Presleigh Goes on a Date...

We've become connoisseurs lately of free concerts. Partly because, well, they're free.

Our new hobby began last week when Mommy and Daddy really needed a date night on which Presleigh could tag along. In checking out the local listings on the web, they found a "concert in the park" was starting in about 30 minutes (that's ten minutes after they discovered they had nothing planned and just enough time to drive across town to). We found ourselves in a local "Old Town" section of the North Atlanta suburb of Norcross, a place where the train still comes rumbling through the now repurposed train depot - a cool restaurant with AWESOME fried grouper and our first foray into fried green tomatoes.

There, we ran into people we hadn't seen, quaint houses with spacious wrap around porches (our fave), plenty of playground and park for Presleigh, and some cute (read: inexpensive) restaurants for Mommy and Daddy to be sickeningly romantic in. As usual, Presleigh made a huge splash with the locals, reaching a speed limit breaking 50 "adorable"s per hour.

Well, this week, with "great" Atlanta weather (read: mid-80s with humidity below 80%), we couldn't pass up continuing our new hobby. Besides, Mom wasn't available to babysit and we didn't have any tickets to the O.A.R. show at Verizon. We found ourselves in the old town section of Duluth, proximal to the same railroad from last week, just a few miles north.

The Gwinnett Symphony played a great show while Presleigh met puppies, little kids her size, and one of those cool, programmable fountains that she discovered to be a fun place to poke her fingers. Since she didn't have a swim diaper on, it was best that the fountain show wasn't playing... There, Presleigh met a nice little boy. No, it wasn't a date. I mean, if it was a date, Daddy chaperoned like a Papa should - a Papa-razzi! I'm not sure who this kid is, but the press wouldn't leave him alone. I wouldn't leave him alone with my Presleigh! Nice enough kid, but I don't know his peeps, you know?

What you miss from this picture (but, was captured below) is that the cute, little boy with her was eating a piece of pizza. When he joined her in exploring the fountain, he decided to put his pizza down behind him, which of course, he promptly picked back up and went to work on when the fountain fun was done...

Yummm... Pepperoni and Park Pizza!?

Ah, we'll give him a pass. Kids will be kids, right? 45 second rule? It was a great night for all, with a yummy dinner for Mommy & Daddy at a local hole-in-the-wall, plenty of fun pictures of Presleigh, and one more notch on the "free concert" belt.

Date night - gotta have it!