So this is how the weekend went down. We drove to Atlanta on Friday afternoon and barely made it in time for our reservation at our first stop - Woodfire Grill - a restaurant by a current Top Chef contestant. We didn't have time to go to the hotel first so I was in my comfy travel clothes which was a little of a bummer, but we still had a great meal! I did a blind chefs tasting, complete with scallops, oysters (yuk!), quail, and chocolate crepes. Ryan ordered off the menu so we would be guaranteed to have some dishes we knew we'd like - shrimp, scallops, steak & carrot cake. All in all, the food was great & the atmosphere was a lot of fun. This ended up being our best meal of the weekend...we highly recommend it!
When we left Woodfire Grill, we went to the St. Regis Buckhead to check-in. The hotel was BEAUTIFUL...check out our individual doorbell and beautiful balcony! When we checked in, they gave us a handout of some sort that had a picture of these pancakes that looked absolutely to die for so we ordered some room service on Saturday morning. $40 later, we had a great breakfast...and the pancakes were really that good!
After breakfast, we went back to sleep and didn't get up until 11am! What a treat for me! We then got ready and left for lunch at our second stop on our Tour, a burger place called Flip. It was such a beautiful day...we sat outside on the patio to eat and it was almost hot! Our lunch was great...in fact, we liked it so much we went back on Sunday with the whole fam!
Saturday afternoon we went shopping and found shoes for both of us! Ryan has been into this whole "barefooting" trend, which basically means you don't wear any shoes while working out. They've created these "shoes" (if you can call them that) that aren't really shoes...they are more like water socks...but they have more stability than socks so you can workout in them. They are really hard to find and we found a pair at our first stop in Atlanta! As Ryan said - all the more reason to move to Atlanta! We then headed over to Lenox Mall to look for me some cowboy boots. We found some (see below for pics!)...Happy Birthday to me!That night we went to our final stop - Craft. The owner & executive chef of Craft is a judge on Top Chef so we were really looking forward to this one! I had heard that there is usually a very long waiting list to get a reservation but luckily, we were able to get in. We had another good meal...not quite as good as Woodfire Grill...but still good. We decided that we aren't foodies yet...but it was fun to pretend like we were!
While we were away, Madison Claire was having fun with my family. It took her a little while to get comfortable with my dad...she's started having this stranger anxiety only with men lately...this of course makes Ryan really happy! He hopes that it sticks around until she is 21! When dad and Meredith first met us, Madison would not go to dad at all...she just cried and cried. She did the same thing all weekend with other males - my Uncle Dave, Ron Sewell, Ryan Fetz, etc.! Saturday morning dad got her up and fed her and she decided that anyone who would get her out of the bed & feed her couldn't be that bad! By the time we met up with them on Sunday she was loving him. Mom and Dad taught her how to play Patty Cake and it is quite precious. If you start singing the Patty Cake song, she will start clapping and the new part they taught her was to "throw it in the pan" which basically means throwing your arms up above your head. Like I said, precious.
My heart was full as we came home...with love for my sweet family (past & present)!
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