Atlanta

We spent the weekend in Atlanta celebrating Lon's mom's 90th birthday. The entire family was there: five sons, four daughter-in-laws, ten grandchildren with seven spouses/fiancees/significant others, and two great-grandchildren (with one more on the way). Atlanta was a great central location with easy airline connections for family coming in from thirteen different states. (Let's see if I can get them all: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia. This week we can add Maryland to the list!)

All of us in one room.

Saturday, we all went to Turner Field to see the Braves play (and lose to) the Colorado Rockies.

On our way to the Midtown Marta station.

Turner Field

Having a good time at the game.

More of Atlanta:

Across the street from our hotel was a very small urban vineyard.

We haven't had a full family photo since the Taj Mahal in September 2014. Amos wasn't cooperating!

On Sunday we spent the afternoon at the spectacular Georgia Aquarium.

The large ocean tank is the main attraction. You can spend hours watching the fish. (It's no surprise that one of the very first computer screen savers was an aquarium simulation.)

A variety of rays are in the tank.

The main attraction, though, are the enormous whale sharks.

A variety of jellyfish were also fascinating.