Day 2

On the second day of our vacation, we celebrated the actual birthday of Mr. GV! We had a full day planned, and after a breakfast of greens/tofu scramble, fruit, and muffins, we were off to spend a day in Atlanta!


But first, let me sneak a couple pictures from the night before. Every night at our B&B, we had a wonderful sweet snack prepared for us. The first night was blueberry pie. I don't think I have ever eaten blueberry pie before, but I plan to have it more often! The picture was taken on my cell phone, and does not do the pie justice at all.

After we got settled in our room, we came down for that yummy blueberry pie. And that's when I noticed the picture hanging in the kitchen.

I couldn't believe it was a picture of Creede, Colorado. It turns out our hosts lived near there for a while, and knew all about the town. That is the tiny town where my dad lived for a while when he was young, and the sole purpose of taking our cross country trip with my mom and him two years ago for daddy's 60th birthday. My dad was hospitalized with a serious case of pneumonia while we were in Durango and never made it out to visit Creede. Mr. GV and I went and brought him back some souvenirs, pictures, and video, but it was still a big disappointment to all of us that he never got to visit the town we girls had heard about our entire lives.

After breakfast, we got on our way. Our first stop was Cosmo's, a lovely vegan store. I told Mr. GV to shop his heart out since it was his birthday. He looked at the shirts but decided to just buy some of his favorite food products, which you can see in the picture. Oh, and I picked up a few things too.

After Cosmo's, we decided it was time for lunch, so headed to Green Sprout. There was much perusal of the menu, because we had so many choices!

I ordered wonton soup, which was great on a very chilly day in Atlanta.

This was an order of curry springrolls, and as you can see, I didn't even get a picture before they were scarfed down.

I had sesame chicken (remember, these dishes are all vegan) that came with a ton of broccoli.

Mr. GV had empire chicken, which was spicy.

After lunch, we wanted to go to a movie, but there just wasn't one in the area that was showing at a convenient time, so instead we went to Best Buy so the birthday boy could look at desktop computers.

One funny thing that happened---we were driving around, and Mr. GV says "Don't you remember this area?" I really didn't, until we passed by this odd little intersection. I said "Oh yeah, I remember that shopping center. There was a Jenny Craig and right next door was a Krispy Kreme Donut shop." It's been 14 years since we left Atlanta, and both shops have left, but the intersection brought back that memory. lol We used to laugh at that--- the thought of a weight loss business right beside a donut shop was hilarious to us!


Eventually it was time for dinner, and I knew just the place---Cafe Sunflower. Lunch had not been that long ago, but we wanted to get back to our B&B before it got too late. Those unfamiliar mountain roads are not a lot of fun after dark! We got to Cafe Sunflower right after it opened, and we had the entire place to ourselves. That was kind of fun. We decided to share a large appetizer and then just have dessert.

This is the Sunflower Box, which has potstickers, Sandy Spring rolls, basil rolls, hummus with pita and veggies, and a spaghetti squash cake with a creamy caper tofu coulis. It was all very good, but the squash cake knocked our socks off.

I mentioned to the waiter that we were here for Mr. GV's Big Round Birthday, and we were informed that a free slice of cake was ours! We chose the chocolate mousse cake, and it was soooo good.

Soon after, we headed back to Dahlonega. When we arrived at the B&B we found a chocolate cake waiting for Mr. GV's birthday, and we brought down the bottle of wine and asked our hosts to join us. We all toasted to Mr. GV and sat around the table drinking, talking, and eating. It was a great end to a great day!