A Record Breaking Day in Hotlanta!

We spent an action packed weekend in Atlanta with Matt and the Grand-Princess.  We rallied behind our favorite baseball team, the Atlanta Braves, Friday night at Turner Field.  Despite our loudest Braves Chant and our most fierce Tomahawk chop, we couldn't bring home a win.  Oh, well.  We had a great time and enjoyed a spectacular fireworks show after the game.  And, I got to see Chipper Jones play!  Not a bad night!

Saturday we headed out for Six Flags over Georgia.  We sweltered in the record breaking temperature of 106 degrees!  I'd like to do a short commercial for the Frogg Toggs Chilly Pad.  "When wet, the towel begins to evaporate and cool, providing cool, soft comfort to the user."  It really works and I will love my dear friend, Terri Pate, forever for giving me the heads up about it.  Between my Chilly Pad and my $10 refillable Six Flags souvenir cup, this magnolia blossom survived the heat.  Mylee was well prepared for the day with her hat, shades and a "pak-pak" full of necessary supplies.  She figured out things pretty quickly in Bugs Bunny World and pointed us in the right direction all day!

The last time we were at Six Flags, which was about 12 years ago, I had to ride all of the roller coaster rides with the boys.  Ted had this thing about heights and being more than 5 feet off the ground.  So being more than 5 feet off the ground, upside down, going 50 miles per hour was just not going to happen.  Matt announced his intent to ride the coasters and stated he needed a partner.  Ted volunteered, and this weekend my man overcame some fears and broke a few personal records of his own.  They started the day off by tackling the Acrophobia, a 20-story tower that takes you to the top and then free-falls while tilting you at a 15 degree angle, forcing you to look straight down.

This was the highlight of the trip for me.  I really could not believe Ted did this.  I've barely been able to get him on the Tilt-A-Whirl at the state fair for crying out loud!  And now he's free-falling 20 stories and riding roller coasters doing vertical loops at 88 feet in the air?  What a man!  There's just something about a man doing death defying, heroic things that makes a girl get all giddy inside.  But there's also something about a man who washes my clothes, waters my flowers and makes a trip to the grocery store just so I can rest that makes a girl's heart melt.  So whether he's doing death defying stunts or simply serving me in the mundane things of life, he breaks his own best record every day and captures my heart again and again.