Vacation: Day 4 & 5

Uncle Paul and Homer (the Huntsville Star's mascot)

Uncle Paul and Adam enjoying the 2010 AA MiLB All-Star game

Day 4 -
Spent a nice morning just relaxing around Uncle Paul's house. In the afternoon we took a drive on Uncle Paul's new golf cart and came back to enjoy a nice late lunch of burgers from Uncle Paul's new grill. Then we got ready and headed to Huntsville, Alabama, for the Double-A All-Star game. The Smokies were blessed with having six players elected the team with nine being nominated. Adam spent a few short minutes "working" by taking pictures. After the game, we headed off to the "after-party" and enjoyed a nice meal with some of the other front office staff and their families. With returning back to Uncle Paul's at two in the morning, we uploaded a few pictures and then headed to bed.

Day 5 -
Nothing too special about today, except for the fact that we are home for the first time in 5 days. Oliver did not destroy the house and was extremely happy to see us both. We enjoyed a pizza from Papa Murphy's and now we are enjoying the MLB All-Star game!

Tomorrow is back to the normal life of work and Smokies!

Our engagement!

On Saturday, July 10th, 2010, we became an engaged couple!
The day was so beautiful and the proposal is something that we will remember forever.
We started our day with breakfast and a nap. Around 11:30 a.m., we headed downtown to go visit the World of Coca-Cola. After visiting the World of Coca-Cola, we walked through the Olympic Park, by the CNN tower and to the Underground (which is a giant mall under the road). On the way back to the car, we walked through Olympic Park one more time to look at a few things that we missed.
Right before we left, Adam pulled me towards this beautiful garden under the shade and asked to put the water bottle in the backpack. After putting the water bottle in the backpack, he turned me around and hugged me. Then he asked me to marry him, where I kindly asked him if he was serious. Then I said, "YES!"

Vacation: Day 3

Today was a long day of driving! But we had a wonderful time being together. We drove from Atlanta to Chattanooga and did some great sight seeing there. We drove up to Point Park at Lookout Mountain. See the beautiful pictures below.



From Chattanooga we drove to Mount Pleasant, Tennessee to visit with Uncle Paul. It is so nice to spend some time with family for a while. We enjoyed a wonderful meal and then some nice pool time.
Tomorrow has some wonderful events in store for us!

Vacation: Day 2

Today was another amazing day. We went into downtown Atlanta and did some tourist things. First on our stops was The World of Coca-Cola. It gave us insight on how Coke is marketed and viewed all over the world. First, on the tour was a look at some of Coke's world-wide marketing campaigns from years past. Featured was a syrup bowl from 1857. Next we went into a "movie theater" and saw a 6-minute commercial featuring some of Coke's new characters. As we were exiting the theater, we saw a 7-foot polar bear (which was very awesome to see). We both got our pictures with the polar bear (See below). His facial expressions not only amused the kids there, but Adam was in awe too.

We saw a 4-D movie called "In Search of the Secret Formula." It was a 3-D movie where the seats moved with the movie, we were hit with blasts of air and sprayed with water too.
After we tasted several different types of Coca-Cola from all over the world, we crossed the street to the Centennial Olympic Park. Throughout the park were statues and monuments dedicated to the athletes who competed in the 100th Summer Olympic Games in 1996. At the center of the park the city placed in the cement the 6 Olympic rings, and then they had jets of water coming out of the ground. There were so many children, and even adults, playing in the jets. Looked like fun, but we didn't go through the water.
We then took a drive over to Turner Field, which was also were they hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1996 Olympic Games. We walked through the outside of the stadium, looking at the statues of Warren Span, Hank Aaron and Phil Niekro. We even stood in the place where "Hammerin' Hank" hit his 715th home run. It was hit in the former home of the Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Fulton County Stadium, that was right across the street from Turner Field. They commemorated the the former home with bricks placed where the actual baseball field was. And they still have the fence, and the wall where "Hammerin' Hank" hit that historic home run.

Vacation: Day 1

The drive down was very peaceful. We left around 8:30 and arrived down at 11:30. It was a very scenic drive with all of the mountains, minus lack of cell reception, we enjoyed ourselves.
We checked into our hotel and then headed off to Six Flags Over Georgia. It was hot, but it was nice enough to enjoy the sun! We rode all of the large roller coasters that they had to offer. We spent 5 hours there and enjoyed every minute!
We came home and cleaned up before heading out to dinner at Ruby Tuesday's and dessert at Sonic. There was a huge storm that came through, but it was nice.
Tomorrow is another day in Atlanta, Georgia....we plan on doing some tourist things in downtown.