Friday, September 11, 2009

Atlanta and Waffles, but not Atlantic Waffles


Well, It's been a little while since our last post...it's been a busy few weeks.

Before school started back, on my last weekend of summer, Jesse surprised me with a trip to Atlanta! We stayed downtown at the Hilton. It was our first trip out of town other than the honeymoon. We had a great view from the room. Here is a picture of one direction we could see.

We tried to find unique little restaurants around town to eat at. There was a HUGE line at this place called The Flying Biscuit like you see at pancake pantry here. We didn't want to wait that long, but we ended up finding another one elsewhere that had a smaller line and decided to try it. It was ok.... but for a place named after their biscuits they sure are hard. Although I guess that would make them better to throw, and "fly..." And of course... we couldn't resist a trip to IKEA. Actually I think that was the reason Jesse chose Atlanta. And of course we can't go there without a fight. I think it's because Jesse knows we are going to leave with more than he thought. And we did! But we finally got the dining chairs and TV stand we've been needing! Now the apartment looks so much more settled, lived in, purposed.

This picture is a little dark, but the tv stand is basically 8 cubes and you can see the dining chairs which are still at a card table because Dad is still working on our dining table, but I saw it the other day and it looks very close to done!!
We also got 2 other chairs since our table is going to be expandable, so we have 6 chairs total. We are keeping the other 2 in the kitchen along a blank wall for a little seating in there.

We also went to the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. It was good, but I would recommend the Chattanooga Aquarium first. The Georgia is supposed to be the largest in the world, but I think that must be by square feet. If you ask me, it should be measured by gallons of water, because it doesn't have too much of that, compared to Chattanooga anyway.

This is the Balooga whale.

Now, the waffles... :) On Labor day we made waffles for breakfast. It was the first time we have used the waffle maker we got as a wedding gift. It has 2 sided plates that make heart shaped waffles on one side and Belgian waffles on the other. So of course we made the heart shaped ones!! :)


I used Grandma's recipe, which I had never made before, and they tasted good, but they were hard. I think I am going to have to adjust my cooking time/temp. And I have to throw this last picture in for Jesse because he just loves these mixing bowls we have:

He thinks they look like baseball helmets because of the lip and the color. :) He's right. But we promise we won't put these on our heads when we cook for guests!!

Other than all this, school has started back which means I am much busier, up earlier, and a little more stressed. More annoyed than stressed though. :)