In the Life of Me - Halle - Trip to Georgia

Jul. 2, 2007 - Trip to Georgia

Our trip to Georgia went very well. First of all, I got to sit in the back row of our SUV for the first two days. Micah had to sit in the middle row (by himself) and be the controller of the a/c - even when he was asleep. Our car was much more packed than usual with all the luggage, but it was still a comfortable ride anyway.

On the first day, we stopped for the night in Louisiana. Before we got to the hotel, we went to a museum called the Sci-Port Discovery Center. It was very fun and educational and a lot of the stuff you got to do yourself.

The only bad thing was there were a lot of little kids running around, screaming for their moms and not saying "excuse me". Then, a show about constellations REALLY dragged on. You would think that guy was throwing a snooze-a-fest or something.

The other thing was that our hotel wasn't as nice and big as the ones we usually stay at, but that's okay. We were only staying there for one night anyway. Also, the crowd was a little bit rough-looking, but very friendly.

The second day, we went all the way to Atlanta, Georgia, but we had to sit in traffic for a whole 2 hours. Apparently, there was a wreck that killed 3 people. Traffic was backed up for a total of 5 hours.

The third day, my Aunt Marilyn came with us to the Georgia Aquarium. It was unbelievable (in a good way, of course). The fish were amazing and very colorful. So was the aquarium itself. Home Depot, the Georgia Aquarium's biggest sponsor, did a good job on building it. Everyone had a camera or at least stopped to look at the animals for quite a while.

All the exhibits were divided by where the animals lived. They had 1 cold-water exhibit, 1 river-water exhibit, 1 coastal-water exhibit and 2 ocean-water exihibits. The touch pools were very interesting, but very cold. I touched a closed-up sea anenome and that touch pool was 50 degrees cold. Micah touched a shrimp and said that it was very slimy.

The two main animals everybody loved were the beluga whales and the whale sharks. I think the animal that we saw the most of were stingrays.

They had a gift shop which you had to go through. The gifts were amazing, but a little bit price-y. They had everything from jewelry to home decor. I got a pin for my backpack (which I don't usually get at aquariums), Savannah got a magnet and Micah got a pencil case with pencils and a pencil sharpener, an eraser and a ruler.

After that, we drove around a little. Then we met my Aunt Juanita to eat at a resturant called the OK Cafe. It was named after the one in the book To Kill a Mockingbird. It was different than most resturants and had very colorful art-work. Their food was very good, too, especially their cherry lemonade.

Later that night, we visited Aunt Marilyn's house. She gave us lots of birthday presents that I kind of forgot about. I was thankful that she remembered.

The next day, we saw some Georgia colleges before we went to Aunt Juanita's retirement party. The party was held in a courtroom with very comfortable seats. Aunt Juanita reserved front row seats for family and floor seats for speakers and extra close friends.

With all the speakers, the program dragged on a little bit. Even Aunt Juanita made small jokes about people being between her and the food. Some people though, did a short speach, but most of them were kind of long. By the way, Aunt Juanita served more than hors d'oeuvres and water. In fact, she had a strawberry cake with chocolate and white chocolate covered strawberries and even more.

Aunt Juanita's friends gave her a limo, which we got to ride around the hotel in. It had a small tv in it and even had glowing lights that changed colors.

We thought only four of our relatives would be coming over to the hotel, but I think Aunt Juanita misunderstood Mom when she said that we had a big suite. She brought over four relatives, including herself, and five friends. It kind of turned into an after party.

I didn't realize how loud it was until I was outside the room. At one point, I thought the manager or even the police (if there were any around) was going to come to our room to shut us up. Suprisingly, no one did.

After that we went to Columbus, Georgia and stayed with my Aunt Mamie. Her house had lots of unopened or very old and dusty stuff lying everywhere, there were bugs flying and crawling all over the place and it was very cold. There was even a baby scorpion crawling around the air mattress. What was interesting about her house is her big screen tv with surround sound and plenty of DVDs to keep us entertained.

We looked at even more colleges and I got two National Historic Site pins, in one day. It's never even happenend before that I get two pins in one trip.

Then, we moved on to Florida and saw Mom's cousin Rita. Her house was very nice and we even got to swim in her pool. Her air mattress was a little bit small though. Now we're back home.

P.S.- Sorry I'm so detailed, but this was a big trip to cover. Also, I will have to post the pictures later. CVS didn't get my pictures out of the camera very well, so I'll either have to use Micah's or Mom's. Don't think I've forgotten about the recital pictures, either. Those are also waiting on Mom's camera. Last, but not least, what happened to all my comments! I thank everyone for their good work and now I only have 2. Let's all try to fix that please.

P.P.S.- Thank you for the two people that did comment.

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Jul. 9, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by shootingstar

Thanks 4 the comment!!!

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Jul. 9, 2007 - hey

Posted by Anonymous

sorry I haven't commented in a while, it sounds like u had a bunch of fun!!! I love going to aquarium are so much fun I went to one in some were in Kentucky or Tennessee or some were around there and we walk through this tunnel thing and SHARKS! were swimming above us it was scary

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Jul. 9, 2007 - Hello

Posted by DragonMaster12

Thanks for the comment.
I'm speechless right now, my brain's not working to make up a good sentence. But, I'm going to delete my blog in a few days, I'm getting to the point where I don't even want to get on it anymore...Well, other than that have a nice day!

Love,
Heather

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Jul. 10, 2007 - My tag

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Since you saw the tag on my blog, go ahead and do that tag. I meant to PM you about it, but I forgot. Sorry!!!!

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Jul. 11, 2007 - Wow!

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