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Yesterday, I actually got away from the hotel and conference center a couple times. The first was to go out to lunch at The Vortex Bar & Grill. It was quite tasty, and since the company included Ney, Lynley, Cameron, Jordan, Kyrce, and Maureen, it was very entertaining. The most memorable moment was when Maureen was talking about the British version of What Not To Wear and how much better it is than the American one. I’ve been sitting here trying to figure out how to explain the event, but it just isn’t turning out right. Executive summary: Maureen tells a story, Courtney laughs so hard that chili goes up her nose. The rest of us didn’t quite get what was so funny. But that’s why we love Courtney… she’s always there to laugh whether it was actually funny or not. ;-)

After lunch, we decided to go shopping, sans Lynley, who had to chaperone two hundred kids on a field trip. We went to stores, and I bought stuff (see Figure 1, below).

Figure 1: The spoils of shopping

Then it was back to the conference center, evening session, bla bla bla. Afterwards, Jenni, Bill, and I decided to go out and get something to eat. It soon became very apparent that we are in the wrong part of Atlanta for cool restaurants and bars. The extent of things available was: Hard Rock Cafe (we tried - 45 min wait), Hooter’s (we tried this too… and we got a table… and nobody ever served us at all… for at least half an hour… so we left… at least I can cross "Go to Hooter’s" off my Things-To-Do-Before-I-Die list… not that it was on there to begin with), and McDonald’s (really long line… and not worth it). So after failing miserably at finding food, Jenni went back to her hotel and Bill and I came back to the Omni and ordered an expensive-but-tasty pizza.

Anybody got any suggestions for cool places to go that aren’t too far from Centennial Olympic Park? Because they would be mucho appreciated.

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