Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta Activities: April 7-13, 2013

Sunday morning 4/7/13 The North America Safari (TNAS) quartet headed south and east towards Birmingham, AL. It was a fairly smooth drive of about 250 miles on good roads with a lot of very pretty spring greenery along the roadsides. We stopped for the night in a small Elks Club in Anniston, AL.

Monday 4/8/13 sees the MoHo and family making the run to Atlanta. We wanted to try and get to the Cummings Dealer to have the throttle looked at (big mistake???). While trying to find the spring for the throttle an inspection revealed more PROBLEMS! Yikes not what we had planned on. Couldn’t schedule us to work on this week, so we will leave it while we are in Boston and pick it up when we get back.

Tuesday 4/9/2013 we drove to our campground out at Stone Mountain. A very pretty area, but quite crowed, many of the area schools were on Spring Break. We got set up and settled for our 4 days in the area. We will be participating in many family activities for Scott and Anne’s wedding. The evening was very nice, ate a meal in and enjoyed a peaceful campfire. Corona was VERY interested with the birds and squirrels and other critters that inhabited the campground.

 Wednesday 4/10/13 – We drove the little Prius around a lot today. We took Guinness and Corona to visit their kennel for a few hours this morning.  While the BOYZ were having their play dates we took time to acquaint ourselves with the area. We drove by the church, the reception venue, and other locations that we will be visiting this weekend. Things are much more spread out than we realized they would be. We met Marq, Steph, Chuck, Terri, and Scott in downtown Atlanta for dinner. We ate at the popular Mary Mac’s Tea Room – a dinner house featuring southern cooking. It was so much fun to enjoy a good meal and kick off the celebration weekend.

Thursday 4/11/13 – the family all met downtown to take a 90 minute tour of the Atlanta. This was a fun fast paced tour aboard two 6-person electric golf carts. Our tour guides were very informative and entertaining. We met up together again in the evening for the wedding rehearsal followed by a family dinner at a local Mexican Restaurant. Just a few margaritas were consumed.

Friday 4/12/13 - We went with Kris and Laura to see the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park. We enjoyed the grounds and walked through the old Baptist Church that the grandfather, father, brother and Martin Luther King Jr. had preached in. Our evening was spent at bride Anne’s sister’s house celebrating their upcoming nuptials participating in Bengali traditions. There was a lot of music, dancing and eating. The Wraights did their best to look the part and join Anne’s family by the women wearing saris and men punjabis . It was a very interesting evening.

Saturday 4/13/2013 was the wedding. We all gathered at the St. Lawrence Catholic Church to celebrate the wedding of our nephew Scott and his bride Anne. It was a lovely ceremony: Marq was one of Scott’s groomsmen and Kris read the bible verse “Love is patient, Love is kind…” The families then met up at Vacoma on the Yellow River, a very nice reception venue. We enjoyed a lovely evening of good food and entertainment, Mike played Annie’s Song and Ava Maria on his French horn. The families all seemed to enjoy each other dancing and chatting through out the evening. It was a great few days getting to spend time with our family and getting know new members of Anne’s family. A lot activities and a lot of fun!