Today I dropped Annabelle off with Kristen while I finished a work report. It sounded and looked like they had a blast. They went to the playground near Kristen’s house, rode her balance bike, and worked on decorating a gingerbread house. From what I hear, Annabelle asked if she could eat it and Kristen told her no. So when Annabelle thought Kristen wasn’t paying attention, she tried to sneak a taste of the frosting. However, she forgot she was wearing a mask and it didn’t work.
Before I picked up Annabelle, Buster and I went back to the dog park at Piedmont Park. That dog loves running around getting pets and stealing tennis balls. When I walked him to the park, he was pulling the entire way. On the way home, he heeled by my side.
I joined Kristen and Annabelle in the late afternoon. Here i thought Annabelle would be happy to see me and want to spend time with me. However, she decided to ride her bike to Ponce City Market while Kristen walked beside her and I drove my car. We rode the elevator to the top. It had a beautiful skyline view. It costs $15 to ride to the top. Then it was another $15 to play the games unlimited. Annabelle was free of charge. They had carnival type games like the racing horses, basketball, skee-ball, and throw baseballs at plates.
The only game we played that we were actually able to win tickets was the racing horses because we were racing ourselves. Annabelle tried all the games but struggled to get anywhere close to the target on anything but the racing horses. I let Annabelle beat me once, but then I had to beat her to teach her a lesson that she won’t always win, but can still have fun. She didn’t like that. After that, she told me she wanted to play with Kristen only because she could beat Kristen. Of course, they played like 15 times and Kristen let her win each time except the one time. Annabelle quit after she lost to Kristen. We managed to play enough times to get enough tickets for a big prize for herself (blue penguin) and a small prize for Hannah (pig). Of course, Annabelle decided she didn’t want to give it up after all, so she’s going to “hang onto it for now” and then give it to Hannah when she’s done.
We also tried to go mini-golfing, but Annabelle was not interested. She tried, but didn’t quite grasp the concept of putting. We did about 1.5 holes before she quit.
For dinner, I drove out past Druid Hills to Desta’s Ethiopian Kitchen. It was a little confusing getting there as there weren’t a lot of instructions online for order pickup. There were several curbside pickup designated parking spots if you called in an order, but if you ordered online, it was to be picked up in the drive-thru back window. It was my second time ever eating Ethiopian food and Andy’s first. Annabelle refused to eat it. We ordered beef sambusas and lentil sambusas, ribeye tibs with potatoes layered over shiro, a side of miser, and tilapia dulet with shiro served with injera. Everything was delicious, but I particularly enjoyed the miser and the tilapia dulet with shiro.