Atlanta

Last year, we went down to Atlanta and had a great time.  We wanted to do it again next year because we are not sure we can go next year with Austin starting Kindergarten.  When we planned the trip, we took our best guess that we wouldn't miss a home Cavs playoff game.  And we were right!

We went to the Cavs watch party at the Q at 7pm Friday night.  We love the watch parties.  They are a lot of fun.  They have fun fest down on the court and give a small treats to eat since we are Wine and Gold members.  The Cavs won so it was great!

However we had a flight at 6am.  That was rough but we made it.  Then the plane was delayed which was annoying since we were up so late and got up so early.  It finally took off and we arrived at 8:30am in Atlanta.  The kids are fabulous on the plan.  They watch and play games on their Kindles.

We got a our rental car.  Brian installed the car seats and then we were off to the lake house.  It's a two hour drive away.  The kids were exhausted so they fell asleep in the car.  We stopped at McDonald's for lunch/breakfast.  The kids got pancakes.  They love that they can get pancakes all the time there.

Once we arrived at the lake house, the kid were ready to play.  Brianna was great with the kids.  There were paddle boats.  They loved those and really liked going out with the big kids.  Austin liked kayaking too.  Then we even went out on the boat and Austin got to tube.  Austin didn't like it because he got a lot of water splashed in his face.  There was a golf cart and Brianna would drive it.  They would go down a little hill and she told them it was a roller coaster.  They loved it.  There was a fire and we had s'mores.  There was even a cake for Connie's anniversary.  It was a fun day!

In the morning, Jim took Riley, Ryan, Brianna, Brian, Austin and Sydney fishing.  Austin has been so excited to go fishing.  This was his first time.  Amazing they caught 14 fish!  Jim said he never catches that many.  We believe Brian's dad had something to do with this.  It was amazing.  Austin was so excited!

Later in the day, we all went out on the pontoon boat.  Austin went boating again.  This time he liked it because it didn't go as fast and didn't get splashed in his face.  We even made Sydney try it but she didn't like it.  She was really tired though.  In fact, she fell sound sleep in my arms on the boat before we even made it back to the dock.

We helped clean up and then got ready to go to the airport.  Since it was a two hour drive, we wanted to get there at a reasonable time.  We stopped in downtown Atlanta because we knew the Cavs would likely be playing them next.  Brian took a picture of the kids there.

We checked into our hotel near the airport.  We took the kids to a IHOP for dinner.  They had never been to one before.  Since they love pancakes, it was perfect.  We went back to the hotel and read some books the hotel had for kids.  It was great they have that program!

Then we watched the Cavs game.  I fell asleep.  I knew that it was likely Disney was going to announce it's free fall dining that morning.  And they did.  It was a disaster because the dates I was planning were not on the list of dates.  So we had to figure something else out.  But we still needed to get ready for the airport and eat breakfast.  It was stressful.

We left for the airport and dropped off the rental car. Then went to the ticket counter and the lines were crazy long.  After we dropped off our bag, we stood in line for security for an hour.  We were so close to missing our flight.  We had to run though the airport and got to our gate just in time.  It was a mess!

The flight was fine and the kids used their kindles.  I went and got the van once we arrived back in Cleveland while Brian and kids waited for the bag.  Once we got home, I finished booking Disney and Brian went to work.