More catching up! The middle weekend in October we crossed a couple of things off our "to do" list: the GA Aquarium and the World of Coke! We left home on Thursday and spent the night at "Aunt" Sarah's in Atlanta. She cooked a yummy supper for us and we arrived just in time for supper and some quality time with Sarah and her Mom, now known as "Gav" (Great-Aunt Vicki). That way, we were able to get a good night's sleep and be ready to hit the aquarium right when it opened Friday morning. Going on a Friday was a great plan. There were no lines and no hoards of people, like I hear often happens on the weekends, so I'm so glad we worked it out to visit on a weekday. Sarah went with us and Emmy had a great time checking out all the fish, penguins, sea horses, jellyfish, and on and on.
We spent a solid couple of hours exploring the exhibits, then decided it was time to move onto other activities. I'd packed snacks, so we stopped outside and enjoyed the beautiful weather for a few minutes and refreshed before we headed across the plaza to the Coke Museum. If you know me, I love some Coca-Cola so it is a wonder I'd never been before, but indeed, this was my first trip. The first few minutes of the tour you are in a room filled with memorabilia and a nice lady was telling us all about it. Interesting, perhaps, but not when you have a toddler on your hands who could care less and decides now is the time to throw a temper tantrum AND you are locked in a room full of paying customers/strangers with no where to go. I started to get twitchy, but as soon as the crying started, it stopped. A few long minutes, we were ushered into the theater to watch the 6 minute movie, which Emmy is still talk about a month later. This was her first "movie" and she was fascinated. There is a character in the movie named Wendy and Emmy continues to mention seeing Wendy. Someone dressed as Wendy was in the museum for photo ops, but Emmy did not want to go see her or have her photo taken with her, or even wave to her, no no. She just wanted to talk about her, and still does talk Wendy frequently. More and more I see Aunt Mer in that kid...she won't have anything to do with adults in costumes.
We pushed Emmy to her limit by hitting both places, but she did so great. We rounded out our afternoon with lunch at the Varsity. Emmy's first trip! Of course we had a frosted orange for dessert and she thought it was fabulous. She was asleep before we even hit 85 and took a good nap when we got back to Aunt Sarah's. That evening we had a yummy meal at The Hil restaurant in Serenbe. If you are ever in the area, you should check it out. Emmy and I shared a pizza and when Sarah asked her if she liked it she said "Um, yeah, it's kinda different". Hahaha. (In her defense, it was kinda different as there was no tomato sauce). She uses that phrase whenever something is not like what she's used to and in this context it was just so appropriate and hilarious.
Saturday morning after breakfast we packed up and headed to see Granddaddy and DeeDee! Aunt Beth and Uncle Griffin drove up as well so we had a good visit with the family. Rags got her teeth cleaned and we dropped her off at the clinic as soon as we got into town. Parenting note: one shouldn't let their child see the family pet being anesthetized in preparation for her teeth cleaning. When Missy went to put the tube in Rags' throat (which in my defense I didn't realize this all was taking place where we were hanging out) Emmy said in a shaky voice "where's Ragsie's tongue?" Oops. We moved to the waiting area to hang out until we went to lunch. Rest assured Rags' was up and happy a little while later, tongue right where it belongs.
After some yummy BBQ we headed to check into the hotel and let Miss Emmy take her nap. She was quite jazzed up and didn't want to settle down, but she finally did sleep in the big bed. Ahh, I love nap time. We had supper with the family at a cool place downtown that has a kids play area upstairs so Emmy got to play before we ate. Some goodies from the HoneyMoon Bakery rounded out the evening. Delish!
Sunday we went to church and Emmy sat with us and enjoyed seeing the bells play and listening to music for a few minutes before she went to the nursery. I was really worried because she gets quite nervous/shy around people she doesn't know and I feared tears when Charles took her to the nursery, but we'd gone by to meet the girls in the nursery for her age before the service and she saw there were babies. Plus, when she got back they were on the swings on the playground, so Charles said that she was happy to play. Yay! I'm not-so-secretly anxious about church hunting when we move and if we visit a few places having to go through this week after week until we find a new church home. She's been to Granddaddy and DeeDee's church of course before, but it had still been awhile so I'm glad she happily stayed in the nursery.
We ate lunch at a place we frequently go after church with Richard and Mary Louise that is located at the fairgrounds. The fair had just wrapped up and some of the animals that a trainer/animal resuce guy had brought for the fair were still there, so we walked over to see the camels, donkeys, primates (of some sort, not sure what), kangaroo, and I can't even remember what else! Here she is with Aunt Beth and Uncle Griff.
More photos in Picasa! I don't have Grandaddy's photos from Rome yet so I will add those later.
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| Checking out one of the many tanks of sea creatures you could touch. This was the closest she came to actually touching one: one finger in the water. |
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| First sip of coke ever. She didn't like it. |
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| Matching TOMS! |
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| See, camels! Pretty cool |
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| DeeDee said she thinks this monkey is Wilson (not sure what type of primate he actually is) and he was just hanging out while the workers cleaned up around the camels and donkey. |
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