Earlier this year, Rainman announced that he thought we should go to a B&B down here for our anniversary. He even looked on-line and found a few for me to look at. I told him I would research and see what I thought and see if we could figure out childcare. Back in Minnesota....we had family that we could farm the kids out to....or Rainman's mom would fly up from Chicago and stay with the kids.
Georgia is different. No family and friends that are busy with their own kids/jobs. However, we also have sort of old kids now. Rainman assured me that D-man and the other bigs could handle it. I absolutely trust my kids to babysit other people's children...but, for some reason, I was hesitant about their own flesh and blood. Ha!
Our biggest problem was finding time that would work. But, we found a itty bitty time slot right at our anniversary.
Last week, Rainman kept asking me....so...are we going or not? (Oops...I hadn't done anything) I looked on-line and found a little B&B south of Atlanta that I thought looked promising. I contacted the inn keeper and she had vacancies. So, we booked it. Talked to the kids. Figured out logistics of vehicles and which kid needed to be where and made sure D-man could handle it.
Rainman and I finally hit the road heading out about 4ish on Sunday afternoon. At about 4:30, my cell phone rang. It was D-man. We had forgotten to leave him keys for the van. Oops. So, we turned around and drove home...again. It was a lovely drive...both times.
We got to the town, followed our printed Mapquest directions that.....didn't take us to the B&B. Luckily, we had Rainman who has a brain for these types of things....we drove around a bit, looked at house numbers, he did some guess work, drove by many of the same houses 2 or 3 times, and....we found our place....after driving around town for about 20 minutes. (I would have just stopped and asked for directions at the fire station, but that is me...where is the fun in that, right?)
We dropped off our bags in our room and decided to go try to find someplace to eat. We were hungry.
But, that is the thing about small towns.....especially small towns in the south....lots of places are closed on Sundays. So, we drove and drove....nothing....not many restaurants...and the ones we found, were closed.
We finally decided to drive to a nearby larger town and see if we could find anything there. Then, we did the modern day problem solving technique (when you don't own a smart phone anyway)....we texted D-man and asked him to look on-line and see if he could actually find anything that was open and that looked good. He found us a place that sounded good, but we couldn't find it. Our car also doesn't have GPS either.
So, we resorted to the unthinkable....we actually called D-man on the phone, so he could describe the map to us on the phone. After a few false turns, we finally found this great little steak house in a strip mall by Rite Aid. Despite its very odd location, it was really good.
We didn't try to have any big talks or discuss big lists on this anniversary. We have done both of those before with mixed results. Sometimes it has been fantastic and sometimes we have spent money to be at a B&B only to be completely annoyed with each other and our time filled with awkward silences!
This time, we were just together. We just chatted about stuff we thought about. The kids. Work. My writing. Just chatting. No "discussions".
It was nice.
I think we both had a good time.
We loved our inn keeper, Jenny, (by the way - small world moment here - after I booked with Jenny, I was looking on-line at reviews and things and found one from a friend of mine from church - who it turned out had been friends with Jenny since kindergarten!) Rainman and I decided Jenny had a very interesting, adventurous life. Plus, she was super fun and super sweet.
She is also a caterer and has had some cool clients.
How you christen a room when you have been married for 19 years.....like this....LOL!
Jenny left us yummy chocolate cake for our anniversary. The frosting was like my mom's chocolate frosting. That thick kind that hardens. Yummmmmm......
The bathroom was spectacular. Although it took Rainman a minute to figure out how to flush the toilet. Apparently I have been in a lot more old houses than him because I coached him through what to look for from the hallway!
I was so excited about getting into this tub. So excited.....
There was even a music room, which, if we had had more time, I would have sat down and played the piano for a bit.
We sat outside on the porch for a bit. It had a comfy love seat and this cool lighting.
Jenny served us a beautiful and delicious breakfast, but apparently I am showing my age again, because I just.... ate it when it came.....and didn't remember that I should have taken a picture of it until I was almost done. It was far less pretty then. So, use your imagination....
Jenny even sat with us for a bit and chatted. We were in a hurry to get home because we had obligations and children waiting for us. But, it was good. It was really nice, just a bit more rushed than I would have liked.
If you are ever south of Atlanta, near Barnesville....check out the Rumble Seat Bed and Breakfast and say hi to Jenny. Tell her I sent you. She is awesome!
On a side note: Remember she is a caterer too and she also does cooking classes and not just regular, old cooking classes...check this out...
...she also does destination classes. Last year, she took a group to Tuscany for a week. See? Fun, adventurous life.
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