January 10th, 2007 Wednesday Temp 29.
Well time sure slips by. Since the last update not a lot has happened but I will bring you up to date. Xmas we spent in Atlanta Georgia with Mike. We drove down on Friday before Xmas and came home the day after. While there we did a little sight seeing and visited a kind of Theme Park called Stone Mountain. It is a huge rock mountain that has a carving of some Civil War soldiers on horses on the face, which they also used the side of the mountain for a light show.
It was extremely crowded as one might expect and navigating around was an interesting experience. While there we rode a train around the mountain which seemed to be the most popular thing going on there. It was a modern locomotive pulling open passenger cars which held a LOT of people. The trip around is interesting and had displays of lights and a little show of a guy singing and telling a Christmas story. Trip was probably about 30-40 minutes which paled in comparison of an hour plus wait to get on it. Of course the whole place is designed around shops and eating Kiosks and luring the visitors in to support them. We dropped a few dollars while there so they won't close soon.
While visiting we also made the rounds for eating, taking in Frickers, Maggie Moo's and Starbucks. All over priced but still nice places to eat at.
Traffic on the way down was not to bad till we would hit major cities. Atlanta was certainly the worst. Fortunately we were on the good side of traffic as the opposite side in Atlanta had a 10 mile stand still jam! It still took us about 30-40 minutes to go 2-1/2 miles for our exit.
We left early on the 26th before traffic had a chance to get snarled so it was pretty much a breeze escaping. The rest of the trip was uneventful and just a long drive. 550 miles one way. Got home at 4pm and beat the dark with enough time to relax and catch up on a little rest.
New Years day was spent at home relaxing. The weather has been so warm and we had some days that were in the 60's. Cold right now but going back up into the 50's for the weekend but lot's of rain. Pretty unusual weather for Ohio. Should be in the 20's right now so no reason to complain. Time goes so fast anymore and I finally turned 50 in December. Guess I am officially an old fart now. Whatever!
We had snow on the ground when we returned home from Atlanta but it did not last. We are pretty far behind in snow at the present and with El Nino I don't think we will have to worry about much snow but rain may be the issue and a dry spell this summer.
Well gonna call it updated for now. Not much to report beyond this. So everyone stay warm and to all our friends who are now out West without us, have cool one for us and we will join you in the future.
