Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Sweet Tea!!!!


Our final stop was in Atlanta as we arrived at the airport around 10:15pm Monday night. A quick nap at the local Holiday Inn and we were back on the road Tuesday morning heading home.

The photo on the left shows our last meal on our trip. For those following along the way, you may remember our last meal prior to starting our trip back in June was at the Cheesecake Factory in Atlanta. This time we kept it simple and hit the local Chick-fil-A. It was no ordinary Chick-fil-A though, it was the original. The first one, established in 1946 in Hapeville, Georgia is located right near the Atlanta Airport. I would highly recommend a stop next time you are there. It is actually a Dwarf House original as well and features the "new" style Chick-fil-A, but still has the old, original style complete with menu style orders. I had grits, eggs and a huge slab of Chick-fil-A chicken. The biscuits were good as well, but the highlight was my big glass of pure southern sweet tea!!

We made it home to Poinsett Avenue around 3:00pm. We already miss our new friends from the Alaska trip, but it was good to be back home as well. Many thanks to our families as they made our trip back in even better with some home improvements, cleaning and food waiting on us. Dexter was a bit sluggish from the heat and the fact that he is now closing in on 80 in dog years. He soon warmed up and gave Kaylee a big sloppy kiss.

Kirkland was glad to be home and see everyone. He has even started scheduling his next fishing trip. Kaylee was real excited to be back and has enjoyed just "being home".

Tammy is recovering from the trip, she picked up a late head cold the last day of the trip and is resting. As for me, I am anxious to get started with the school year and the new season that awaits.

The trip was great for all of us. We met new people, experienced life in other parts of the world(even though Alaska is a state, it seems like a different world), and we were all challenged and stretched in different ways.

Who knows, we may soon end up back in Alaska or California one day.

A BIG thank you to all that have read, prayed, and followed our trip along the way. We could not have done it without you. I hope you have enjoyed the blog and I hope I provided a small insight to our summer. There is no way I could have accurately portrayed everything. It was that big of a summer and we enjoyed it.

This blog thing is contagious and who knows.....I may keep posting. Not that anyone would really have an interest, but check back soon for more updates. We do have kind of a big deal arriving in December and we are all excited about that. By the way, we are taking names at this time. Any suggestions....just send away.

Until next time..............................

1 comment:

kmslatton said...

Welcome home and back to the heat! this will be day 3 of near 100 deg. Glad you made it safe and sound.

Kelly