Nicole and Robert (some friends of ours) came to visit us from the Ham last weekend. Friday night, we went to Dave and Busters and had a blast. I swear that place is worse than a casino! Well, I have never been to a casino, but I imagine that money slips through wallets and exchanges hands just as quickly! In my head, I held an ideal that D & B would be very similar to my old Chuck E. Cheese days, and it was to an extent. First, you get a prepaid credit card (which they charge you 2 bucks for) and choose how much you want to spend. Of course, this all depends on the game token : dollar : tokens per game ratio. I do not want to get into it, because it is very confusing! :) Did I mention that I had coupons for a not so great deal? Secondly, you have to swipe your card like a credit card to play the games. After eating dinner, Nicole and I started off with a couple rounds of Ski Ball. I love Ski Ball! Then, I found my true talent playing a coin game. When the game starts, it gives you several coins to drop in the slot of your choice. Then it will push your coin forward and hopefully push other coins up front forward and over the edge and the machine will spit out tickets! Mark and Robert played basketball and some other games. The best part is that you can drink and play at the same time! Man, I could spend a fortune in that place! At the end of the night, we all took a stroll through the prize store and cashed in our tickets. Nicole and Robert had over 2400 tickets and Mark and I had over 4200 tickets. Nicole saw a huge plush giraffe when we all first walked past the store before starting to play. It was 3000 tickets, but she did not have enough to get it and she had to have it because she talked about all night so we all combined our tickets. In the end we walked away with 2 plastic D & B cups, 2 t-shirts, a plush Buzz (GT's mascot's name), a plush blue dog, and the 6 foot giraffe (I named her Jazzy which is short for Jasmine). I want to go back so bad!
On Saturday, we went to Six Flags! Nicole signed us up for Flash passes so we did not have to wait in line, but we still only got to ride 4 rides. I had many not so great coupons for Six Flags too! I did, however, have two great coupons to get them into the park! :) After waiting in line to park, we had to wait in a line to get tickets, and another line to get into the park and then another line to get the Flash Pass. All this took about 2 hours! Blah! The first ride we went on was the Mindbender! It was great, but I got a little freaked out because I had not mentally prepared myself for the day's activities. After eating lunch, we rode the Batman! I really like that ride! Acrophobia was next and I do NOT like that ride! I fell victim to peer pressure and agreed to ride, but when it came time to actually sit in the seat, Nicole bailed and I desparately wanted to follow in her foot steps! Unfortunately, I did not decide quickly enough and up I rose and around I went, then down I came and I shall never do it again! You know that feeling of anxiety that would overcome you when you did something really bad and you knew your parents knew about it, but you had to confront them anyway knowing what would happen? Multiply that by one million and you have my level of anxiety and distress 200ft in the air, listening to the guy count down to the moment I would plummet face down to the ground, trusting and praying that the hydraulics were engineered by a Tech Grad and not a Georgia Grad! I could barely walk when the ride was over and my hands shook for the next ten minutes. The last ride that we rode was the Goliath, but I decided to sit that one out because I had had enough excitement for one day. Nicole and Robert drove back to the Ham from Six Flags and Mark and I enjoyed a relaxing evening at home! Thanks to them for a wonderful weekend and a small dose of fear factor!
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Thursday, July 9, 2009
*+*July 4th*+*
When most people think of family holidays, their minds usually think of Christmas and Thanksgiving first, birthdays might follow as a close second, then Labor Day, Memorial Day, and Spring Break bring up the rear because these holidays revolve around weekends. July 4th is like a floating holiday people take at a more convenient time. For me, July 4th has always ment a great time with family and an excuse to play with fire!
July 4th was always my third favorite holiday after Christmas and my birthday. My parents would take us on two vacations every Summer as a child. One would be a week in Texas visiting my Dad's family (which I always enjoyed as well) and the other was July 4th in Atlanta visiting my Mom's family. My mom has two older brothers and both of them would bring their families as well. Everyone brought fireworks because you could not buy fireworks in Georgia but you could set them off. There was always a ton of fireworks! On other nights my cousins and I would spend hours collecting as many lightning bugs as we could. One year, a neighbor of my grandparents I had become friends with invited me to join her flag twirling group and walk in the Dunwoody parade. I was super excited and my mom bought me this great red, white, and blue dress to wear. The only drawback was I had to take a nap before the parade! Another year, my Aunt took all of us and our cousins to Stone Mountain to see the laser light show and the fireworks. We brought blankets to sit on, a cooler for cokes, and snacks. We had such a great time, we decided to go again another year! Unfortunately, those trips were retired as all of us kids grew up and with the passing of my grandparents.
Last year, my sister invited Mark and I to go with them to Thunder on the Mountain. If you have never been, its an awesome display of fireworks around Vulcan. Nothing like Stone Mountain, but still pretty great! We had a fantastic time that night with my sister, brother-in-law, my neice and their friends.
This year, we did not go anywhere and it was great! I loved being able to relax and sleep in a bit. All we did was go to the pool for about an hour, eat at Dreamland (of course we had to have BBQ!) and watch the fireworks display at Lenox on tv!
To this day, I am always excited about the forth because of all the great memories I have of my family and my childhood. I look forward to having kids and getting together with family to form many new memories!
July 4th was always my third favorite holiday after Christmas and my birthday. My parents would take us on two vacations every Summer as a child. One would be a week in Texas visiting my Dad's family (which I always enjoyed as well) and the other was July 4th in Atlanta visiting my Mom's family. My mom has two older brothers and both of them would bring their families as well. Everyone brought fireworks because you could not buy fireworks in Georgia but you could set them off. There was always a ton of fireworks! On other nights my cousins and I would spend hours collecting as many lightning bugs as we could. One year, a neighbor of my grandparents I had become friends with invited me to join her flag twirling group and walk in the Dunwoody parade. I was super excited and my mom bought me this great red, white, and blue dress to wear. The only drawback was I had to take a nap before the parade! Another year, my Aunt took all of us and our cousins to Stone Mountain to see the laser light show and the fireworks. We brought blankets to sit on, a cooler for cokes, and snacks. We had such a great time, we decided to go again another year! Unfortunately, those trips were retired as all of us kids grew up and with the passing of my grandparents.
Last year, my sister invited Mark and I to go with them to Thunder on the Mountain. If you have never been, its an awesome display of fireworks around Vulcan. Nothing like Stone Mountain, but still pretty great! We had a fantastic time that night with my sister, brother-in-law, my neice and their friends.
This year, we did not go anywhere and it was great! I loved being able to relax and sleep in a bit. All we did was go to the pool for about an hour, eat at Dreamland (of course we had to have BBQ!) and watch the fireworks display at Lenox on tv!
To this day, I am always excited about the forth because of all the great memories I have of my family and my childhood. I look forward to having kids and getting together with family to form many new memories!
Friday, July 3, 2009
Our eyes were bigger than our hands!
Last weekend, Mark and I strolled down to T-Town and painted our house. I think we bit off a little more than we could chew in one weekend, but with the help of friends and family we got it done.
We got into town on Thursday and immediately went to Home Depot (after eating at Wings of course!) to purchase all the supplies we would need to paint a house. Except the paint because we had already purchased it. Little did we know that this would be the first trip to a home improvement store, but not the only trip!
Friday began slowly with a sleepy wake-up call at 7am. After a quick breakfast and a 45 minute drive, we began working on cleaning up the basebaords and walls to tape off everything. This was my nightmare and I could only take so much. Not because I have an aversion to cleaning but because I have an aversion to hundreds of pairs of eight legs and eyes. That's right! They were everywhere and they came in all sizes! Luckily, I have a very sweet husband and a generous Mother in Law who took care of eliminating most of them. After the nightmare was over, the taping began. We taped and taped and taped until the word lost all meaning! We sent Mother Kajdos home about 6pm because Mark and I had planned on putting the first coat of paint on the walls of the office and the guest room. We did not leave till about 11pm. What a first day!
Saturday began with an even harsher wake-up call at 7am. After another quick breakfast, another 45 minute drive, a visit to Lowe's AND a 30 minute search for a Starbucks, we got started on painting the largest area of the house. Kara and I started by painting with a brush and Mark started the rolling. It worked out great for me that he liked to roll and it worked out great for him that I liked the brush work. Matt showed up about 1pm and with all of us working very hard with very few breaks we got everything done, except the master bedroom. Can you believe that we ran out of paint? Kara went with me on the third and final trip to Home Depot to get one more gallon of paint at 9pm. That seemed to finish us all up and we headed home about 10pm.
I bet you can guess how Sunday started! An early alarm at 7am. It was especially hard for Mark since he stayed up to hang out with friends till almost 3am, but we made it down to the house by 9:30am and the clean up began! Mark and his mom removed the tape around the baseboards while I was up and down the ladder removing the tape around the ceiling and painting over mistakes. We left about 2pm with a satisfied feeling and pictures!
All in all, everything went well and I do not want to see another paint brush for a very long time!
We got into town on Thursday and immediately went to Home Depot (after eating at Wings of course!) to purchase all the supplies we would need to paint a house. Except the paint because we had already purchased it. Little did we know that this would be the first trip to a home improvement store, but not the only trip!
Friday began slowly with a sleepy wake-up call at 7am. After a quick breakfast and a 45 minute drive, we began working on cleaning up the basebaords and walls to tape off everything. This was my nightmare and I could only take so much. Not because I have an aversion to cleaning but because I have an aversion to hundreds of pairs of eight legs and eyes. That's right! They were everywhere and they came in all sizes! Luckily, I have a very sweet husband and a generous Mother in Law who took care of eliminating most of them. After the nightmare was over, the taping began. We taped and taped and taped until the word lost all meaning! We sent Mother Kajdos home about 6pm because Mark and I had planned on putting the first coat of paint on the walls of the office and the guest room. We did not leave till about 11pm. What a first day!
Saturday began with an even harsher wake-up call at 7am. After another quick breakfast, another 45 minute drive, a visit to Lowe's AND a 30 minute search for a Starbucks, we got started on painting the largest area of the house. Kara and I started by painting with a brush and Mark started the rolling. It worked out great for me that he liked to roll and it worked out great for him that I liked the brush work. Matt showed up about 1pm and with all of us working very hard with very few breaks we got everything done, except the master bedroom. Can you believe that we ran out of paint? Kara went with me on the third and final trip to Home Depot to get one more gallon of paint at 9pm. That seemed to finish us all up and we headed home about 10pm.
I bet you can guess how Sunday started! An early alarm at 7am. It was especially hard for Mark since he stayed up to hang out with friends till almost 3am, but we made it down to the house by 9:30am and the clean up began! Mark and his mom removed the tape around the baseboards while I was up and down the ladder removing the tape around the ceiling and painting over mistakes. We left about 2pm with a satisfied feeling and pictures!
All in all, everything went well and I do not want to see another paint brush for a very long time!
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