Today was awesome! We all stayed together o go volunteer at the Atlanta Community Food Bank. We were first orientated, and then went to the back of the warehouse where we were broken up into groups with different tasks. Some people were chosen to sort food by deciding if it was O.K. to pack certain foods or not. It was almost enough power to overwhelm them. This job was also particularly hard because we had to throw things like chocolate! It was so hard to let go. Others were on the scales to weigh the boxes and a couple people were in charge of sorting the boxes. We rocked it out the first 3 hour shift! We packed enough food to feed over 5,000 people! We then took a lunch break on the campus of Georgia Tech and returned to the food bank for our second shift. The second shift went even better than the first! We packed enough food to feed over 7,000 people bringing us to a total day's work of 12,000 meals!
After we left the food bank, we went to the Martin Luther King Jr. museum and historical site. There, we were able to see Dr. King's burial site as well as the house he grew up in! On a side note, did you know his house is up for rent? If you're interested I'll be looking for roommates for grad school at Georgia tech! Once we left there, we went to the biggest mall in Atlanta. It was so big each car actually ended up in completely separate buildings. One group went to the normal mall for the average person and the other group went to the mall with stores very strange to Max, like Saks of 5th Avenue. They also went to Gucci to find a $500 pair of shorts (with built in underwear). After we did some serious pocket book damage (not at Gucci) we headed back to the house to enjoy an excellent taco feast prepared by mom and dad (Max and Cole). On another side note, we are now calling ourselves Jon and Kate Plus 8.
After dinner we all got dressed and decided to find a decent 18+ dance club where could to get our groove on! This turned out to be a disappointment. The first place we tried told us it was 18+ but was actually 21+so we were kicked out, after that it just kept going downhill….way down hill. So far we ended up hitting rock bottom and starting digging. What does this mean? We ended up in Greek town at Georgia Tech to see what their night life was like. We were mostly shunned by the southern frat bros due to our awkward quirkiness…or maybe it was the minivan. Needless to say, we ended up in the library. We then ventured back home and our now updating you all on our terrific adventures! We hear the "party of the year" is supposed to be going down tomorrow at a place called "The Ridge" but no one not even Google can find it. Our next choice will be dollar night at the Atlanta City Fair! Stay tuned….
Skookums from the ATL
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