Hello from Anner and Aaron!: October 2009

I can't believe it! Yesterday I was shopping for my Halloween accoutrements and what was playing? It was Christmas music!! I could have gone for some spooky music, but no marketing people asked me. I tried to talk to the check-out girl about it. She was completely non-responsive. She didn't agree, disagree, or care to engage in the ChristmasMusicConversation in any way, shape or form. So that's that. I don't know about this country sometimes. :)

We're just home from a fabulous trip to Atlanta! We saw all of our family and took in plenty of little league (eh hem, I mean "Shetland pony league") baseball. Uncle Aaron was a personal warm-up coach for Mitchell. I got to keep score. It's extra fun to have a special job. Mitchell is an excellent ball player. He's also an equally excellent reader, which blew us away! What I liked the most is that the coaches and parents were super positive and no one was mean like those little league horror stories you hear about on TV.

We also got to see the Braves at the Ted - that's the beloved Ted Turner Stadium for those who aren't Atlantans. We loved the stadium although the Braves lost what would have been an exciting come-from-behind win. To my surprise they had veggie burgers. I did not expect veggie burgers at an Atlanta sporting event. I did watch as they cooked my veggie burger and actually poured the juice the meat hamburgers were sitting in on top of it. Now that, I pretty much expected.

I got to meet Aaron's aunt Lee and uncle Mark. They were super nice and we had a great time. They drove in all the way from Florida.

And we ate. We roamed meal to meal socializing with whomever was there with us. We got to eat at The Flying Biscuit - twice. The Flying Biscuit is a local breakfast institution. I bought their cookbook last visit and this visit I had to see it for myself. This is a place that truly believes that "everything's better with butter" - ooh la la! De-lish.

Can I just say how incredibly nice people are in Atlanta. Their service takes the cake. From my small experience it's way above and beyond anything I'm used too.

Now we're home and made it through our first week of work.

I planted about 150 bulbs the weekend we got home, including "fall crocuses". Have you ever heard of such a thing? We'll see if they manage to pop up this fall or if we have to wait a year. We also planted pink daffodils. Pink! And some grey/chocolate colored ones that Aaron fell in love with. Amazing! Anyway, we'll see what spring brings. Mostly the garden looked good when we got home. The wedding tree and the cork screw maple both are changing colors and look good. Yep, the wedding tree seems to have survived it's crow-based desctruction with a little tlc. Let's hope it has enough bark regrown to survive the winter... glad we didn't already get 18" of snow like they did in Denver!

It's going to be a busy fall so it was good to get the break in while we could!! Here are some pictures!