Welcome to Atlanta- Part I

Finally! I finally made the trek down to Atlanta to see my roommate from college. It was way overdue! Jillian and I took advantage of  the long Labor Day weekend and jetted off to see Mish! Apparently we chose a good weekend to go to Atlanta, there was a lot going on that weekend and we got to take it all in. Here's the scoop from our wild and crazy trip to the ATL.

Once we officially arrived in Atlanta we took the Marta to Buckhead where our friend lives. I'm pretty sure we were talking during our 30 min trip on the Marta, but I was too preoccupied with people watching to pay attention to our conversation. We were also feeling the need to take a shower after our "festive" trip on the Marta. Since we had some time to kill until our friend got off of work we thought we'd take a stroll to the mall. Our stroll to the mall turned into a hike that led us to Target which in turn caused us to take a cab back to our friend's apartment. There was no way we were going to take our shopping bags and booze on a hike back to her place in that heat. Yeah, that was a $10 cab ride, but well worth it!

For our first night in Atlanta Mish took us to a fun bar/ restaurant near her place called the Tavern at Phipps. We're not even there for 10 minutes and I encounter a cling-on, we named him "Abu" (he doesn't know that). I got Abu's whole life story... how's he divorced, has college-aged kids, knows people here in NC, blah, blah, blah. Every time I thought I got rid of him there was a little tap on my shoulder from Abu wanting to have a little chit chat about he could get us in to swanky clubs and gave me his business card. Being the little sneaky girl that I am, I managed to snag a photo of Abu without his knowledge.

Hey Abu! Long day at the office?

Melissa, Jillian and I at the Tavern at Phipps

We also saw Michael Bolton's twin brother performing at the Tavern. He had dual keyboards and I can't even describe as to how entertaining it was.

Michael Bolton 2.0 singing "The World is Mine"

Later that evening while we're sitting at a bar Mish says, "Oh I need to take y'all to the Clermont Lounge... it's where strippers go to die." Turns out the Clermont Lounge is in a basement of some hotel and it has old ladies that work there. Only later on she says, "I have a better place to take you." Yeah, she took us to Slingin' Richards. I'll just sum up our evening in a few sentences. Jillian met Gemini. I got hit on by "black thunder" and I'm pretty sure I had a scared look on my face. As we were leaving Jillian says, "we need some Jesus for what we just saw" to which valet says to us, " there's not enough Jesus for what you saw!"

Friday was just the tip of the iceberg, the rest of the weekend got more insane! Stay tuned for Welcome to ATL- Part II...