4th of July trip

For the 4th we decided to take a little trip north to Atlanta. My friends and I thought we should explore the city a little since we have lived so close to it for years and have never gone to any of the tourist-y places. On the way we had to make a stop at the dwarf house...it's a tradition for me :) Mark had to experience it too! Once we got checked into our room we decided to go to Target and Wal-Mart...what a night!! I love you girls and you know why! HaHa!
Saturday we got up and went to IKEA! Oh and am I in love. I will def. be making a trip back there very soon. We had lunch at the Varsity which was really fun. They make a fabulous BLT too. The plan for the night was to go to Stone Mountain for fireworks, but by the time we were going to go they had already reached their capacity, so we had to find something else to do. We had a little help from Jill's brother, Justin and he suggested we go to a park. I forgot the name...but it was beautiful. They had a huge playground area and lake. I wish we could have brought it back with us to Columbus. We had a picnic lunch and fed the ducks. Mark and I also played on the playground. He loves to go down the slide now. We thought we could catch some of the fireworks shows in the area and we managed to catch the end of all of them. The only problem was that we only saw the very tip of them. Although the fireworks were a bust we had a really fun day!
Sunday we got up, packed, and checked out of our room. Justin was speaking at his church that morning, so we went to hear him. He did a great job. We went to eat at a cute little Mexican resturant after, but it wasn't as good as El Vaquero. So after lunch we finally reached the Georgia Aquarium...yay :) It was amazing and I took so many pictures. Mark fell asleep halfway through, but he got to see some fun stuff before his nap. We left there and went straight to World of Coke which was really neat too. I highly recommend both attractions :)
After our day out we got dinner at Hard Rock Cafe. You really can't visit Atlanta without eating there. It was delicious as always, but they charge way too much for a kid's meal...$7.50 really? We finally hit the road to come around 9:30, so it was a late night for us once we got back into town. I think I have finally recovered, almost a week later. I know I had a blast! I am so lucky to have such awesome friends!!