So as I was saying, the next day was Wednesday....first we head out to a local mall to do a little shopping, and all is going well until....I run across a pet store that sells college football merchandise. My boys wearing Notre Dame collars! Suffice to say, after dropping around $115, Kim pushed me out the front door towards the exit. After that we start the drive towards downtown--and its really a beautiful drive. The rolling hills and and older houses along the drive really make for nice viewing.
So as our time is slipping by, we decide to look for lunch. Easier said than done. We park the car---oh, and by the way, there are ZERO free parking spots in Atlanta---and get out looking for the restaurant we'd chosen....and we can't find it. So we decide to keep going, and we stumble upon the restaurant with the greatest name in the history of restaurants:
Gladys Knight's......"Chicken & Waffles".
We walk into the restaurant, and we're the only white folks in the joint. Hey, sometimes you need to go to the hood for some quality southern cooking! Kim and I both get the smothered chicken, Andy continues his new found obsession with fried chicken.....and Kellie is busy obsessing about whether or not she's going to put on weight and have to go to a new weight class in the tournament (weigh in's were later). After lunch we went back down into the heart of the city and did the tour of CNN. During the tour, they did a mock newscast to show everyone how they did the tele-prompter, etc.....and who got chosen to be the newscaster? Our very own Kellie Poe-Bowdren....after a slight prompting (Cough, cough---"push") from her mom. She had a lot of fun and enjoyed (I know this is going to shock you) being the center of attention. Later that evening we took the kids, at Kellie's urging, to a Mexican place for dinner. No BBQ. I was going through withdrawls.
Later,
Jeff
Tomorrow--the competition begins....what happens to the kids?
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