Friday June 20th, was a busy and exciting day! We took off work and headed to our little intimate marriage ceremony in downtown Lawrenceville after getting our license at the courthouse & sealed our nuptials with a kiss! Hooray. I'm offically a Mann now :) Then immediately after we had a doctors appointment right up the street at 2pm. We quickly rushed over there in time for our sonogram and checkup. This was the anatomy evaluation to make sure he was growing properly and no visual deformities to worry about. We had already been to Storkvision so we knew that it was a boy and nothing seemed to look unusual or out of place but he had grown 3 more weeks since then and anything was possible so we were anxious to take another peek. We were blessed that all looked good on the screen and measurments matched up to the current expected due date Nov 3rd-5th. He is about 13 oz (almost a pound) and still uses his arm to cover his eyes when he's being looked at on the ultrasound as well as a wiggle worm in there. He flipped completely over in the middle of the session and we learned he is breech. Come on baby turn around in the coming months!! We have another quick home video of it on our Youtube channel. He looks like he already has big feet and long legs so no wonder I have been feeling those flutter kicks in my lower abdomen. Then after all the "everything looks a-okay" from the doctors, we headed downtown Atlanta for an evening at the Sundial as well as an overnight visit at the Westin to celebrate our new union and good news! The next morning we got up early and headed to Chattanooga for a small out of town getaway for more celebrating together. We stayed downtown on Chestnut Street with walking distance to local places. Since we just missed the Blue Moon cruise when we got up there right after 11am, we decided to have an early lunch at the Boathouse on the Tennessee River. With a full belly, we headed up to the infamous Ruby Falls. An indoor cavern with a waterfall located 1100 feet underneath the surface of Lookout Mountain discovered many years ago. They added a light show to music once you reach it after a 1/2 mile of walking through many unusual rock formations on the way. You get paired up with a large group of other visitors and all take the tour together. After waiting in line, you all take an elevator down to the very bottom and have a tour guide throughout the way. Once finished we headed back downtown and eventually to dinner at Bluewater for some seafood. Joe was so upset they completely ran out of dessert that night. Luckily I bought some rock candy, jawbreaker lollipop and sour jelly beans at Ruby Falls to hold over our sweet tooth. HA! While looking up coupons of more touristy things to do around town, we came across an ad for ghost tour that offered a ghost hunt. Oh my goodness, we both took one minute of laughing together and decided, "we need to do this" I mean how many other newlywed couples do you know go on a hunt for ghosts "ummm none" Exactly! We show up at the Read House down from our hotel at 9:30pm to meet up with our group. We are too shy to admit that's what we are there for so we wait around the corner until we are sure that is what everyone else is there for. I mean we didn't want to embarrass ourselves and ask strangers "Sooo you here for a ghost hunt too" and look ridiculous. Luckily they were all there for the same thing. The guide gave us some ghost monitor contraptions and told us about an app that was the most entertaining of them all called, Ghost Radar Classic" to download. It will tell you if a ghost is in the area and will shoot out one word at a time. Those words are supposed to be clues to what ghost is around you. We didn't realize til the next day driving 70 mph down I-75 that it might be false when we had a hit on our radar except it did say "Columbus" which is a city in GA. Either way, it seemed hilarious. I was only slightly weirded out by the fact we kept using the app for entertainment when we got home and I jokingly said "how weird would it be if it said the name of a dead relative" It wasn't a few minutes later that it said "Alice" and that was the name of my great aunt who my mom took care of until she passed away. She lived with my grandma Helen when my Papa Joe passed away. So we were close to her growing up and visited her often. It was the first time it said a real name. Oooooo!!! It was almost as ironic as the couple we ran into at Lenox mall, on our way back from Chattanooga. We had to stop downtown Atlanta and pick up a rug at Pottery Barn Kids for the nursery. As we were lugging it out and headed back towards the valet, we stopped in Sperry right by the exit. Joe wanted to look at dress shoes real quick for work. I turn around after a few minutes of shopping in there and a Spanish lady looks at us and says "hi" with a shy timid "I think we know each other" greeting. I kept wondering how I knew her. Then Joe and I at the same time realized it was her and her husband from Ruby Falls, they were in our group from the day before. We even had to tell the sales associate "oh my gosh, speaking of what we did this weekend, they were there too!!" So of all the people in a location 2 hours away at a mall, at the same store, and same time of day...for them to be there flipped us out. Just another one of the wacky coincidences we have encountered again. Also, I am sure it won't be the last in our lifetime together!! To be continued....lol. So the only other thing I left out from the busy weekend before I got sidetracked on the other stories was the stop at the annual Chattanooga Market Festival. So right before we headed back to Atlanta, they have a food festival mixed in with arts and crafts plus produce stands all in one downtown. We got there when it first opened at 11am. We enjoyed a little taste of everything from cinnamon peanuts, BBQ, hotdog, sweet tea, frozen lemonade, samples of pimento cheese and chicken salad to purchases of frozen dinners and homemade keylime and Italian creme cake slices. A few rows over we came across a lady who hand sews on character appliques to onesies. We got 3 of them for Baby Mann in sizes 3-6 and 6-12 months of Superman, Yoda, and Captain America (our soon to be lil superhero!)And before leaving, kept eyeing a pop up wooden store. It was a Rustic Country hand crafter who makes pictures, frames, bird houses and other nicknacks for a southern or western theme decor. We found the perfect wedding present to ship to Texas for Coy and Sandi's upcoming wedding in Blanco over the 4th of July!! Can't wait for that too...excited to see everyone again soon!!
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