And we're back. It was a remarkably smooth trip home, except for the bits along 400 close to home. Leave it to Atlanta traffic to spoil the journey. The unusual news is our fairly easy trip through Henry County, which pretty much justified our decision to go through Atlanta versus the Athens route.
We left later in the morning, taking our time about things, packing slowly and extending our goodbye a little bit longer. It's a long drive, but it's one that usually doesn't take so long that you have to get up so early. Why not sleep in a bit? We all did, and were glad of it.
The three of us listened to quite a few bits of "Riders Radio" on the way back, along with some Prairie Home Companion CDs that Daddy got for Christmas. It was radio theater all the way home! Madison was also listening to "The Greatest Showman" soundtrack over and over again, of course. Guess what I'm listening to now, Daddy? It's not that hard to guess these days!
We stopped a few times at rest areas, and our now usual Chick-Fil-A at the Cordele exit. But we were all about getting home today, and that we did, fairly quickly.
One of the struggles with this new series, "Legends" has been a banner. It just took forever to come up with an idea. We had like four different ideas, and it just took us about 8,000 emails and phone calls and meetings and texts and so forth just to get to a graphic design we're all happy with. This one has taken us a long time to nail down, and it's unusual - and frustrating. But we're finally there. Just imagine each of these below taking so long to figure out. Do we put a sword here, a flash here, or a "Warcraft" circle here? What about a mascot?
We could never find the mascot that fit the series, as the topics are pretty broad. We have princes, princesses, Robin Hoods, and so on... nothing we found could fit, and there was no time to really create our own. So we found this image here:
And most of us liked it, at least in a "thank goodness it is done" sort of way. But then came a final indecisive surge of, "well adults like it, but will kids like it?" So we found a castle online, a real one, and we're pretty close now with this banner idea here:
Except there's scaffolding in the picture. We'll remove that. But you can see this process through the week, and where we're at now. Crazy how sometimes simple things like graphics can slow you down in a major way.
Fortunately, we weren't slowed down in traffic. See what I did there? Anyway, tonight we were back in our own beds, after watching some of the Olympics and unpacking our goodies. It was a nice, quick trip away, but as you can see above, this next week we'll be visiting another place of stories, and fantasy... and legends...
We left later in the morning, taking our time about things, packing slowly and extending our goodbye a little bit longer. It's a long drive, but it's one that usually doesn't take so long that you have to get up so early. Why not sleep in a bit? We all did, and were glad of it.
The three of us listened to quite a few bits of "Riders Radio" on the way back, along with some Prairie Home Companion CDs that Daddy got for Christmas. It was radio theater all the way home! Madison was also listening to "The Greatest Showman" soundtrack over and over again, of course. Guess what I'm listening to now, Daddy? It's not that hard to guess these days!
We stopped a few times at rest areas, and our now usual Chick-Fil-A at the Cordele exit. But we were all about getting home today, and that we did, fairly quickly.
One of the struggles with this new series, "Legends" has been a banner. It just took forever to come up with an idea. We had like four different ideas, and it just took us about 8,000 emails and phone calls and meetings and texts and so forth just to get to a graphic design we're all happy with. This one has taken us a long time to nail down, and it's unusual - and frustrating. But we're finally there. Just imagine each of these below taking so long to figure out. Do we put a sword here, a flash here, or a "Warcraft" circle here? What about a mascot?
We could never find the mascot that fit the series, as the topics are pretty broad. We have princes, princesses, Robin Hoods, and so on... nothing we found could fit, and there was no time to really create our own. So we found this image here:
And most of us liked it, at least in a "thank goodness it is done" sort of way. But then came a final indecisive surge of, "well adults like it, but will kids like it?" So we found a castle online, a real one, and we're pretty close now with this banner idea here:
Except there's scaffolding in the picture. We'll remove that. But you can see this process through the week, and where we're at now. Crazy how sometimes simple things like graphics can slow you down in a major way.
Fortunately, we weren't slowed down in traffic. See what I did there? Anyway, tonight we were back in our own beds, after watching some of the Olympics and unpacking our goodies. It was a nice, quick trip away, but as you can see above, this next week we'll be visiting another place of stories, and fantasy... and legends...
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