Atlanta

Atlanta is gorgeous and green, large and lush.  Get yourself a couple of tour guides like Damien and Natalya, and you’ll see the best of the best!

We drove up in style to Damien’s ultra cool office to begin our tour.

My son is an executive!  The name of his company is top secret – we’ll call it The Matrix to protect the innocent.

We were all famished, so we went directly to what is probably the very best pizza place in the States, Antico Pizza Napoletana (www.anticopizza.it/).  Everything there is imported from Italy, including the brick ovens!  Wow!

We took a tour of the Atlanta Temple, which will be dedicated this weekend.  Tricia had lots of questions as we walked through the beautiful rooms (ldschurchtemples.com/atlanta/).

A gorgeous display of unusual flowers and plants are found at The Atlanta Botanical Garden (atlantabotanicalgarden.org).

We enjoyed goofing off when we weren’t marveling at everything!

We even found a great addition to Eden’s Airstream:

All that walking made us hungry!  Next on the itinerary was a humane burger joint called Farm Burger in Decatur (www.farmburger.net).  I had a delicious veggie quinoa burger.

To refuel the next morning, we treated ourselves to The Flying Biscuit Cafe (flyingbiscuit.com).  They do have the best biscuits!

We realized that Tricia and Damien wore the exact same outfit that day.  Twinsies!

We went car shopping at Lenox Square Mall.

Natalya showed some of her fancy bellydance moves!

To cap off the night, they took us to Stone Mountain to see the spectacular laser show!  It was fantastic!

On Easter Sunday, we met cousin Emily for coffee and heard about her travels to Korea and Taiwan.

Natalya made a delicious dinner for us in their beautiful apartment.  It’s always a treat when someone cooks for us!  She’s such a great cook, too!

To earn our dinner, we took a great stroll in Chastain Park.

Before we knew it, it was time to leave.  Before we left, we got to see the terrific quilt shop where Natalya helps quilters with their projects.  It sounds like a really cool place to hang out, too.  Just bring your sewing machine!

So our first excursion to Atlanta was over.  I look forward to more adventures there!

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