Summer 2008 in Atlanta

I apologize for not updating the blog since we arrived on Wednesday. We really haven't done anything exciting to blog about.Wednesday we went to IHOP for dinner and then spent the rest of the evening just chilling out at Pops and Purson's house. Thursday it was kind of cool so I decided to take the kids to the park rather than the pool.

Yesterday, the kids and I went to the pool and stayed for about 2 hours. Trent and Ella had a great time and it was capped off when one of the neighbors brought their kayak over and started doing tricks in the deep end of the pool. Trent and Ella were eating lunch while they watched him and thought it was the neatest thing they had ever seen. We came back to the house, cleaned up, and took long naps after our afternoon at the pool. When Pops got home from work we loaded into the van and picked up Purson on our way to Joe's Crab shack. I had never eaten at a Joe's but it turned out to be quite fun...it's one of those places that every 15 minutes or so the waitresses start dancing. I took a short video of Ella doing the "Chicken Dance."

The fun part of our evening didn't come until after dinner when Pops went to start the van. Uh, oh! The van wouldn't start! To make a long story short we ended up not being able to jump it in the parking lot so we had to call our friend Darryl to come and get us. We all piled into his Escape (Abby and I sat in the back, criss-cross applesauce) and went to pick up Purson's car (we left it at the beauty parlor on the way to dinner) and then came home. By the time we arrived home it was time to go to bed.

Today Purson, Abby, Ella, and I went downtown to walk around IKEA...and we just happened to bring home 2 pans of their DELICIOUS cinnamon rolls. We also rolled by the mall to do some of Abby's exchanging that she needed to do. Pops and Trent stayed close to the house. They began with a quick trip to Wal-Mart to pick up some oil, ate lunch at a Chinese restaurant, came home and changed the oil in Abby's car, and then began watching the first episode of Star Wars. We ate spaghetti for dinner and Trent and Pops went back to watching Star Wars.

Pops has suggested that maybe we need to make a Bruster's run later on this evening. We will have to see about that. :-)

So that's what has been happening so far. As I said in the beginning...nothing really interesting to blog about. Maybe we'll have something more exciting to write about in the next week.