We made sure to get everyone to bed by 9:30 the night before and got up at 6. We loaded and some had a bowl of cereal for breakfast (Tim did not because he was playing video games). We were planning to leave by 7:00, but Sariah had a fight with Tim about seating and she was so emotional that she had a meltdown. This delay cost us around 20 minutes and Amber, Weston and Kelly were there for every minute of the ordeal. This information is being added to keep the day real…she was able to finally get in her seat and buckled after Dad put his foot down.
The entire western portion of North Carolina was rainy and in the low 70s, which made everything more picturesque. We made our way on country roads for 30 minutes and then got Interstate-40 for less than 10 miles before heading south again on a state highway to reach I-85. We were on this only a few miles in North Carolina before reaching South Carolina. Rolling hills and lighter traffic made all of western Carolinas our favorite part of the driving trip.
We made a nice 15-minute stop at Abbott’s Farm Outlet Peaches for Solinda. She absolutely loved their peach cider and we purchased some. She also purchased a jar of peach jelly for her father, Gary, and some strawberry licorice. Back in the Dodge Caravan and onto a 3-hour stop some outlet stores in Georgia.
We got lots of good deals on backpacks, clothing, shoes and socks and then headed over to the Country Pride restaurant for breakfast during lunch – of course it had some southern style to it. The waitress was a wonderful southern grandma and really doted on us as it wasn’t very busy and she like our family. We ended with a stop at Wal-Mart for fruits and breakfast foods for the evening and early morning without a car.
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Atlanta traffic was very heavy going into the city and our toll pass covered us and saved at least 45 minutes! We got into downtown and we were so happy to pick up Sariah and Solinda’s dresses at the downtown Quality Inn from a full two weeks earlier (Solinda had called ahead several days earlier to verify and they had located them still in that room). We checked into a much nicer Quality Inn at the convention center and got a room on the sixth floor overlooking the airport and runways. Sariah really loved the view. We drove around the airport for not even five minutes to turn the van in, and then caught our shuttle back to the hotel. Laundry, organizing luggage and dinner rounded out the evening with lights out around 7:45 for an early morning. A big thunderstorm rolled across all of Atlanta and the airport and we had a romantic, relaxing view of it all with our kids in the background.
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