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London festivities!

September 12, 2018

On Friday night, the bride (who is Indian) and groom hosted an Indian blessing ceremony and Sangeet. My friends and I decided at the last minute to dress in traditional Indian dress and I’m so glad we did! What fun!! I got my outfit in on an adventurous one day trip with my mom to visit the Global Mall – an all Indian mall right outside of Atlanta. Who knew?! I couldn’t convince Robert to wear traditional dress but he did get a bright new tie. I’ll take it!

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indian

It was fantastic seeing all of the guests dressed in their Indian finery. Lots of bright colors and beautiful fabrics!

indian blessing ceremony

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blessing

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london

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london

The blessing ceremony was just lovely. It started with the bride and groom feeding each other cake so they will always be “sweet” to each other. How sweet indeed!

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After the ceremony it was party time – and they knew how to party! Fantastic food, great music, even Henna!

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london

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Truly the MOST fun night!! So glad we got to be a part of it and celebrate Frank and Jules!

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Jolly old England

September 11, 2018

Back in July, Robert and I took the most fun trip to the other side of the pond! We went to London for the wedding of one of my childhood friends and lived it up! Thanks to GJ and Daddo, we even flew over in style! First class all the way!

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london

We made it with no problems – because we drove to Atlanta that day to catch our flight instead of sitting in the Birmingham airport waiting for that leg to be cancelled! We even stood in the customs line behind Keira Knightly when we arrived! Fun! To fight off the jet lag, we just decided to keep going for the day and made our way over to the London Eye where we met up with Jeff and Erin…

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london

london

We then got settled into the hotel and headed out to an early dinner…

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We had dinner at Sexy Fish and it was excellent!

sexy fish

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We got up the next day and had the breakfast of my dreams next to an open window with temps in the low 70s. Basically perfect.

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We then headed over to see the Queen. Sadly, she missed our appointment but I waved at her anyway and then toured the state rooms of her palace and also checked out the Mews.

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mews

We then headed over to Sketch for tea. It was quite the experience!! Scones and tea sandwiches and caviar! and eggs for bathrooms! Robert was a very good sport. πŸ™‚

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sketch

That afternoon we decided to head over to the Tower of London to see the Crown Jewels. They were pretty but, man, it was HOT outside and all the lines were outside. In fact, our whole trip to London was HOT! But, at least it wasn’t raining!

london

london

That night we met up with my other AR friends for dinner at The Social and had another excellent meal.

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london

london

After dinner we finally got to see the Groom to be, Frank!

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Friday brought some good shopping, down time, and lunch with my college friend, Kelly.

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Fun all around – but the real fun was just beginning! More to come!

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Lake Life

September 7, 2018

Over the Labor Day weekend we were lucky enough to get to go to Lake Martin with some friends. They have 2 girls similar ages to our kids and everyone got along great. These are the same friends we went to the beach with last year! It was just the very best, most BEAUTIFUL weekend on the lake! Boating, tubing, catching minnows, swimming, floating, good time with friends…does not get better than that!! Lots of pics…

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lake

She loved the tube! (not as much as her brothers did but she loved it!)

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lake

Lunch and snow cones at The Landing…

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landing

and the tired boat ride home! ha!

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Afternoon tubing!

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Dinner at Kowliga…

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“Don’t get wet before dinner, Spencer!”

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lake

The sign of a good weekend? Kids that look like this 10 minutes into the drive home…

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Loving that lake life!

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Yes, more naples

July 16, 2018

Happy Monday! You didn’t think the Naples posts were done, did you?! Nope, there’s more! Some other fun things we did…

Trips to the beach club…

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Swimming with cousins…

swim

We saw a turtle!

turtle

We bounced!

bounce

We got lots of good rest (swimming wears you out)…

rest

and we biked around the neighborhood!

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biking

Mostly, we hung out with our favorites, GJ and Daddo, who were so nice to put up with us!

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GJ

We had lots and lots of good fun, that’s for sure.

naples

Sadly, all good things must come to an end. On July 4th, we put on our red, white, and blue and made our way home with no problems.

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red white blue

Ready to go back again!

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Beaching it

July 13, 2018

It was so hot in Naples that we really didn’t make the effort to go to the beach much. But, once Robert got into town we had to get our feet in the sand! We tried to go early before it got too hot and that was the right strategy. The kids loved it as always – building sand castles and swimming in the ocean!

Beach day one…

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beach

and beach day two…

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beach

Wish I was looking out at the ocean right now! At least it’s Friday…but Friday the 13th! eek!

Make it a great weekend!

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