Sunday, August 2, 2015

A Day in a Year in a Life / Day 214

02/August/2015, Day 214.  Sunday.

We got up early, and it being a beautiful day decided to skip church and drive to Atlanta, to go visit the wonderful Atlanta Botanical Garden.  Traffic on I-75 was rough, much rougher than normal, and once in town we had to take an early exit to avoid the traffic jam on the interstate, and wiggle our way via backroads to the gardens.

The gardens were as beautiful as ever, and suprisingly uncrowded.  It's shame they aren't closer; we would love to spend more time there.  It would be great if I could show you some pics from our most recent visit, (the waterlilies were in bloom, and the kiwis are ripening), but Grump forgot to bring a camera!

After our garden visit we went for a fantastic, (and expensive!), lunch to the wonderful Nori Nori sushi buffet north of Atlanta.  Yum, yum, yum!  But we could only eat so much before our bellies were full, and so, with a tear in our eye, we had to leave beckoning plates of sushi and other delicacies behind and move on to our next task, shopping at the Buford Highway Farmers Market.   

At the Farmers Market we were gonna buy fish, but the guys behind the counter at the fish cleaning area were extraordinarily confused and chaotic today, so we skipped it and instead bought lots and lots of fruit, including a durian!  Sweetie and Grump love a good durian; we hope the one we bought is a good one.

Our drive home from the Farmer Market was atrocious!  I don't know what the problem was, but we had stop-and-go traffic from McDonough practically all the way to Macon!  I've never seen traffic so bad on I-75 going south.  By the time we neared home, Grump, (our driver), was a grumpy nervous wreck.

Before stopping home we swung by Belk at the Riverside Mall real quick, to see if we could pick up a birthday gift for Sweetie before they closed.  Belk is open until 7:00 pm on Sunday, so we made it, barely.  (That traffic on I-75 was really, really bad!!)  What we wanted to buy was a KitchenAid Mixer, which these days are on sale.  (Yes, you can pick them up for even less money online, but Sweetie wanted to buy hers "in person".)  We found one Sweetie liked, (a green one!), and bought it.  So now Sweetie has her first birthday present, and her birthday isn't even until the end of the month.

As the day was winding down, unfortunately a sad event occured: Dodong banged his head again.  What happened is that Grump was talking on the phone to his parents, and didn't realize Dodong was in the living room.  So he left the gate to the hallway open.  Dodong ran out after him, fell, and landed head first on the hard tile.

Sweetie yelled and yelled and yelled at Grump for being so careless, but it is poor Dodong who gets the real injury.  We'll have to pray to Angel again tonight to help protect the little guy, and to especially keep his head from any more bumps or bruises.

Goodnight all.

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