Our Trip to Atlanta and More

Last week, we journeyed to Atlanta for some new and exciting experiences. We traveled with our friends over at Happy Home and their 5 month old.

Rayray received two tickets to Celtic Woman at the Fox for her 13th birthday, so we decided to make a little vacation out of it. We all decided to go since I don't drive in large, scary metro cities like Atlanta. NO, I'm not joking....even though I lived there for two years.

We stayed in the Georgian Terrace across Peachtree Street from The Fox Theatre. It is a gorgeous, 100 year old hotel. The Gone With the Wind movie premiere party was held here!! And when it first opened, it was THE place to see and be seen. We gazed into the ballroom windows and let our imaginations run wild.

Here is Appledoodle posing on gorgeous marble spiral stairs in the Terrace.

Beautiful Georgian Terrace


The three heads waaaay up there belong to Hero and kids...
long way up...long way down.


We ate dinner here before the concert.
We got there at the perfect time,
sitting down at a table immediately.
Our food came fast,
was delicious,
and our waiter was wonderful,
and the lobby was slap full of people
when we left!


We had just enough time between
dinner and the concert to
primp a little and take some pictures.




Here is the beautiful Fox Theatre,
as viewed from The Georgian Terrace.

Even the top of The Fox is beautiful....

The inside is like a beautiful Turkish castle

or an opulent mosque.

It's like you're in a courtyard and

the night sky with stars and moving clouds

is above you.

It's absolutely gorgeous.

It was the perfect setting for

Celtic Woman.

I did not get any pictures of

the girls singing bc cameras were

restricted. Banned.

If you've never heard of

Celtic Woman,

check out their site.

We were amazed and

I was moved to tears on several numbers.

Rayray absolutely loved every minute of it.

So, this is a pic I took of the top of the stage area,

just before I got yelled at for taking pictures.

Nope, not kidding. Yelled at me!
And the concert hadn't even started.

These are our friends and Rayray

on the roof of the Terrace after the show.

A bit windy, Rayray?

The night was one we won't soon forget.

The Fox Theatre was so spectacular.

The Celtic Woman show was amazing.

And we loved being with our friends!

And Hero did a fantastic job babysitting

our two youngest and the 5 month old angel, too!

Ah, Ikea. I miss you already.

Since we were downtown,

I convinced Hero that taking me to Ikea

the next morning was a great idea

bc an Atlanta friend said breakfast was CHEAP.

And everybody needs to eat!

It cost only $14.00 to feed bkfst to all 5 of us...

grits, eggs, sausage, bacon, cinnamon rolls, pancakes, juice and coffee!

We were at Ikea for FOUR HOURS.

It was just wonderfully ridiculous!!!!!!

We were all bone tired after all of that,

but it was quite an experience!

We then headed to the mountains for a few days,

Of course, it was dreary and rainy the entire time,

but we still had fun. Our kids are pretty much happy wherever,

which makes things so easy.

This? This is my older brother,

whose natural habitat is the mountainous region.

I have no comment about this photo

except you should feel very sorry for

me and my childhood.

We arrived home late Saturday night

to find that some sort of tornadic non-confirmed cell

passed over our neighborhood narrowly missing our pine trees.

We are thankful.

The end.