Monday
Mar262007
WP Affair: Parental Escapes & The Movie 300
Monday, March 26, 2007 at 12:08PM
From my time away on Wordpress.com:
A busy weekend. It's nice to have everyone back at school & work, but there's a lot to catch up on, even more so than usual, recovering from our weekend getaway and with family from Walla Walla, Washington coming to visit next week for Spring Break in Atlanta.
It's YELLOW here, very yellow, from the pollen in the air. Everything is covered with the fine, yellow dust, even in Midtown: the streets, the cars, the sidewalks, everything on our balcony. What a mess. But it is a sure sign of Spring in Atlanta; that and warm weather on its way.
Too warm, since we reached record high temperatures this weekend, and in what seems to be a second tradition of Spring in Atlanta, after the pollen: our AC isn't working. Big Sigh.
And speaking of the Weekend Getaway...just so you know:
When we finally got to our 'secret' getaway destination Friday afternoon, desperately looking forward to nothing more than laying around the pool, not setting foot off the resort property for 48 hours straight...
1) The pool was closed and drained for repair, which was noisy and dusty.
2) The restaurant was closed, no bar service, no food or drink to be had at our little resort in the N. Georgia 'mountains.'
3) Our little cabin was musty, moldy, and kinda dirty.
We stayed one night. We drove out to dinner, which we didn't have because of the movie schedule, and a movie, 300 (which was fabulous and visually stunning, very gory in a graphic novel kind of way, lots of flying blood), which we didn't get to see on the IMAX because it was already sold out, so we saw it on a regular screen, which was fine. The movie, 300, even on a regular stadium-seating movie screen, was incredible. All those Spartan warrior abs -- OMG. But I digress.
Still, even after maintaining the good mood and a sense of adventure, happy to just be together with some time off, after all of that, we got screwed, literally: We ended up with a big ol' screw stuck in the rear tire of our nearly-new Jeep. (Today's second Recovery Mission, after scheduling AC service. Laundry is next. Woo hoo.)
We came home. We parked the car in the garage, left the kids at Grammy's and spent the rest of our weekend beside our own pool, with a Thermos pitcher of margaritas. It was awesome.
Oh, by the way, the nice guys at Kauffman Tire fixed the flat tire this morning. It took about an hour -- no charge!
A busy weekend. It's nice to have everyone back at school & work, but there's a lot to catch up on, even more so than usual, recovering from our weekend getaway and with family from Walla Walla, Washington coming to visit next week for Spring Break in Atlanta.
It's YELLOW here, very yellow, from the pollen in the air. Everything is covered with the fine, yellow dust, even in Midtown: the streets, the cars, the sidewalks, everything on our balcony. What a mess. But it is a sure sign of Spring in Atlanta; that and warm weather on its way.
Too warm, since we reached record high temperatures this weekend, and in what seems to be a second tradition of Spring in Atlanta, after the pollen: our AC isn't working. Big Sigh.
And speaking of the Weekend Getaway...just so you know:
When we finally got to our 'secret' getaway destination Friday afternoon, desperately looking forward to nothing more than laying around the pool, not setting foot off the resort property for 48 hours straight...
1) The pool was closed and drained for repair, which was noisy and dusty.
2) The restaurant was closed, no bar service, no food or drink to be had at our little resort in the N. Georgia 'mountains.'
3) Our little cabin was musty, moldy, and kinda dirty.
We stayed one night. We drove out to dinner, which we didn't have because of the movie schedule, and a movie, 300 (which was fabulous and visually stunning, very gory in a graphic novel kind of way, lots of flying blood), which we didn't get to see on the IMAX because it was already sold out, so we saw it on a regular screen, which was fine. The movie, 300, even on a regular stadium-seating movie screen, was incredible. All those Spartan warrior abs -- OMG. But I digress.
Still, even after maintaining the good mood and a sense of adventure, happy to just be together with some time off, after all of that, we got screwed, literally: We ended up with a big ol' screw stuck in the rear tire of our nearly-new Jeep. (Today's second Recovery Mission, after scheduling AC service. Laundry is next. Woo hoo.)
We came home. We parked the car in the garage, left the kids at Grammy's and spent the rest of our weekend beside our own pool, with a Thermos pitcher of margaritas. It was awesome.
Oh, by the way, the nice guys at Kauffman Tire fixed the flat tire this morning. It took about an hour -- no charge!
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