We drove in to Atlanta today. It's my great-aunt's birthday and she has been living in an old-folks home. Damn, it sucks. I felt horrible there. Just take me out to fucking pasture and put a bullet in my head before it gets to that point.
Anyway, we met my parents and my aunt and grandmother there as well. Four generations of family with Pete and RePete, both of whom went with us. That's my dad with Pete on his lap. I decided to do without the camera today and just took my phone instead.
After we hung out there for a while we went to have lunch at the Fridays just south of Peachtree Battle. Man, that area has changed. I used to live right behind the Benihanas there on Peachtree and there really wasn't a lot to do in that immediate area. It was actually pretty nasty. Just north of there was Peachtree Battle shopping center and some really nice neighborhoods and south of there (really south of Piedmont Hospital) there are lots of shops and places to eat but there wasn't really anything but condemned buildings and whatnot in the area I lived. That sure has changed. New highrises and shopping centers, plenty of places to eat...I think that the Friday's we ate it is right where a Happy Store used to sit, if I recall. It's been about 24 years, so things are a bit fuzzy.
It sure was nice seeing everybody though. I wish I could get more weekends off so we could get into town and see them a bit more often.
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