Homestead Report Number 59

Yesterday was New Years Eve and Yun and I spent a quiet evening at home watching a Korean soap series with English subtitles.  Called Emperor of the Sea, it can be found on aznv.tv.  It has 51 one hour long episodes.  Yun and I are up to episode 20 and are greatly enjoying it.  At the time the story unfolds (850 AD), the Korean peninsula was divided into three kingdoms: Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla.  This series depicts the lives of groups of merchants fighting for possession of Chinese shipping rights along a 1114 mile long, sometimes natural and sometimes man made "Grand Canal".  The grand canal stretched from Hangzhou, about 100 miles below Shanghai, to present day Beijing.  It is replete with the slice and dice sword fights expected of series involving old kingdom feuds and has the also expected love story interest.

TOMORROW Yun and I celebrate our birthday, and TODAY, Michelle and Steven had us drive up to mid-town Atlanta to be treated to breakfast at The Flying Biscuit.  Really great non-chain restaurant.  Really good biscuits and the apple butter is excellent.  Then, they took us to the Atlanta Aquarium were we spent several hours wandering though the tanks of fish.  Yun and I have visited only one other aquarium, in Chattanooga, and Atlanta wins hands down.  Frankly, it's hard to believe that there is any other aquarium that is better, unless it is the one that has the Blue Whale.  Oh, that's right, no Aquarium has one.  After that, Michelle and Steven took us for lunch at the Vortex as well, We had, arguably, the best burgers I've eaten yet.  I'll get the name from Michelle and Steven and edit this site to steer you there.  I do know it was on 10th Street in mid-town about 100 yards from the Metropolis but on the opposite side of the street, headed away from I-75, next to a strip club.  Good food and good service.

All in all, it was the best birthday celebration that Yun and I have ever had.  Best of all though was that the Kids shared it with us.

More later (There's always more, later not so much.)

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