd been working with as a guinea pig.
I also forgot to bring a notebook to take notes on during the conference I was going to attend after AGW. The last time I went, there was no bag or notebook or anything--just a mug (?). So Aunt Tuny gave me one of hers, so that was very nice. I felt more prepared for my next adventure. Except I also forgot to bring the hotel information for where Mike and I were going to stay in Atlanta while I was at the conference. That was a little disconcerting since I didn't have a confirmation number or anything.
Mike spent those few days with Dad (Friday evening, Saturday, Sunday--they went to Church together) and I was with Mom and Donna and the gals in Huntington Beach for those few days. And then we got to Atlanta on Monday afternoon/evening and joined Dad and Mike there in Fort Valley. Donna just dropped off me and Mom and she went on home to her house.
Mike and Dad had picked up pecans! They boxed them up, so one afternoon, we went out to see how much it would be to ship them home, or if we should instead spend $25 on Delta and take it as luggage. Luggage won. It would have been over $60 to ship it UPS. Yikes! We did go out to eat with Mom and Dad that day and went to Golden Corral. I bought a birthday card and mailed Ella's birthday present I found in Huntington Beach.We really didn't do a whole lot at Mom and Dad's. Just chilled.
Donna was so sweet and drove Mike and I up to Atlanta on Wednesday afternoon so I could attend my conference there. We found the hotel, dropped us off and headed back home. Quick trip! Luckily, they did have my reservation and we got checked in. Comfy suite on the 8th floor.
We decided since we were there early enough that we'd walk down to the Georgia Tech Conference Center and attend the opening reception. They always have good food. And this year was no exception. We also stopped in at Publix and got some snacks and drinks for the room.
It was a cold, rainy, windy walk there and back that evening, but it was kind of fun and exciting. It's a 15 minute walk or less to the conference center from the hotel. Which was under construction and a bit inconvenient on occasion and in places. (our hotel, not the conference center) Our room was comfortable, but cold. Our heat didn't work after the first night and poor Mike froze all Thursday while I was at the conference and he was inside reading. Brrr. They finally brought a space heater the second night. On Thursday, while Mike read his novel, I learned at the conference and we ate in that night. I grabbed us some Taco Bell from down the street. He was too cold to go out in the wind and cold.
Friday, he called about the heat, but it didn't work well enough so that's when they brought in the space heater. I met him at 11:30 a.m. and we did lunch together at the Varsity. We got our MARTA passes. He ventured out that afternoon and saw the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank and Monetary Museum. We took a trial ride out to the airport to time how long it takes to get there. We at out at a nice restaurant that evening (Sushi).
The conference ended on Friday afternoon, but we decided to stay that extra night and determined that we would go to the Georgia Aquarium on Saturday since Mike had never been there.
It was wonderful.
We could really dawdle around, so we did. We had a late lunch/early dinner, retrieved our bags from the hotel and headed out to the airport via MARTA to catch our flight home to Utah.
It was uneventful, even hauling around a 35 pound box of pecans until we could get it checked with our other baggage. Our seats were not together initially, but after a bit of shuffling, we did end up together for the flight home. Nick picked us up in Salt Lake, we headed to their house and had a good night's sleep. We went to Church with them at 11 am on Sunday after enjoying a good breakfast with the kids and we even had dinner, too, before driving home to Cedar. I think we got in around 6 pm or so.
And I was home for 2 days to bake pies and work and and train a new hire before we headed out again--this time to Denver for Thanksgiving at Katie's house!
Whew! What a whirlwind fall we've had.
P.S. Whale Sharks are big.
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