Labor Day in Atlanta
My husband and I love to travel, and the long weekend afforded by Labor Day is always incentive to get out of town. We usually make plans to go somewhere a little farther than we would normally travel in a weekend, and before having kids we would fly there (despite my near-paralyzing fear of flight).
Seems the last few years, we are on a losing streak: In 2004, we had plans to fly to Key West to visit friends. Hello, hurricane Frances (at least, I think it was Frances, but maybe it was Ivan, or Charley, or Dennis.) Flights cancelled. Ever game for a road trip, we headed of to Chattanooga for a weekend on their riverfront (along with all the Floridians escaping the hurricane in Florida.) Don’t worry, we still made it to Key West that December, just in time to take our sixteen-month old son to the family-friendly Fantasy Fest. Last year? A little baby we like to call Hurricane M; my daughter was due early last October, preventing any travel for the month of September.
This year, we made plans to visit friends in Charleston. Here we go again, with Ernesto. Sure, we could go anyway, as Ernesto is probably not going to be a big deal, but who wants to drive 6 hours to sit trapped in someone else’s house with four kids under the age of five? Not us.
This begs the question: What is there to do in Atlanta for Labor Day? We almost never stay in town for the holiday weekend, so even though I am a native Atlantan, I don’t really know much about local Labor Day traditions, other than a weekend on Lake Lanier, or shooting the ‘Hooch. Looks like the family and I will be spending the weekend on nearby Lake Sinclair, hopefully with lots of sunshine, and plenty of college football.
What are the locals doing here in town?