6-9-18  Josh's 44th birthday!

Celebration time again.  This time it's Josh's birthday.  I was thinking about that the other day and realized he'll be my age when Layla graduates from high school!  I can't imagine having a teenager now!  But I can't imagine not having any kids, either!
For his birthday lunch, he wanted to go to The Rookery in Macon.   Sounded good to me!  I've only been to Macon once and it seems like a pretty neat "city".
Love the small town feel of the old downtown area.

 Lots of landscaping.

 and lots of green space.

 as well as lots of historic old buildings.

 even the alleyways are interesting in their own bazaar way.

 Love the visitors' center building.  Macon is the home of many musicians---including The Allman Brothers and one of the kids' favorites-Otis Redding.

 The kids are huge music fans.  So whenever they get the chance, they like to pop into record stores.  Funny that vinyl is in again!  Actually Josh lost quite a collection in their house fire back in 2008.  Even Tim and Faith are into the vinyls now.  I believe Angie and Josh added about $75 worth of records from this store to their new collection.

 From there we walked to the Rookery.  It's a very walkable city.

 with interesting sights along the way.

 like these poodle signs everywhere!

 Heading into the Rookery.

  They definately have an interesting menu here!  I thought about getting a salad, then decided I had to get one of their famous menu items.  I forget the name of it, but it was a burger with peanut butter and bacon on it.  Sounded odd, but was really quite good!

 Even Layla liked the place.

 All that was missing was Ken (and Carol).  Unfortunately Carol couldn't make it down from St. Louis and Ken's foot was causing him problems.

Angie pointed out this bike stand to me.

 another of the dog signs.

 and another.

Then we rode over to Vineville to show Josh's Dad, Darrel, where they originally thought about buying a house.

 In fact, this was the one they were looking at.  Looks like it has sold.

 more of the incredible houses here!

 the church was pretty interesting, too.

 This house was for sale.  Looked like it had potential.

 I love this house.

 This one, too. 

 Back at the house, we hung out in the pool for awhile.

 Layla seemed a little apprehensive the first time in the pool, but this time she seemed to be having a ball.

 so did Grandma.

 she's hamming it up for the cameras already!

 She had to take a break from all the smiling and chew on a couple fingers for awhile.

 happy baby

 I'm alwasy trying to take these kinds of photos when I'm snorkeling, but never get it.

 Layla even did well laying on her back.

Later that evening, Angie made her famous home made pizza and we played some Mexican Train dominoes.  Layla watched on with a new solid food---a teething cracker. 

 She actually seemed to eat some of it, made a big mess with the rest of it.

I hope Josh enjoyed his birthday as much as I did.  Too bad Ken didn't feel like joining us.  While we were in Edisto last weekend, his bum ankle collapsed and left him hardly able to walk.  And when he does walk, it's on the side of his foot.  Monday he has a Dr. appointment to go get it looked at.
But Josh's dad made it here from Florida.  It was nice visiting with him, too.