A weekend in Atlanta

Posted on June 20, 2013 by Keanen

Last weekend I had asked the kids to name a few places they would like to visit in the upcoming week. Elizabeth responded, “Georgia”. I thought this was kind of funny because I was already going to be there for work but agreed knowing that there is plenty to do in the Atlanta area.Â So, Carolyn and the kids flew down on Thursday evening to join me. They had a little adventure going through Milwaukee to get there and when they landed there were some pretty ugly storms approaching. It made for an interesting arrival but we got them safely to the hotel.

On Friday we went to the Atlanta Aquarium, followed by the World of Coke, and finally a CNN tour. We enjoyed all of them. The Aquarium was my favorite and of course the kids REALLY liked tasting all of the soda flavors available at the end of the Coke visit. The most disgusting flavor was from Italy – ick!!

We started Saturday with the Waffle House and went to Zoo Atlanta. This was Carolyn’s favorite visit as we watched various monkeys and gorillas. In addition, we saw elephants, zebras, and giraffes. We were only about 20% through the zoo when Carolyn took a bad step and hurt her foot. This abruptly ended our zoo tour and our trip. After picking up some crutches and getting help from the airport courtesy people we made it home safely and were able to get Carolyn settled in. Good memories for the kids and a interesting story with the foot 🙂

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The aquarium is amazing!

This exhibit reminded me of Hawaii. It was fun to point out all the fish we had seen when snorkeling last fall

Joey loved all the living creatures that he could touch

The kids were crabby when they saw the crabs…

The Coke Bear

With one of the London Olympic Torches

The next generation of news anchors?

We ended the day with a purchase of some new t-shirts and a swim at the hotel pool

On Saturday we went to Zoo Atlanta

The zoo was wonderful!

This guy had something stuck in his teeth. Crazy tongue action

The last picture of Carolyn on her own two feet 🙁

Carolyn at home on Sunday with a hurting foot

Elizabeth’s 4th Grade volcano project

Posted on June 4, 2013 by Keanen

Elizabeth teamed up with Ella and Ruby on a volcano project and “the Dads” were put in charge of this project by our spouses. Kyle coordinated so that we could get the project going, Matt encouraged the girls to be creative, and I looked for the most explosive eruption which was Mentos and Diet Coke instead of the baking powder solution 🙂

The girls did a great job! They were very creative with all of the details of pine and palm trees, painting, water, and dinosaurs.

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During the build

Video

Post eruption at school

Creating the foundation

Getting messy

Test eruption’ – We doubled the Mentos for the real one 🙂

The finished product

Congrats to Nix and Jenny

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Keanen

Nix and Jenny were married this past weekend in a beautiful setting in the caves located in downtown Stillwater. We are all very excited to have Jenny in our family. Lots of fun with friends and family. Sunday was a little rough 🙂 Enjoy your honeymoon!!

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