FWA was good over all. Travel down was not a problem and I ended up getting rock star parking at the airport. Flight was fine and transport was easy for
earendil31 and I via MARTA. The first night was a long one w/ no sleep (as sated before) but it lead to hanging out w/
aldebron and one of his friends who where working security all night.
Sat night
alias_pup (aka woofie/rubberwoof) took me out to an amazing dinner at
Nikolai's Roof. There we had the
Chef's Menu so our only choice was "beef or lamb," we both selected beef. There where many new foods for me including: Piroshkis (beef, pheasant, shrimp) I loved the beef and pheasant but I am not a fan of shrimp anyway so that was good but still shrimp, scallops w/ Osetra Caviar was very nice. The Borscht w/ Kobe Beef was also new to me and very good. The Orange sorbet w/ caramel infused vodka was sooo good, never have had sorbet w/ a vodka before, it was very refreshing and the vodka was so cold that it was thick like a syrup and just so smooth. They had a cheese course, and two desert courses (a souffle and then cookies and chocolate covered strawberries.) For drinks I had two different infused vodkas, one was lime and the other was Russian tea with orange zest, aliaspup had Grand Marnier. I have to say the presentation and service was what made this dinner amazing, our lead weightier and his assistant where amazing and they explained all the dishes to us very fine detail. They where very very on top of things and treated you like one should be treated at a 4 star restaurant. We where the youngest there for sure and only one other couple was dressed below our business causal. The other neat thing was every woman got a rose when they left and there where 2 women who had birthdays and they gave them a wonderfully tasty looking cake on top of the 8 courses (the menu shows 7 but they came w/ the cookies/strawberries for the 8th.)
Sunday aliaspup pup and I had more good food at a Italian cafe with two of his friends and a nice burger place, though we walked though a bad area of town w/ a soup kitchen. Was able to hang w/
jaeger_fuchs and Tig. Had good time hanging w/ friends and meeting new people. Over all I had a good time once I got to sleep (and all the amazing food and good friends helped too,) thanks so much for letting me crash in your room Tig, Jaeger, and woofie. Monday the flight home was fine though a bit late, drive back to work was longer also because of weather and work was fine w/ out too many issues. I did get my tape library up and running fully saving the company $10k for a new one. It turned out it was just a broken spring.