Happy Happy Happy Happy Anniversary (almost)!!

Yesterday Craig and I (and Sophie)went down to Atlanta for the day to see the Chinese Terracotta Soldiers exhibit at the High Museum and tour CNN. We had planned on visiting the King Tut Exhibit at the Civic Center as well, but we ran out of time so we'll have to do that later. Maybe Katie and Taylor would like that. We had so much fun. We started by touring CNN and then went to lunch at this place called "The Varsity" over by Georgia Tech. It is the biggest Drive-in ever. It can hold like 600 cars! Unbelievably huge and known for hot dogs and onion rings and the "what'll ya have? what'll ya have?" saying. It was a pretty good greasy spoon. I liked all the shredded lettuce on my burger. The onion rings were good. Sophie LOVED the cups! She couldn't stop staring at them and really, really wanted to put them in her mouth. It was so funny, she was so excited she was shaking!
After lunch we had timed entrance tickets to the High museum. Maybe Laney can explain to my why we buy timed entrance tickets to these things and then wait in a line longer than the regular ticket line to get our "e tickets" even though we've already printed them off. Why do we bother buying ahead online??? Anyhow, the exhibit was really neat. I would love to someday go see the real Terracotta Soldiers. I learned lots of things I didn't know like the Chinese money is round representing the heavens and the square represents the Earth, I guess they thought the Earth was flat still. Then I learned the China probably comes from the Qin (pronounced "Chin") Dynasty. 23 square miles that have been discovered so far. That's alot of Soldiers 7,000 and it took 1,000 to build them. Then the Emperor's tomb has not yet been excavated because it's believed that he had rivers of mercury (he really didn't want to die) within the mountain that held his tomb. They are waiting until better methods to preserve and un-Earth the tomb have been discovered. WOW! They have been working on this site since 1974! Talk about job security!

Then we went to dinner at a place called Mary Mac's Tea Room that I have seen featured on Food Network and the Travel Channel. Sorry for the blurry picture. I was walking while shooting it. It was good! I loved the fried green tomatoes, chicken n dumplings, pot likker and cracklin' cornbread and their yeast rolls. The peach cobbler was okay but they should have used fresh peaches. Craig liked their banana pudding.
It was so fabulous to go down and escape for the day! It really was a great way to celebrate our 9th anniversary.