Off to Hayesville

After two relaxing nights at Katie and Brian's house, we're heading off to Hayesville this morning to celebrate my Mom's 80th birthday. Yesterday we went to the Georgia Acquarium, which was a wonderful experience. We were able to make our reservations early in the morning, so the otherwise packed attraction was relatively empty. It made for a fun time.

Last night we had dinner at Longhorn Steakhouse and my niece Laura was able to join us. Afterwards Laura headed off to pick up Catherine and the rest of us headed back to the house to have fun and get ready for our trip this morning.

Just before dinner, my brother Charles called me on my cell phone. He said that he, along with three of his son's, was about three hours outside of Atlanta. I tried to rub it into him that we were having fun and already here and that we will have gone to dinner and had dessert and come back home and he'd still be stuck in the car near the end of an eight hour drive. Charles responded by asking "Is your wife with you?" I looked to Dea, "Yeah." He said with a chuckle, "Mine's not. So who has it better?"

We shared a big laugh. My wife didn't think it was that funny.