Our Weekend

What do those look like? Purple sausages? Try potatoes. We walked to the Farmer's Market on Saturday morning here in Carrollton. I (Lauren) have been looking forward to going for some time but we have not been around on a Saturday until this weekend. The above potatoes are purple skinned fingerlings (AKA peruvians). I have seen them before but did not want to pay the price...well, these babies were only $1/lb from a very nice organic farmer. Amazing price and beautiful, as well. Even the starch was purple, as my white bar towel is now testimony! We roasted them but I would really like to try them in a potato salad with a mustard vinagarette. Next time...

Saturday afternoon, we went to the Atlanta Braves game. We met Krista (L's stepsister), Adam (Krista's husband), Jenna (Adam's sister), and Sharon (Adam's mom) there. A fun time. A bad game, a horrible game (as far as the Braves go)--but a great day.

A view of the skyline from our seats. A ginormous jumbo-tron in centerfield. Behind it is downtown Atlanta. Georgia State is down in the mix of all that--yep, that's the fun Lauren gets to have three-to-four times a week. The gold dome is the state capitol. Directly to the right is the torch from the Olympics. Also, in the middle of the picture is a blue wall--that is the old Fulton County Stadium--and in the middle of the wall is a white dot--that is the Henry Aaron 715 landmark that we have a pic. of from a few weeks ago.

All of those flags are pennants. See how many they have, including one red one--for a World Series Championship? Do you know how many the Rangers have? A few less. Oh well--as you can see from the picture above, I still support my Rangers.

A pre-game radio show going on with Mark Lemke (old second baseman from the Braves playoff runs) and, I think maybe, Chip Caray.

A picture of home plate from centerfield.

The Braves got a grand total of two hits. Probably would have just been better for them to have not gotten any--then we could have seen a no-hitter. But the Mets beat up on them. I am kind of a Met fan--so that's good, I guess. But, the Braves put on a poor showing--much to the chagrin of Adam.

We saw John Smoltz driving his car away from the game in a neighborhood as we were leaving and taking a short-cut back to the interstate.

On the way back to Carrollton, we all ate at Gumbeaux's. We had some shrimp etoufee, red beans and rice, fried crab cakes, and crawfish po boy all around the table. I'm telling you what--if you are in Douglasville, GA and want some cajun food--this place is awesome.

Hope you are enjoying your Labor Day weekend--we sure have.

--b&l