Our Atlanta trip

So we left at 7:00 am Friday morning, heading towards Atlanta, and I was ready for the moans and complaints to begin right off. I was ready for don't touch me, Aunt Jenn he/she is on my side, are we there yet, blah blah, nope none of that. This is because Michael and Nicole slept pretty much the entire time, and for the first time I didn't. I don't know what it is, as soon as I get in a car I want to go to sleep, I usually sleep the entire time of a road trip, and the poor hubby drives the whole time, but this time I was awake and really enjoyed just talking to the hubs, and talking about how excited we are to be going to Atlanta. So after forever driving we made it to the hotel at 4, they are an hour ahead of us, got everything unloaded and started getting ready to go to the game, me and Philip found out what it's like to live with a pre-teen girl, 45 minutes later she is out of the shower, so we are late leaving, and by the time we started getting near the stadium, traffic was at a stand still, OMG, by the time we got to the stadium, parked, walked to the stadium, it was 7:15, game time was 7:35. Let the excitement begin. Well because I don't know much about how the stadium works in major league baseball games, I ordered our tickets on the brewers side, which meant we sat by brewers fans, boo!!!!. We encountered a group of drunk brewer fans, and they showed out, I wondered out loud to my husband who the designated driver was, because everyone in their group was intoxicated, he said probably the one who will be the least drunk, another OMG. Can you imagine. I can't see how they could afford to drink there, the beer was $7.00 a can, the only reason I know this, the vendor dude wanted to hang out in front of our row and scream it out. Well needless to say as Chipper Jones comes up to bat, which by the way is my husband's favorite baseball player, the vendor guy stopped right in front of the hubs and talked to the drunken brewers fans, hubs was not happy, so politely, ok maybe not so politely, told the brewers fans to stop talking to the vendor and for the vendor dude to move, chipper was his favorite player and this is why we came here, the drunken guy and the vendor both apologized, needless to say it didn't happen again. Well the Braves ended up getting beat 9-3, we left in the 8th inning. Saturday we all got up, got dressed, went and had breakfast, then headed to the aquarium, I am thinking oh this is great it's early, we will get in, look around, and have the rest of the day to do something else. WRONG!!!!! When we got there, there was a line out the wazoo, did I mention there was 7 family reunions in town that weekend, yeah lucky us, well I am guessing these families were all wanting to go to the aquarium. Well long story short, after 3 1/2 hours of standing in line we got our tickets, but still had to wait for another 2 hours before we could go in, so we ate lunch and hung out downtown. When we finally got to go inside the aquarium, all the time we had to wait, was wiped away, it was so worth it, the aquarium was awesome, with all the fish, alligators, beluga whales, sea lions, sea otters, and a whole bunch of other stuff, Michael and Nicole got to touch a sting ray, a baby shark, jelly fish, and some sponge like thing, which they thought was really cool. The aquarium was by far my favorite, and I think it was the kids too. Well let me say, after spending all that time downtown, we were more than ready for something real fun, so we went swimming at the hotel pool, and we had fun, the kids and philip played noodle war, it was philip against michael and nicole, and I have not heard or seen them laugh this much in a long time, I got so tickled. The rest is nothing excited, ate dinner, got packed to come home the next day, then went to bed, the next day we had to do the forever drive again. By the way, on this round I got the don't touch me, he/she is on my side, are we there yet, why is it taking so long, but it was worth it. Nothing is better than knowing I got to spend the weekend with my most favorite people, the hubs, Michael and Nicole, and to hear them tell us how much fun they had, and can we do it again next year, but this time stay a week. OMG!!!! I was glad to get home to my babies, and my bed, I missed it so much, when you are used to a california king bed and have to sleep in a double, it makes for some uncomfortable sleeping. Oh well! I am so glad to know we made memories for us and for the kids to remember for a life time.

Jennifer