I can't stay out of the Atlanta airport! I just can't get enough!
This time it was a direct flight from Grand Rapids to Atlanta, to go to a meeting for work.
I ubered directly to my meeting in the city, up in a pretty high rise, next to a pond with a waterfall, irises, and a blue heron.
After our meeting, we went to dinner at Culinary Dropout with an outdoor patio, and that was nice.
We then went to a new place - new to me and new to our group of 26!
Game Show Battle Room.
It was run in a big room by two people - a cheesy host and a guy running the audio and visual.
It combined different games - Family Feud, Blank Space, giant tic tac toe...and the Anderson Olympics!
Okay, they don't call it that, but years ago my mom and dad started a family Olympics at our house. Now many years later, I host it and it is A. Big. Deal. We do all sorts of activities, so when the host said the next games were bouncing pencils into a cup and flipping sand pails, I told my team, "I've been preparing my whole life for this."
The entire thing was so fun! Lights, music, and really enthusiastic team members made it even more of a blast!
We went to Jeni's Ice Cream afterward. I only had a small, but it was so filling that I had to walk around the hotel parking lot and skip breakfast the next morning!
We stayed at SpringHill Suites Perimeter Atlanta Center, and it was one million times nicer than the Super 8 Six Flags from my Africa trip. Please note a review written by someone else:
"Everything was horribly disgusting. I wish I could post photos that I took of the place. Please, tear down and rebuild. I do not recommend this hotel. The front desk person was sleeping on a sofa in the lobby."
Honestly SpringHill Suites was the exact opposite. Lovely, nice gym, nice little breakfast I didn't eat.
We spent the second day there in a meeting, and then when it was over, Jeanie, Zach, and I went for a walk around the pond. There was a spot where the sun was hitting another building and reflecting onto the ground. If you stood there, you felt like an ant under a microscope right before it sets on fire. It was amazing, this heat. Imagine the summer!
We ubered back to the airport, and Jeanie had accidentally gotten a sedan. No big deal at all, but we were packed very close together and the traffic was incredible. We had a hilarious, hour-long conversation, and it was one of my favorite moments of the trip. Yes! In a small car in the Atlanta traffic!
Zach suggested we use the international terminal to check in, since it would be less busy. Walking in was a completely different experience than seeing it on the Africa trip. Where there had been hundreds of stressed out people in multiple lines, there was...only the people working there.
My coworker and I had a later flight than everyone else, so we ate burgers and had milkshakes at Bobby's Burger Palace. It wasn't our first choice, as we sat at a different restaurant for awhile but no one waited on us, but it turned out to be a great one. And so I left the Atlanta airport for the third time this year...so far!
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