One of the four

IMG-20110625-00953.jpg, a photo by Wintermute Lives on Flickr.

There are four must-eat places in the Nati:
1. skyline chili
2. penn station
3. larosa's pizza
4. graeter's ice cream

we hit two of the four last week. the blueberry pie ice cream tasted just like they put a blueberry pie in ice cream. amazing.

At Joe's suggestion

Fw: Picture of the family, a photo by Wintermute Lives on Flickr.

My brother said, "hey, make sure you get a picture of everyone together," since he couldn't make it to Ohio last week. So, Dr. Wintermute figured out how to set the timer on my parents' camera and attach it to the tripod. We got several great shots--this one is my favorite--at Pioneer Park, behind my parents' house.

Lark proved that she will eat, as long as she gets to put the food in her mouth

100_2324, a photo by Wintermute Lives on Flickr.

Don't feed me

100_2328, a photo by Wintermute Lives on Flickr.

We set my dad up for this one.

"Hey Dad, why don't you try putting the food in Lark's mouth for her?"

Predictable results.

guest bathtub

100_2350, a photo by Wintermute Lives on Flickr.

my mom picked up a bathtub for Lark (last time we visited we simply didn't give her a bath for a week), and it was a big hit.

Lark and Dada

100_2370, a photo by Wintermute Lives on Flickr.

Btw, those trees were planted when I was in fifth grade.

Yumbii Food Truck, midtown Atlanta, korean tacos

Yumbii Food Truck, midtown Atlanta, korean tacos, a photo by Wintermute Lives on Flickr.

Entering midtown last monday

IMG-20110606-00863.jpg, a photo by Wintermute Lives on Flickr.

Almost 700 miles of driving, and here we are entering midtown Atlanta. We've just turned off the I-85 connector onto 14th street.

Home.

Taken from our balcony last night

Taken from our balcony last night, a photo by Wintermute Lives on Flickr.

Pretty sweet view. It's good to live in the city again.

new look

IMG-20110612-00890.jpg, a photo by Wintermute Lives on Flickr.

Metalsome has a new look, and I love it.

In Atlanta

IMG-20110611-00889.jpg, a photo by Wintermute Lives on Flickr.

We are here. First weekend...I hit metalsome with big game. A great evening that originally called for a final-final at the Clairmont, but that wasn't in the cards for us.

Driving to metalsome made me realize how much I love Atlanta. My internal monologue as I drove from midtown to the highlands:
- Turn from 14 onto Piedmont, passing signs for Screen on the Green. Think of how one my first dates with Dr. W was at Screen on the Green. Think of J-watt, Fuckface, and Chall3po, and our blue bucket of beer (which I still have).
- Pass the Prado. Remember that Gasparyan used to live there.
- Pass Botanical Garden, where Dr. W and I got married.
- Wow, I've driven 1/4 of a mile already have three great psychological landmarks.
- Pass Smith Old's Bar. We used to go here for trivia. This is where Fuckface and I met Chall3po.
- Turn on Monroe. Oh yeah, this is where Breaking H used to live.
- Pass Grady High School. Big Game graduated from there. In college, we scrimmaged his alma mater's team.
- Turn left onto Virginia. This is the park where I proposed to Dr. W. Sadly, it is also the park that memorializes the family that was killed when lightning struck a tree, causing a branch to fall on the car, killing the wife and her two young kids.
- Turn right onto N. Highland. Too many memories to count. Mo's & Joe's--where I learned to drink PBR by the pitcher (before hipsters made drinking PBR ironic).
- At ten high. Time for metalsome.