Hello, Atlanta!

We're headed to Atlanta tonight, our city home for 5 crazy/wonderful years. We're big homebodies, so our very low key plans for the weekend include visiting with friends and my grandparents. In a way this trip is our own little Tour-D'Atlanta, since some of our friends live 45 minutes away from each other on opposite ends of the city. It blows my mind that I can drive from Jackson to Vickburg in the same amount of time it takes to drive from our old house in Marietta to our friend's houses in Norcross. As they say, distance is very relative.

I think I can safely say that we won't be visiting Six Flags this trip. I wonder if you can make a water slide out of a roller coaster?















Seriously though, if you haven't had a chance to check out the flooding in Atlanta, take a minute to do so here . It is amazing and horrific what Atlantans have been through this week. When we left a year ago, the city was still in the midst of one of the worst droughts in history (going on 3 years I think), so this recent diluge was quite unexpected. Thankfully we only had one friend seriously affected (their basement flooded), but it could have been much worse. Please keep all of the families that lost so much this week in your prayers.

I am a little nervous about visiting our old house and subdivision. We had a creek in the backyard that had a tendency to jump its bank after the slightest rain. See the last pictures of this post. Fortunately, even though we didn't understand why at the time, the house was in a 100 year flood zone and required flood insurance. So hopefully if water did any damage to the house, it was covered. I'm just thankful we aren't the ones having to deal with it right now!

Happy weekend!