A DISmeet here..a DISmeet there..Our August Southern Tour- Final Posts - #544!

[mommy2mrb]

Lisa, just a quick fly-by before we leave tomorrow morning. I love the wedding album...it is beautiful.

thank you Kathy! saw you made it onto the ME! now off the computer, see your green light is on....go and enjoy your trip and give Mark a hope he can relax and enjoy too!

 

[blessedmom4]

Sitting on hold (story of my life) before I head back out and I am TRYING to catch up on a few things...and am mortified I haven't yet commented on your TR fun (yes, I saw the pics but it is fun to see them OFF the camera) and the GORGEOUS album you did for your anniversary! Both that date and Jim's BD are coming up...are you planning on doing another remembrance of his birthday for those who want to donate to the orphanage? Will you have a special link? Please let me know. Miss you friend. Wish you could come to Florida for THIS trip with us. SO proud of all Megan is doing, glad to hear the jazz choir will work with her schedule if enough try out.

 

[mommy2mrb]

Sitting on hold (story of my life) before I head back out and I am TRYING to catch up on a few things...and am mortified I haven't yet commented on your TR fun (yes, I saw the pics but it is fun to see them OFF the camera) and the GORGEOUS album you did for your anniversary! Both that date and Jim's BD are coming up...are you planning on doing another remembrance of his birthday for those who want to donate to the orphanage? Will you have a special link? Please let me know. Miss you friend. Wish you could come to Florida for THIS trip with us. SO proud of all Megan is doing, glad to hear the jazz choir will work with her schedule if enough try out.

thanks for stopping by...happy to give you something to look at while you are on hold
yes I will be doing the same thing this year for Jim's birthday....same as last year, I'm not allowed to post a "link" since its not an approved DIS website, so I will just ask anyone who is interested in making a donation to PM me, I will have it going for the month of October!
I miss you too and wish we could join in on the fun too, but you all need your time as a family! so will just wait to hear all about it when you get home!
proud of my girl too! still waiting for the other auditions to get done!

 

[blessedmom4]

Dear Lisa, Thank you for calling me today! I AM still here and I know there are lots still here reading, that are just not posting. DEFINITELY send me the link for Jim's birthday donation, it is such a worthy cause and very dear to your heart...and you are dear to mine, so it is important to me. I wil miss you!

 

[mommy2mrb]

Dear Lisa, Thank you for calling me today! I AM still here and I know there are lots still here reading, that are just not posting. DEFINITELY send me the link for Jim's birthday donation, it is such a worthy cause and very dear to your heart...and you are dear to mine, so it is important to me. I wil miss you!

I'm happy I caught you and that we had a few minutes, hope I didn't make you late!
I am planning on getting some updates done tomorrow, so you'll have some catching up to do when you get home!
will definately be sharing the link with you and to anyone else who would like to help out with the orphanage fundraiser in my Jimmy's memory I can't post it here, but will be happy to PM anyone the info!
thank you sweetie, you are very dear to mine too! I will miss you too, but you need this next week of fun, relaxation and fun, so just do that and I'll "see" you when you get home! safe travels tomorrow


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Megan got some exciting news tonight....she made the Jazz Choir at school, she is one happy girl , so proud of my girl for trying out and being dedicated to the 2 a week early rehearsals before school starts!

 

[DMGeurts]

I just wanted to stop by and say Hi!

D~

 

[mommy2mrb]

Wednesday continued------

we got to our hotel in downtown Atlanta with no issues and woo-hoo our room was ready! got all settled in and decided to head out to the World of Coca-Cola....our hotel was about a 6 block walk down to the Olympic Park area.

this is walking through the park

the lobby area

a lot of cool pieces from the history of Coke

the "vault area"

more in next post.....

 

[mommy2mrb]

some great artwork

the Olympic Torches

this is a "mascot" can't remember his name, but they had a short film about it

we enjoy our tour, did some taste testing....think Club Cool, but much bigger, think they had 7 or 8 different regions of the world with samples, then we went through the gift shop, Megan got a t-shirt and I picked up some coke stickers for my scrapbooking.

then head over to a small outdoor burger place for a late lunch and had burgers and Coke Icee's which was needed since the humidity had gotten much higher.

after lunch we headed back to the hotel to rest, decided to stay in that night for dinner, so ordered from the adjacent restaurant and ate in our room

did get a pretty sunset

next up Thursday!

 

[blessedmom4]

Just wanted to stop by and CONGRATULATE MEGAN on making Jazz choir! Way to go sweetie!!!

LOVE the latest update, I will look forward to more!

"See" you soon!!!

 

[mommy2mrb]

Thursday ----

today we slept in and planned on visiting the Atlanta History Center and then over to visit dear friends we had met in Thousand Oaks CA and hadn't seen since 2007 when they moved to Atlanta

it was great to see some of historic Atlanta

they also had a whole wing of Olympic items and areas to try different events

my Champion ...Megan's wearing the t-shirt she got at coke

there was also a beautiful garden area and some Historic houses

we had a light lunch about 230 at the Swan Coach House Restaurant...but didnt take any photos...it was very Victorian looking in the decor with lots of big bold flowery wall paper!


as we were eating lunch my friend texted and had to push back our plans, since her oldest DD had a last minute change in a dental appt....the only bummer about that was the History Center was about 2 blocks away from their house....so we headed back to the hotel (was only about 4 miles away) and hung out for awhile.

we got back to our friends about 430 and had a wonderful visit with them....backstory - Megan and their third DD Amanda took ballet together and we've stayed great friends! the other girls are Emily, Charlotte and Madeline...their dad Alan was out of town....Tracy and I had a lot of fun getting caught up and making dinner together while Megan, Amanda and Madeline went swimming

all the girls...including Choel the pup

was a wonderful we all just picked up where we left off and had a great night together....we didnt' leave until almost 11 that night, got back to hotel and crashed!


next update....the worlds largest aquarium!!!

 

[mommy2mrb]

I just wanted to stop by and say Hi!

D~

D, thanks for stopping by...

Just wanted to stop by and CONGRATULATE MEGAN on making Jazz choir! Way to go sweetie!!!

LOVE the latest update, I will look forward to more!

"See" you soon!!!

Thanks Judy, will pass them along to Megan! oops, you missed the 2nd day, you;ll have to wait to see it when you get back!

safe travels and sending lots of

 

[addictedtonostalgia]

I finished scrapbooking our wedding day .... felt with our 15th anniversary coming up I really wanted to do something special with our photos...I will also be taking Megan up to the Salish Lodge for the first time that weekend to celebrate, it will be bittersweet, but know my Jim will be with us.


click on the photo to start the slideshow

Beautiful.

Megan got some exciting news tonight....she made the Jazz Choir at school, she is one happy girl , so proud of my girl for trying out and being dedicated to the 2 a week early rehearsals before school starts!

Congratulations Megan! What a talented young lady. I love looking at all your pictures of Atlanta, I did a lot of those things when I was younger (we were at the '96 Olympics) so it's neat to kind of remember things. I can't wait to see the aquarium pictures, I went a couple of years back with my younger cousins in Atlanta, it is an awesome aquarium!

 

[babynala]

You got some great pictures of your days in Atlanta. Casey LOVES the World of Coke and tries to make everyone go there when they visit us. What a nice evening with your friends. Sounds like a great way to catch up. I guess Megan has a long list of potential pen pals, she has friends all over the country.

Congrats to Megan on making Jazz choir. She is going to be a busy girl this year.

 

[lovethattink]

Great pictures of Atlanta! Looks like a fun time!

 

[mommy2mrb]

Beautiful.



Congratulations Megan! What a talented young lady. I love looking at all your pictures of Atlanta, I did a lot of those things when I was younger (we were at the '96 Olympics) so it's neat to kind of remember things. I can't wait to see the aquarium pictures, I went a couple of years back with my younger cousins in Atlanta, it is an awesome aquarium!

thanks Meredith! Megan is loving the new Jazz choir!!
cool you got to go to the Olympics...aquarium photos are next!

You got some great pictures of your days in Atlanta. Casey LOVES the World of Coke and tries to make everyone go there when they visit us. What a nice evening with your friends. Sounds like a great way to catch up. I guess Megan has a long list of potential pen pals, she has friends all over the country.

Congrats to Megan on making Jazz choir. She is going to be a busy girl this year.

thanks Liz! WofC was fun, cute Casey wants to take visitors there! its so nice to catch up with great friends! she does have friends in many states.
thanks I'll pass it on to her! yes she is and so am I since I'm her ride

Great pictures of Atlanta! Looks like a fun time!

thanks Tink! fun and HOT!

 

[mommy2mrb]

FRIDAY -----

we slept in a bit after our late night, had a bite to eat and headed out to the aquarium! (was just across the courtyard from World of Coke)

we really just wandered around enjoying the many different areas of the aquarium...will just let the photos tell the story...

saw the film - Deepo (a bit of a rip off from Nemo) but cute...no photos of the film, but the ad is cute!

more in next post

 

[lovethattink]

Great pics! Your camera took very good pictures through the glass of the aquariums!!

 

[mommy2mrb]

had fun watching these guys...was cool to get into their habitat

and some of my favorites

we had tickets for the later show to see the dolphins so had some lunch , Megan had a cheeseburger...I can't remember what I had though

after lunch we headed up to see the show, unfortunately no photos allowed...the dolphins were amazing!!

head over to check out the gift shop, but didn't see anything we HAD to have so took a couple more photos

and decided to head back to the hotel....I had some laundry to get done for the next part of our trip. decided to stay in the rest of the day and had dinner again downstairs, it had just gotten very humid for us and didn't feel like going out.



Saturday -----------------

had a lazy morning, ate breakfast and then we headed out to visit the "High Art Museum" but got there a bit to early didn't check Saturday opening times) so found a Barnes & Nobel to hang out in for a bit....we enjoyed the museum , sorry no photos though....was a good mix of masters, contemporary, sculptures, great area of local photos too! we had a light lunch before we headed out to visit some other friends for the night and have dinner.

Jim and I had worked with Melanie up in Shawnee on the Delaware back in 1996 and had stayed in touch...we did meet up once in Atlanta when Megan was a couple months old and she visited us in Charlotte in 2003...she married Dave about 7 years ago and they have two adorable little girls Caroline is almost 4 and Sara is 19 months! Megan had a blast playing with them while Mel and I chatted

we had an early night since our flight to Charleston was at 8am the next morning! got back to the hotel, packed up all that I could and we got to bed by 9pm.


up next Charleston!!!

 

[mommy2mrb]

Great pics! Your camera took very good pictures through the glass of the aquariums!!

thanks! had to experiment on some, but mostly was due to not using my flash!

 

[DMGeurts]

I am so far behind!

I loved the Atlanta pictures - the Coke museum looks really cool.

My favorite pictures are the ones of you and Megan sticking your heads up in the penguin habitat - how cute is that? Love it!

D~