My brain is officially mush! I just returned from five entire days without work. I was out last Wednesday for a teaching workshop and then Thursday and Friday for Brad's test in Atlanta. When you include the two weekend days, I have been doing nothing for far too long... but, boy, has it been nice!
We realized early last week that we needed to take our dogs to Tupelo before heading out of town. You mean they can't fend for themselves for five days? Oops! The dogs were the one thing we were forgetting to pack. (We are going to be such great parents!) Anyway, we headed to Tupelo Wednesday after work to take the "babies" to their grandparent's--Brad's mom and dad. We headed over to Atlanta Thursday afternoon and did some last minute test prep before Brad's big test on Friday.
I knew Brad's test would take eight hours, but I was looking forward to a little quality time with the TV. We don't have cable, so places with channel choices are a huge treat for me. Well, apparently cable was not a top priority for our hotel, and I spent most of my day watching "Hogan Knows Best." Remember Hulk Hogan, the wrestler? I am now very acquainted with him, his wife, his two kids, and all seven of his dogs. Oh well, it was Hogan or the weather channel, and Hogan was much more entertaining! :)
Saturday we headed to downtown Atlanta and enjoyed the scenery-- nothing too exciting. We ate at a great little Jamaican restaurant, and Brad was brave enough to try curried goat. It was surprisingly good! We headed back to Tupelo shortly after and got back to our "babies."
Brad's sister came into town, so we had all four kids and five dogs. It was crazy as usual. We started telling Brad's dad all these stories of things that had happened on family trips from years back. He's high strung, so we always keep the little things from him for his own well being. By the end of the night of stories, we were laughing so hard that we were crying, and poor Mr. Ronnie was scared to ever take another vacation with all of us!
I guess that's all the down time I get for now. It's back to work with all my little chick-a-dees at school. Have a great week, everyone!
Brad and me in downtown Atlanta
Aren't the Oktoberfest hats the funniest? Although we didn'tparticipate in all the festivities,
I couldn't resist trying on the little hat!
5 comments:
Hmmmm... in Atlanta with nothing to do. Why not go visit Kim's class!! What, you wanted to get away from kids while you could?
And the dogs... THAT was funny. =)
Goat huh!? I've had some of that too, but mine still had the hair on it. Nothing like authentic Jamaican food!!
sounds like fun. we missed you, but i'm glad you had such a great weekend. but next time, you better be there! :)
I missed seeing you this weekend I'm with Chris next year you'll be there right?:) I love the picture of your Octoberfest hat! Everytime I see pictures of the Coke place I think about our formal Junior year - ahh good times.
I think I'm going to use a gender neutral name like 'Pat' or 'Taylor' so I fit in better with the other bloggers.
Anyway, I was going to say I would have been happy to housesit, but then I read the part about you not having cable (although if you have a decent internet connection, we may have a deal -- ask Brad). Hogan Knows Best is the next OC..and his daughter has a new video out; so, you're really just preparing yourself to be knowledgable re: your students' cultural world. And Atlanta is horrid when you get stuck on the loop during rush hour.
I'm envious of your curried goat -- mine was only stewed with onions in Greece :) (and they didn't even let me kill it myself)
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