weekend "vacay"

CC recently mentioned that she would

like our family to take some mini vacations.

She said that we could call it

"weekend vacay"

and that it would be like a 

"preview"

of a real vacation.

Along those lines,

we took the kids to 

Atlanta

this weekend.

Lyons had received tickets

to see his favorite comedian,

Jeff Dunham,

and 

we decided to make a 

"weekend vacay"

out of it.  

John and CC

would join us.

They would see

Cavalia

and

we'd stay at

The Omni Hotel.

Sometimes...

I just forget ~

what an amazing city

Atlanta is.

We checked into the hotel

and stepped out on our balcony 

overlooking 

Centennial Olympic Park.

The cityscape

was breathtaking.

I felt like I was a million miles from home.

We shopped at Lenox,
dined at Dantanna's,
and toured the CNN Center.

Dunham was hysterical.

Lyons & I laughed and laughed.

(Which, for the record,

is waaay better

than yelling about homework.)

John & Carolyn

looooved 

Cavalia.

John said it was the best production

he has ever seen 

of any kind.

gyantunplugged.com

When we returned to our room that evening,

the sight from our balcony

was even more dazzling.

It may have been only 24 hours, 

but a

"weekend vacay"

turned out to be

just what

this family needed.