Atlanta

In early October, we traveled to Atlanta to visit friends who have recently relocated there. Ken has been to Atlanta before (in fact, it was at an Atlanta APS meeting that Ken first encountered these people who would become his coworkers and, later, our friends), but it was my first time there outside of the airport.

We did some touristy things, but we anticipate being back a few times, and so we didn't knock ourselves out trying to see everything possible. We took the MARTA downtown and saw that many skyscrapers still have broken windows from the tornado on March 14, 2008 (coincidentally, our 5th anniversary). We walked around Centennial Olympic Park, and we went to the Georgia Aquarium, which turned out to be really cool (I was skeptical).

Ken took many pictures of the Atlanta skyline from every place we went (downtown, midtown, GA Tech, Piedmont Dog Park, Jimmy Carter Library and Museum...) but this one at dusk in Piedmont Park is my favorite.

We also went to a great pub in Decatur, The Brick Store Pub. Their Oktoberfest celebration was in full swing, and so we were lucky to get a table (even luckier that it was in a corner of the upstairs where the music was not as loud and the patrons were not stomping on the floor and pounding on the tables like their downstairs counterparts). There were people in lederhosen and beer wench dresses, and I don't think that many of them were the pub staff. There was also a crowd of people getting "warmed up" before a 5k race.