Road trip

Rick and I decided to take a mini vacation, just the two of us. He's been needing some down time and let's face it. going on vacation with a 1 yr old and 3 yr old, isn't exactly a vacation. So we needed to pick some place close to Rick's parents since that was who was going to keep them while we were gone. So we picked Atlanta because I told Rick that I had never been there before.

So Wednesday we headed to Cleveland and stayed the night with Rick's parents. Then got up the next morning and headed to Atlanta. On the way there we stopped at furniture stores in Dalton, as we are in the market for bedroom furniture. We finally made it to Atlanta and checked into our room. It was awesome. The Hyatt was about two years old and was very modern. Rick picked the hotel room and I have to say he did a good job.

We didn't want to make a lot of plans. Just kinda wanted to hang out. Good thing because the folks in Atlanta said that's the most rain they've seen in years that week. Go figure. We did make it down to the Varsity. The Varsity is a local restaurant right next to Georgia tech that is known for its chili cheese dogs. I'm not a big fan of chili cheese dogs so I had a burger. It was a burger. Nothing to write home about. But the orange icy with vanilla ice cream, who created that? Genius. Yummo.

Next we went to Ikea and filled our carts yet again

and spent under $100. Love that store.

Later that night we went to dinner at Maggiano's.

Yes, Nashville has one but we never go to West

Nashville and I have always wanted to go. Then

we went to a movie and say I Love You Man. That is up on my top 10 funniest movies ever.

On Saturday we took a tour of the Coke Museum. It was nice, but I have to say that you have to really like Coca Cola to go there. Remember when they changed the formula to coca cola and called it Coke. That lasted 72 days before people were protesting about it. At the end of the tour we got to sample 64 different drinks from around the world. Sounded fun but it made me very sick from drinking too much sugar. I have to say, I like just good old plain coca cola.

Later that night we met up with one of my BFFs from college, Kristie Burton (now Cintron). We went to The Cheesecake Factory and had a great time catching up with our friends. That's when I remembered, Oh yeah, I have been to Atlanta when Dave and Kristie got married so this would be my second trip to Atlanta. We basically talked about our kids the whole time and followed up that conversation in the parking lot by comparing our mini vans. Oh yes we did!

After that we met up with Rick's friend from Cleveland, Shawna, and her husband. It was great for Rick catching up with a friend that he has had since middle school. We stayed out later than we probably have in YEARS. I think we got home at 2:00. That's really late for us.

We got up Sunday morning and headed back to Cleveland to pick up our little munchkins, whom we missed so much. We realized that kids really do put stress on a marriage. Without them for 3 days we were so thoughtful and kind to each other. Where do you want to go eat honey, anywhere you want baby. On the way back home we talked about how we need to get better about working as a team when it comes to the kids. We are starting a new bible study called Growing Kids God's Way and we're hoping that will assist us on getting us on the same page. The other lesson we took from our trip is that we need more alone time together and we are going to try to make this a yearly thing.