More on last Saturday

Noelle here... Eileen did a great job talking about our Saturday run but I wanted to add some of my thoughts.

I've lived in Atlanta all my life (with a few brief absences) and while I've always loved this place, but I've been appreciating it even more recently. Maybe it is the introspect of my advancing age or maybe it is the lens of my children, but I have been especially smitten with the ATL.

Saturday drove that point home for me. The weather was darn near perfect for running. We wove our way through Midtown and into the early morning bustle of Piedmont Park where half the town was also enjoying the weather and scenery. The other half of Atlanta hustled by us in the Komen walk for breast cancer while we were enjoying our coffee at Starbucks (my favorite sign said "squeeze your peaches!).

In an act of spontaneity supported by this wonderfully strange city, my family walked up to Peachtree Street and sat on the curb in front of the historic Fabulous Fox Theater and watched dozens of classic cars drive by, honking, waving, cheering, gunning engines (one even tossed out a handful of lollipops-- bliss for a three-year-old!) . The rest of the day, Eli told anyone who would listen about the cars he saw, fast ones and red ones, loud ones and shiny ones. Oh, yeah, and the one with the lollipops.

It was a morning to remember. Come run with us and see what Atlanta has to offer next week!