As Aimee and I sit here, in the laziness of a Saturday afternoon, we’re thankful for the recent opportunities to visit with our friends, old and new. Despite the fact that we’re both not feeling great but oh well.
Last weekend Michael and Joanna came down from Chicago for a great visit. We hung out, had some delicious food, and enjoyed catching up. We ate dinner Saturday night at Wisteria and enjoyed their “new Southern” cuisine which was followed by some game playing and wine. Turns out (a) Joanna and I are particularly unremarkable at Scrabble and (b) exclaiming “Plum!” during Clue when discretely shown a picture of the Professor is not strategically sound.
In our first touristy outing, we went to the CNN Studio Tour. It was pretty good actually though it felt somewhat ephemeral, like we were just scratching the surface the entire time.
Michael and Joanna joined us at IHM for mass (it was nice to look up from the piano and see Michael in the choir, just like when Meg and Katie were here) and then we got to try a new Italian restaurant with the group: Nino’s on the Cheshire Bridge.
On to some new friends… we hosted our neighbor Megan, her boyfriend and their dog Piper for wine and cheese on Friday night. It was Crowley’s first “play date” and it’s nice to know some more people in our building. Then this morning we had brunch at Rosebud with Katherine and her husband Beto from IHM.
Lastly, a couple quick observations of a Chicagoan living in the South. First, for all the complaining about Atlanta traffic, I grabbed these screenshots of the Atlanta Journal Constitution and Chicago Tribune on the same day:
Second, while working from home last Friday after the snow storm, I happened to notice this industrious example of snow removal and had to video it.
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