Sorry we haven’t posted in a while but we’ve been so very BUSY. Alright, I’ll start with the Atlanta trip and Adiel will continue with Shavuous.
The story is like this: we have some old family friends from the LES that moved to Atlanta. Our families were very close and Adiel and I also spent a shabbos there when we visited Mom for Thanksgiving. Now they were making a Shabbos Bar Mitzvah but none of us thought we’d go. Then Mommy had to go to Chicago and found a very good rate on travelocity’s last minute deals. So she told me I should keep checking and there was something really cheap, she’d pay for one of our tickets. I checked every night but didn’t see anything. Than, as a last try, I checked Wednesday. And I found a very good deal. It was like $145 a person plus a free rental car. After deliberating about the craziness of leaving the NEXT day, missing work, and figuring out all the logisitics, I booked three tickets for us and my brother. After I booked the fare, a little man popped up which said “I love being spontaneous too”. 
. So we packed in an hour the next day and were on our way.
Thursday night we went to SR for pizza dinner and left our car there (since she has a driveway and is close to LaGuardia and JFK, she becomes the local parking garage whenever someone in the family flies somewhere). Then, her husband drove us to the airport, where we got frisked on maximum security because we had booked it last minute. Otherwise everything was uneventful. As the flight landed at around midnight, we decided to book a couple of hotel rooms on Priceline ($31) so we got a decent night’s sleep. Turns out the hotel was close to the Jewish community.
The next day, we dropped Aharon off at a Beis Medrash, picked up some bagels (all the restaurants and pizza stores don’t open till 11, so we bought from the cute and somewhat yeshivish kosher supermarket), and drove to Marietta. There we surprised Mom and spent the afternoon with her. Then we drove back and got ready for Shabbos.
The Bar Mitzvah was beautiful. Mrs. W cooked EVERYTHING for all 40+ people that came. THere were a number of East Siders and other NYers that flew in and it was nice seeing everyone. The Bar Mitzvah boy lained beautifully and there was a nice positive vibe going the whole shabbos. The guests ranged in age, religious type and gender, but we were all there because we love the W’s. It was a wonderful Shabbos and we were very happy to have gone, even so last minute. We also spent some time walking through Atlanta which is very pretty but also hilly so I don’t think i’d want to live there….
Motzai Shabbos we drove around and got some Pizza in the local PIzza store. The boys had eaten deli for Shalosh Seudos, so were stuck eating fries, but I was smart and left myself milchigs. We left early early Sunday morning and got very little sleep Motzai Shabbos. But we didn’t have much time to catch up on sleep as the very next day, we were going away for Shavuous…
OK, honey, your turn.
Wait, when did you go to Atlanta, just this past Shabbos?
Wow, I see you did some catching up with your posts, Batya!
This was not this past shabbos but the one before — we’re just behind in recapping.
You guys are great! As spontaneous as ever.