Cliff and I drove up to Atlanta for Easter to see my family and to celebrate Mick's 17th birthday. Cliff hadn't been up there since October and I hadn't seen my Dad since Thanksgiving so we figured a trip to the ATL was due.
On the drive up (which is about 6 hrs or so,) we listened to all of the Beatles albums from "Hard Day's Night" to "Let it Be" and "Abbey Road." I've always had a casual interest in the Beatles but I don't know if I would ever have included them in my list of favorite bands. My parents never put them up there with "Led Zeppelin" as I was growing up but I've always been familiar with the majority of their songs. My passive interest in them has changed over the past few weeks though... and yes probably at least partially due to American Idol... whatever works I guess... MY POINT though, is that they have a lot of good songs! I think I had kind of taken it for granted how many songs I really really liked! Not only do I like to listen to "Got to Get You in to My Life" and "Carry That Weight," but I love to sing along with them too. My throat was getting sore by the time we got to my parents' house! I really like that Cliff loves to sing so much because it is contagious. I never used to sing at all - especially not in public. Cliff and the Beatles have changed a lot of that :) We had a great time driving up to Atlanta.
We had a pretty good time while we were there too. It's always a little disappointing to visit my old stomping ground as no one lives there any more and we are always too pressed for time to visit my few friends are still in the area. It was great, though, to spend some time with the fam and we got to go to the Temple with my mom and out to eat at the Flying Biscuit with Mick and Dad. Speaking of the Beatles again, we got my brother Revolver and Abbey Road for his birthday. He too has recently rediscovered the Beatles. Seth and Sarah came over to see us and Cliff had Jey and Geoff over too and that was fun. Cliff never gets to see his college friends anymore so I was glad they could stop by. Sarah is going to find out the sex of their baby pretty soon which is exciting. I feel like everyone and their mother is pregnant right now... but not us yet! We have to wait until we get to Japan ;)
Anyway... we will probably only visit Atlanta one more time before we move and then it could be the last time we are there for the next three years. That is really weird to think about. It's a little ironic because as I was growing up I never really though I would move out of Georgia - I mean I wasn't ever against the idea, I just didn't know if it would happen - and now... as long as Cliff is in the Navy we won't EVER live in Georgia :) It's funny how life works...
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