Our pre-UT trip to Atlanta

Craig's plant was shut down the week of Fourth of July. We planned a family reunion trip in conjunction with the shut down since he had to use a week of vacation then anyway. Since our flight out to UT left Tuesday morning out of Atlanta we decided to Priceline a hotel room for Monday night and spend some time in Atlanta Monday afternoon. We went to the Atlanta History Center and had fun touring the farm there and walking around the Swan House. If you pull up the picture of the farm house you can see a door on the left side of the porch. That is the "Southern Hospitality" room. I guess they would leave that door open and it was a little room with a bed where travelers could stay and were always welcome. Thus the saying "the door is always open". If the door happened to be closed the traveler knew that it was already occupied. Southern farmers welcomed travelers and the news they brought with them, since they only made it into town about once a month. Craig and I decided we probably would not have been farmers. :>
Thanks to Mom and Dad for getting us the year passes into Atlanta History Center in December our return visit was free! Then we went to dinner at Johnny Rockets and swam in the hotel pool. It was fun to be in the Holiday Inn next to the Olympic park and even more fun to only play $38 for the night! The next morning we got up and drove to the Atlanta airport and flew out to UT!