The trip in numbers:
Nights away: 7
Places we slept: 4
Friends visited: over a dozen
Miles travelled: 1698
Gallons of gas pumped: 61.472
Cheapest gas found: $2.369/gallon in Greenville, SC on 8/23
States traversed: 5
Texas license plates spotted: 40+
Visits to the Atlanta Ikea: 2
Really good sermons heard in person: 1
Exhausted girls happy to be home: 2
(Kate and I went to Atlanta and Birmingham via Charlotte, Greenville and Wake Forest.)
I think maybe that last stat should be three, not two. :)
Glad you had a good trip. Sounds full! I just got back from flying with the girls to northern Michigan. Yes, alone.
Wow! Welcome home!!
Lexi was hyper and moving around all trip, but I doubt it really exhausted her, since her surroundings are pretty stable ;o)
It’s so nice to see my husband again!
We missed you!
So glad that I was one of the dozen visited. Great to meet you and Kate. Thanks for taking time to see me.
Rebekah
Wow– you’ve been to the Atlanta IKEA twice as many times as I have. I’m jealous… ;) Maybe next weekend we’ll have a chance to go. Gaines is so far unenlightened to the ways of big blue and yellow people magnet.
Wish I knew you two were coming to A-town… Maybe next time you come through we can meet you girls (and guy, if Mike comes along)?
Glad you had a good trip! What a fun roadtrip to tell Kate about when she’s older. Where did you go/stay in B’ham and ATL, may I ask? I’ve lived in both and still hanker after the Magic City in ‘Bama.
It’s nice to be missed!
Rebekah,
I’m glad we were able to have lunch before we headed out of B’ham, it was really fun!
Allison,
I thought about dropping you an email, but the ATL part of my trip was to see one of my dearest friends and her husband before they move away, probably to someplace much farther than Atlanta. Other than the two trips to Ikea (one centering on the lost and found…) and a quick stop at Jake’s for ice cream, we pretty much just hung out and talked. They live in Decataur. The Birmingham trip was to visit some friends but also just to scout the city as a whole, though I was in the east side ‘burbs most of the time. I saw way more people there. You must go to Ikea though. We love Ikea and have a bunch of furniture from there, so I walk around saying, “we own that and that…”
Glad to have you home!
Jake’s! Yummy! They closed down the one near GSU last year which made me sad.
Oh, I have been to IKEA… and YES I do plan to have furniture from there…one day. I think you have the coffee table that I really want with all the slots for storage underneath.
B’ham, ‘eh? “scout the city,” eh? It’s a cool place to be. I’d love to move back there… one day. Most of my college friends live there. Ah, memories. Have you ever been to the Purple Onion?
We just wanted to see if B’ham was a place we could live if we need to move. I think it passes the test. No Purple Onion, yet.
I do have that coffee table and I LOVE it. It was a good deal and it’s really sturdy.