Painting

So Saturday night Tom and I were sitting in our living room, hanging up Christmas lights, and something just didn't look right. We decided we had too much "white" in our apartment. I suggested the idea of painting one wall and having an "accent wall".......half joking/half serious. The more we thought about it.......the more we liked the idea. So Sunday morning (after my 17 mile run!) we went to Lowe's, got some paint, and came home to paint our accent wall :) We needed the color to be something dark and bold to get the full effect of the accent wall, and we have a lot of tan and brown in our living room so we opted for dark brown. We LOVE it! I think it turned out so well because we painted the wall that has our doors to our balcony on it, so the accent wall is accented nicely by the white doors :) There are a few pics below.

Me painting

The finished product :)

So yeah I ran 17 miles on Sunday! It was hard, but not too bad. My legs hurt more than anything else. I think that has something to do with the fact that my current running shoes have over 400 miles on them since April....TIME FOR NEW SHOES! My team in training coach was actually surprised that I haven't injured myself yet running in my shoes because they were so worn down on the inside. So I have new shoes now so hopefully I'll be as good as new on my 15 mile run this weekend. I've also almost reached my fundraising goal!! Thanks to EVERYONE who has donated! I think I have like 20 more dollars to raise to meet my goal ($2800). Unfortunately, I have one more person that I would like to run in memory/honor of. Tom's nephew Michael's good friend, Nick, just passed away from lymphoma. I think he was only 20 or 21. Hopefully he passed peacefully and painlessly. Please keep his family and friends in your thoughts and prayers.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Unfortunately, Tom and I were not able to make it home for Thanksgiving this year so we had our own little Thanksgiving....just the two of us. We even cooked a turkey....and it turned out yummy!!! Everything actually turned out really well except this one dish that I tried to make....it kind of tried to explode (ok, not explode, boil over) in the oven but it still tasted good :) And we went for a nice run in the morning too so we didn't feel guilty about stuffing ourselves. I tried to trick Tom into running 6 miles....but he kind of figured it out.

Today we got up at 4:45 to hit the Black Friday specials (If you don't know me too well, I'm kinda obsessed with finding really really good deals on things)....like for example.....my 200GB Internal Hard Drive that I got today for only TWENTY DOLLARS!!!!!!!!!! My computer won't know what hit it! (which I'm kinda worried about....hopefully it will still function after I install it). Ok, enough of that :) Tom came with me this morning but slept in the car while I faced the masses and waited in line FOREVER! But well worth it. Oh yeah, did I mention the weather was beautiful yesterday and today? Mid 60's yesterday and low 70's today! Hopefully it will be like that on Sunday morning for my 17 mile run! Here are some pics of us on Thanksgiving....they're not the best quality b/c they were taken with my phone camera and our disposable.....but we shouldn't be having that problem anymore after today's Black Friday sales O:)

Tom carving the turkey

Tom is hungry!

And so am I!!

Tom and I before Thanksgiving Dinner!

Weekly ramblings

I can't believe Penn State's football season is over! Except for their New Year's Day bowl game in Orlando, of course :) Too bad Tom and I don't have a lot of money and I don't have a lot of paid-time off at work or we would go to the PSU game in Orlando Jan 1 and stay there for the week for my marathon on Jan 7! Oh well. Next year hopefully we'll go to a BCS game and then we'll go to that :)

I ran 15 miles yesterday with Team in Training! I actually ran the last 2 miles by myself because yesterday I happened to be the only one there training for Disney (everyone else was training for Mercedes which is a month later) so they were only doing 13 and our Team in Training coach ran an ultra-marathon (40 miles!) on Saturday so he only did 13. And I think he was ready to stop after 7 but the rest of us were afraid we were going to get lost on the 13 mile course because I had only done it twice and everyone else had only done it once. Anyways, 15 miles was a pretty big accomplishment...but we do 17 next week!!

So we don't have a dog yet ;) IF we get one it probably won't be until the spring or summer anyways. We'll see. The chinchillas are doing well. I think they're getting fat. We let them out to play last night...we let them run around in the one bathroom and close the door so they can't get out. They like to think that they are participating in the X games or something because they always like side-jump off of the walls and stuff. It's cute. They also like to hide in things that we put in their cage....Tom will use cardboard and make a little house for them. Here's a pic of Chimu who decided he wanted a window in their house so he chewed through the cardboard. They are so cute but such brats sometimes :)

Happy Anniversary to us :)

Yesterday was our Five Year Anniversary from when we started dating! Unfortunately, we didn't do anything to celebrate because I had a casting lab at work until 6 and then Tom had a dodgeball game at 7:15 and I had to train as well. But I think we're going to go out to dinner tonight :) I'm not sure how much longer we'll celebrate our dating anniversary now that we are married but we thought 5 years was special.

So we went to the Gala last Friday night and had a fabulous time! They had all these decorated christmas trees up in the lobby area that people could buy...they were pretty. Guess what? I bid on something at the silent auction! And guess what?! I won!! :) Haha, it was this really cute little doggy water and food bowl that was in the shape of a dog (painted black and white-just like a border collie!) and said "Merry Christmas" on it. I bid something really low...and really I just bid on it just for the heck of it. After dinner, we went back to the silent auction before it closed and only one more person had bid on it and only $5 more than my bid. So with 8 seconds before the auction closed I made an impulse bid (that was only $10 more than my original low bid) and I won! Here's the best part....after winning I realized that I had won more than just the really nice food & water dish....I won a certificate for a free annual checkup for a dog and free vaccinations for 1 year! Now, some of you may be saying "But Anne and Tom don't even have a dog." Well, you're right.....but I really really really really want to get a border collie and now we can take it to the vet for free! Plus on the SPCA website the feature dog is a border collie....coincidence? Plus my brother just got a really cute border collie from his local animal shelter too! Since our certificate to the vet is good for a year, we may wait until the spring or summer to consider getting one. We'll see :) Oh yeah, here's another best part about my silent auction bid. When you went to pay and pick up what you won, it gave you the retail value of the item....My bid was 80% off the suggested retail value!!!!

Ok, so that was just all the news about the silent auction. After dinner there was a live auction as well. Ok, let me back up...the whole reason we got to go to this Gala was because The Lakeshore Foundation buys a table every year and donates some of the tickets to the PT/OT department at Children's. The Lakeshore Foundation is this really amazing place that is a paralympic training site as well as a recreational facility for children and adults with physical disabilities (and it happens to literally be right down the road from our apartment). Anyways, sitting at our table were two people from Lakeshore...one of them one of the administrative directors and the other a paralympic world champion in water sports! He actually owns his own non-profit business, Adaptive Aquatics, and teaches kids with physical disabilities how to water ski and stuff. Amazing. Anyways one of the prizes up for bid in the live auction was a one-week trip to some resort in Colorado for 7 people. Rhonda ended up bidding on and winning this trip! It was crazy....it went for like $3600!! And when she was bidding she kept looking at us asking if we "were in" or if we "want to go." And we are all sitting there thinking "Um, does she want us to go in financially or is she just being nice and inviting us along?!" Haha. I think she was just inviting us, but not seriously. We'll see....my boss that was there with us has her email address. We took pictures with my new digital camera (aka disposable camera from walmart) so as soon as I get them developed I'll post them. I'll leave you with a pic of Haleigh....my brother's new border collie :)

Gala

I'm such a bad blogger...no posts in over a week! People are going to stop reading because I don't update enough (or at least that's what Tom says ;).....j/k). Anyways, I've been keeping really busy, work, run, eat, sleep, sometimes run, work, eat sleep.......but my days have been consisting of some variant of that schedule. We ran 11 miles last week for our long run....we do 13 again this week. I also think that I'm going to run the Mercedes Half Marathon here in Birmingham. My full marathon will be in Disney on Jan. 7 and the Mercedes isn't until Feb. 17 or something like that. It'll give me an excuse to keep running but I'll have enough recovery time in between the two events. Plus I know a lot of people who are running the half so it should be pretty fun :)

And now for more exciting news. Every year Children's Hospital has this really fancy Gala that they put on and each year the Gala benefits something different with the money that is raised. There is dinner, a live band, a silent auction (I've never been anywhere with a silent auction before!). This year it benefits surgery at Children's I think. Anyways here is the best part. Tickets sell for $125 PER PERSON but Tom and I get to go FOR FREE :D One of the PT's husband's company buys enough tickets for a table every year and then donates the tickets to the PT/OT department. On Tuesday she still had 3 extra tickets so Tom and I get to go! It's Friday night at The Sheraton downtown. We can't wait! Maybe I'll bid $5 on something at the silent auction just to say I bid on something at a silent auction! (Apparently last year a dinner for 10 made by a chef at your house went for $1800.....some doctor's wife bid on it and won).

Unfortunately, my camera broke so I'm not sure if we will have pictures of the event. Seeing as how I'm photo-obsessed I'll probably buy a disposable before we go. Maybe Santa will bring me a new camera for Christmas......or Black Friday ;)

Go State....Beat The Owls!

P.S./Head's up: Next year PSU plays Temple IN Philly. We are definitely going up for the game and making a weekend out of it.....two of our favorite things in the world in one place....Penn State and Philly :) Now if only the Eagles play at home that Sunday...........

Happy Halloween!

The Matrix

Roller Derby Girl and.....Girl

Happy Halloween everyone! My first Halloween down south! How exciting (well, technically my 2nd since I was down here visiting Tom last Halloween). Anyways the Halloween festivities have started and will continue through the weekend! Working in a children's hospital on Halloween is like the best way to spend the day. There are A TON of activities set up for the kids (including trick-or-treating!) and they really all enjoy themselves. Plus all the little ones are dressed up in those little full body costumes like dragons or lions or turtles and they are so cute!

Tom and I are going to a Halloween party tonight and are dressing up like Neo and Trinity from The Matrix. I'll post pictures as soon as I get them up (which reminds me, Kansas pics are now up http://community.webshots.com/user/awesomeanne Page 3, "Kansas and Joe & Laura's Wedding). And we're having a "Post-Halloween" Halloween Party on Friday night. I'm going to be a roller derby girl and Tom's going to be a girl. Should be a good time.

My running has been going pretty well. I guess it's decided that I'm going to do the full marathon because I ran a half-marathon (we ran 13 miles) on this past Sunday! I didn't know if I was going to finish or not around mile 6-7, but I felt great when I finished! We drop back to 11 miles this weekend so that will be nice to look forward to!

Hope everyone has a great Halloween!

We're not in Kansas anymore!

Actually....we are. Our flight was delayed 3 hours (grrr!) so I'm blogging live from the KCI airport. Tom's best friend from home (Joe-who now lives in Kansas) got married this weekend and Tom was in the wedding. We had an absolute blast. We all stayed at this ranch (Circle S...highly recommend if you're ever in Kansas!). Anyways it was like a giant farmhouse with probably about 10-12 rooms and the wedding party, Joe & Laura, and their immediate families all stayed there. The guy that owned it was like a real cowboy too. And they cooked all of our meals there and there was an awesome hot tub in the back of the house. It was also in the middle of nowhere with no tv's and no one got cell phone reception (Imagine us trying to find out the score to the PSU game on Saturday!) Ohh yeah and they had a herd of buffalo! Apparently there was a peacock too but we didn't see him. The wedding itself was beautiful (even though it POURED rain the whole day) and the reception was a blast. The whole weekend was just amazing. The travel was (is) a pain in the butt but well worth it!

Since I missed my team run this weekend, I had to run when we got out to Kansas on Friday. I did 10 miles! Ok, also, I always hear how flat Kansas is and in my head pictured absolutely no hills, so I was pretty mad when I decided to run through Kansas University only to discover that it was ON A GIANT HILL and I almost died twice trying to run up those stupid hills! Haha, enough complaining. The university was actually really pretty and the town of Lawrence seemed pretty cool too.

As always I took a ton of pictures and I will post them on my webshots as soon as Tom and I get home and unpack and settle in(which at this point I'm not even sure we'll get home today!)

Whirlwind travel!

So Penn State on Saturday was an absolute blast (would have been better if we won, but considering the facts that 1) we were down to our 3rd string quarterback, 2) We held michigan to 17 points when they're averaging 30+, and 3) we only lost by a touchdown, not too shabby).

Saturday was my cousin Andrew's 21st birthday, so we started off downtown at a few bars before we headed up to tailgate. Let me just tell you that having a bloody mary on the trip up to PSU from my parents house and 3 beers without eating breakfast isn't such a good idea! Happy Birthday Andrew! Then we went up to tailgate and were able to see a lot of our friends that we haven't seen since the wedding...so that was really fun to see everyone and hang out before the game.

The traveling on the other hand was absolutely horrible. Never again will we drive 3 hours to Nashville, fly to Philadelphia, & drive 3 hours to Lewisburg....no matter how cheap the flights are out of Nashville. Waaay too much of a hassle! Anyways here are a few pics from the game! This weekend Tom's best friend Joe is getting married! Tom's in the wedding so it should be a good time! Hope everyone has a great week and weekend!

The Girls!

Game

Getting all bundled up for the game!

Slacker

Hi everyone. Sorry I haven't blogged in so long!!! Running and fundraising is like having a second full time job! My running has been going pretty well. 9 miles on Sunday! That was pretty exciting for me. Fundraising is going ok too...although I'm a little concerned about reaching my goal of $4000....but there is still some time left. The Jim 'N Nick's fundraiser went pretty well I think. I still don't know how much money they are going to donate (I tried calling the manager on Monday, he didn't have the totals then, I didn't want to seem pushy so I didn't call him back until Wednesday...he wasn't at the office). Hopefully I'll know by tomorrow! I raised $120 with just the raffle!


So, I have to blog about this one Sonic commercial that is on down here. If you don't have Sonic near you, you probably haven't seen it....Sonic is like a fast-food restaurant that is famous for their desserts/milkshakes. So anyways, there is this guy and girl in a car and they are drinking some milkshake and talking about how good it is and the conversation goes as follows:
guy: "I think I'm going to have to blog about this so all of my loyal readers can know about it!" girl: "all of your loyal readers? So you mean like, your mom?"
guy: "My mom's neighbor reads my blog too"
girl: "Score! Your mom's neighbor!"

Haha, I guess that doesn't really do it justice...you kinda have to see it. But it's pretty funny and it reminds me of me and my blogging.


We're going back up to PA this weekend for the PSU-Michigan game. We were able to get an unbelievable deal on flights out of nashville, and we have tickets to the game, so we couldn't turn it down! Plus it's PSU vs. Michigan and it's a NIGHT GAME :D If you're gonna be up there, let me know! Can't wait to be back in Happy Valley!

Fundraiser

Hi everyone. In order to raise more money for Team in Training/Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, I decided to see if a local bar/restaurant would donate a portion of their proceeds from Happy Hour one night to LLS. So Jim 'N Nick's, a really yummy bar-b-q restaurant/bar down here agreed to help me out. I have been soooo busy trying to promote this event and advertise for it. I could never do this full time! It is stressing me out like crazy. I'm sure it will be fine, but I'm just worried that no one will show! One of the radio stations agreed to help me out, and my Team in Training coach sent an email out to everyone on his list-serv......so I feel like at least 500 people have to know about this by now.....I'm just praying that enough will show so Jim 'N Nicks will generously donate a big portion of their proceeds to LLS!
I'm also holding a raffle at the happy hour.....so far I have a $45 gift card to Outback Steakhouse, a $20 gift card to Locos Restaurant & Bar, a $15 gift card to McAlister's, some gift cards to Planet Smoothie, & 5 free cone certificates to Ben & Jerry's. I'm only going to sell the raffle tickets for $1 each so hopefully people will buy a lot! So if you randomly happen to know anyone in Birmingham, send them to Jim 'N Nick's in Five Points this friday from 4-7!
Anyways keep your fingers crossed for me that this goes well! I'll keep you posted and let you know how the happy hour goes!

Twice in one week!

Look at me! I'm blogging twice in the same week! This week has been going pretty well....pretty quick which is good. We're down 2 people at work and amazingly it hasn't been ridiculously busy so that has been awesome. (fingers crossed!). I've actually been hanging out with a couple of people from work and meeting new people, so that's been nice. One of the girls I actually used to work with in Philadelphia is now in Birmingham and is going to start working weekends at Children's Hospital....that's kinda random. And yesterday I went to happy hour with an OT that I work with and we went to this really super cute area of Birmingham that I never knew existed! I was so excited! It reminded me of Philadelphia. There were a bunch of cute little restaurants and bars and a lot of outside seating. Which is perfect for this time of year because it's finally started to cool off (again) and it's perfect weather to just sit outside and enjoy some drinks and food. So we're definitely going to have to explore that area a little more.

I've also been making an effort to cook more (if you don't know me too well, the extent of my cooking is hamburger helper or Lipton pasta sides with some chicken). I made baked ziti the other night and it was really yummy. I'm also big on quick and easy recipes that makes enough food for us to have leftovers for lunch. I found this really good sounding broccoli and cheese (and ham) casserole that I'm going to try to make tonight. I also organized all of my recipes last weekend. All of the ones that people gave us for the shower and also some random ones that I had written on scraps of paper. So if you have any super easy yummy casserole recipes, send them my way (alb245@yahoo.com) :)

This weekend should be pretty low key for us....which will be nice. We really need to clean....do some fall cleaning. I think we're going to make Jackie's pepperoni dip again for our tailgate snack for the PSU game on Saturday. It was so good and we can't stop thinking about it! Ok this blog is getting long, you probably stopped reading somewhere in the middle of the second paragraph.

Happy Birthday to all of the late September birthday kids......John, Carrie, Dad, Kathleen, & Dorothy....and anyone else I forgot!

Oops!

Eeeek! Sorry I haven't blogged in a week! Work and Team in Training has kept me extremely busy! I'm bummed right now because I thought we were going to get the Eagles game because on the schedule it says "televised nationally" but apparently not because we're getting the giants/seahawks game. At least the seahawks are up 21-0. And Eagles are winning right now too so that's good.

So yeah we have been down a couple therapists at work so it's been really busy. But it's going well so I can't really complain. I'm at 24% of my financial goal for Team in Training. I have to be at 60% by October 23 so keep your fingers crossed for me! (or donate! or give my website to friends you have who might be interested in donating :)). I'm going to try to get some corporate sponsors, because that would help me out big time. So if you work for a major company and have any contact info with HR/annual giving please email me! (alb245@yahoo.com)

I ran 7 miles today for Team in Training. I had to run by myself though b/c the team didn't run together at 6:30 because it was thundering and lightninging (is that a word?).

And oh yeah, it was HUMID! I got really excited last week because for 3 days it was nice and cool and I thought fall was finally here....yeah, for the past 5 days it's been mid-high 80's and HUMID. I'm ready for fall!

We had some people over to watch the PSU game yesterday (so close psu, so close). We made Jackie's pepperoni dip from the recipe she gave us for the shower...it was AWESOME!!! It was gone in like 5 minutes.

Everything else has been going well. I'll try to blog more than once this week! Here are a couple of pics of Bham from The Vulcan (second largest statue in the US next to the Statue of Liberty)...there's a fun little Alabama fact ;)

Mississippi

So I can officially check Mississippi off of my states that I've been to. Although I do have to say, for anyone who has never been there, you're not missing anything. My cousin Todd's wedding was this weekend back at home. Unfortunately Tom and I couldn't make it :( So as soon as Children's found out that I was going to be around, I was "strongly encouraged" to attend a bracing workshop in Oxford, Mississippi. It wasn't all bad, and I learned a lot at the workshop, but Ole Miss is missing something.

For people who live in Alabama, the joke about Alabama and Mississippi is that if it weren't for Mississippi, Alabama would be the worst state to live in (haha, it's not as bad as it seems). The only "hick" thing that I saw was this beat up old black school bus on the side of the road that had an air conditioner sticking out one of the windows....so I'm guessing someone lives there???
Anyways I got back last night and had to go to bed almost immediately because our first Team in Training long run started this morning (see website for more info on how that went). http://www.active.com/donate/tntagc/awesomeanne

I feel like I was going to tell you all something else but I can't remember. Notice I said "you all" and I did NOT say "y'all." Although I find myself saying "you all" instead of "you guys" so I'm wondering if "y'all" is not far behind. Hopefully not.

Happy middle of September :)

Weekly Update

Man....Penn State.......what was that all about?! We are a young team, we are a young team, we are a young team. Seriously though, we are. Plus if Ganter could actually hold the ball for a field goal the whole game might have gone differently. Hopefully he's the last Ganter playing for Penn State solely because his dad used to be the offensive coordinator. At least the Eagles won! E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES!

I ran 7 miles yesterday for my long run! Our official "team runs" start this Sunday for Team in Training (at 6:30 in the morning!! ahhhh!). But at least we'll be done running before it gets hot out. It's been low to mid-80's this week and it's been great! This morning it was 73 degrees and I was about to get my winter coat!



Here is a pic of my hair right after I got it cut! I haven't worn it curly yet because it turns into a fro after about 40 minutes ;) I really like it though! I'll post a pic of it when it's straight (how I normally wear it) as soon as I get one.




There are a few updated pics of the apartment in this album. I think they're on the 3rd & 4th pages.
http://good-times.webshots.com/album/552366746kmCnOj?start=0

Enjoy!

Just for Fun

Keepin' busy...livin' for the weekend

I've been trying to get over a cold for the past few days so I apologize for not blogging. First football weekend was wonderful. We watched Penn State kick some zip-butt with some friends, ate yummy tailgate food (Ciara-everyone loved your buffalo chicken dip recipe!), and drank a few cold ones. Did any of my loyal readers watch the game and see the (crazy) (drunk) guy in the raft that they showed toward the beginning? That was my dad's friend Earl in my dad's raft...too funny. We're sitting there watching the game and then we see Earl paddle by in a raft on national tv.

I got my haircut! I'll have to post a picture....it's really short (for me)! It's above my shoulders. I love it, Tom's getting used to it. It's a big change but I was mentally prepared for the short hair....I'm used to it already.

My training has been kinda "eh" this week for Team in Training. I want to keep running but I don't want to get any sicker than I am right now. I ran 6 miles on Sunday (a new personal best for me) and 3 miles yesterday. Hopefully I'll be able to run at least 3 more days this week. Check out my site (link to the left under "links") to see all the fun people who have donated! (Your name could be on there too!)

Work is getting pretty busy....like CHOP busy. But everyone is really good about helping out other people when we get crazy so that's really good.
I'll try to blog again before the weekend....but if not.....


GO STATE, BEAT IRISH!

FOOTBALL!!!

I CAN'T WAIT!! Penn State kicks off at 2:30 tomorrow (3:30 for all you eastern time zone folks). I'm so excited!! I was so excited last week for football too, and we were watching games from last year on ESPN classic and it looked so nice outside....all cool and crisp and like great football weather.......then I stepped outside on our balcony and got a rude awakening when it was 97 degrees and the humidity was like 70%. Oh yeah, I live in Alabama and it doesn't get cool here until November! Fortunately I've adjusted to the heat down here so 85 degrees feels like a brisk autumn day! I hope everyone has a good labor day weekend and enjoys the start of football season! I know I will :)

Relaxing Weekend

What a wonderful weekend! It was very relaxing and just what I needed! Friday night we had some friends over so that was pretty fun. Saturday...hmmmm...what did we do Saturday? I think just a lot of catching up on things...laundry, recycling, etc. Sunday we went to the gym. I ran 5 miles! (One of my Team in Training goals for this week) and then went to the pool Sunday afternoon.
I'm SOOOOOO super excited for football to start! I can't wait for Saturday. Tom and I decided we are going to "tailgate" at our apartment every penn state game. I'm going to try to cook some "tailgating food" every week....each week something different. So if you have any good recipes...please email them to me at alb245@yahoo.com This week we're doing some sort of meatballs. Basically I just want an excuse to use our new crock pot :)
That's all for now. Feel free to check out my TNT website for updates on my running progress! Please donate if you can! Even donating as little as $5 or $10 can help make a huge difference in the lives of people with leukemia or lymphoma!
http://www.active.com/donate/tntagc/awesomeanne

Atlanta Pics are up

http://community.webshots.com/user/awesomeanne/3
"Atlanta Trip"

Atlanta trip

We had a good time in Atlanta this past weekend. I’ll hopefully post the pics soon on webshots. We went with some of Tom’s friends from UAB so there were 7 of us total. We drove out on Saturday and went to the Bodies in Motion exhibit at the civic center…which apparently was the same thing as the bodies exhibit at Franklin Institute but I was never able to go because I was always busy with wedding planning. Anyways it was amazing and right up my alley. The bodies were dissected and then plasticized using this new preservation technique they are working on. The muscles were really cool and a good anatomy review for me :) But the cardiovascular system was by far the coolest. They injected all of the arteries and veins with red and blue dye and then somehow miraculously dissected everything else away except for the arteries and veins and they were able to preserve them in their original shape. It was amazing.

Saturday night we went to Underground Atlanta for dinner which was kinda scary…I do not recommend it. Then we went to a bar that had live music and ended up across the street at Hard Rock so that was fun.

On Sunday we went to the Georgia Aquarium (and Ikea! How I miss Ikea!) The aquarium was really cool and I have some cool pics of that I will have to post. My favorite part was the giant whale sharks. They only ate plankton, and for some reason each one of them had their “posse” of little yellow fish that swam in front of their mouths. There’s a pic of one below but it’s kinda hard to see the little yellow guys. This might be Ralph…one of them was named Ralph :) These 2 pics are from my camera phone so they’re not that great. All in all it was a good trip.