As you can see, it’s been quite a while since my last post. Much longer than my usual two months, in fact. I’ll offer a variety of excuses for that in the form of loads of activities that have required my attention, but truth be told, I just didn’t feel like it! The biggest news of the spring is that we know where we’re moving next year. Drumroll, please?
Alpharetta, Georgia! No, don’t rub your eyes and blink rapidly in hopes that you’re living in a cartoon and just seeing things. I tried that when I first wrote this and it didn’t work. We are indeed staying in the greater Atlanta metro area for another year. The kicker is that Alpharetta is a bit too far of a commute from our current Midtown location, so we’re actually going to move 20 miles north to Roswell to balance things out.
The good news is that anyone who wanted to visit Atlanta this year but just didn’t get around to it has a whole other year to make it happen! (Hint — please visit us. Pretty please.)
And without further adieu, here are the loads of activities that kept me from updating this blog for four months:
- Volleyball coaching: This exercise in madness continued to require much of my time during nights and weekends, and made me realize that while I’m glad I got the experience of coaching, I will never. Ever. Coach. Again. At least, not for many, many years.
- Alton Brown at the Walker School: This was just plain cool. Alton Brown gave a one hour cooking demonstration and answered questions to benefit his daughter’s school. He’s skinny and short in person, and he succeeded in making Baked Alaska with a blow torch and dry ice. Pure awesomeness.
- Biking the Silver Comet Trail: This paved biking trail runs from here to Hawaii, or was it Alabama? Anyway, we biked about 20 miles of the trail in February because, unlike the great white north, the south in February is actually quite lovely.
- Boston for a stellar engagement party: We returned to Beantown for my sister-in-law and soon-to-be brother-in-law’s engagement party and had a lovely time, both at the party and as we ate our way around Boston. In three days, we managed to eat at Symphony Sushi, Greek Corner, and El Pelon, which is quite the feat when you consider how many home-cooked meals we also ate with the Reynolds clan.
- Disney World and Wizarding World of Harry Potter: We spent a few fantastic days in April visiting Shaun’s mom and our friend who lives in Orlando, and as usual, Disney did not disappoint. But the blue ribbon of the weekend goes to Harry Potter World at Universal Studios. I’m an admitted Harry Potter fanatic so eating at the Three Broomsticks, drinking Butter Beer, and flying around Hogwarts Castle was kind of the best thing ever.
- Searching for a new house: After a few weeks of fruitless house hunting, we found it! And even though we’re still lowly renters because of our uncertain location next year, our rental for the upcoming year is a gem. Single family house, three bedrooms, fenced backyard, minutes from adorable downtown Roswell. Did I mention three bedrooms? There’s plenty of room for visitors!
- Eating, eating, and more eating: Over the past couple months we’ve been to Tuk Tuk Thai Food Loft, Sotto Sotto, Murphy’s, Nick’s Greek, Rosebud, and a bunch of other places that I can’t remember. If there’s one thing Atlanta does well, it’s food.
- Atlanta History Center: This past weekend, my mom came to visit and we do what we always do — we visited historical sites and gardens. Only this time, they were all in one super interesting location. The Center includes a 19th century farmhouse, a 1920s mansion, six gardens and walking trails, and museum exhibits on the Civil War, Bobby Jones, Eudora Welty, and Folk Traditions of the South. So much information!
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