My Weekend at Woodbury

I’d been thinking about blogging and how I haven’t been blogging and then my dad mentioned it to me this weekend saying he’s bored he needs me to blog. Thank goodness for him I had some weekend adventures.

I attended a wedding with TGIS this weekend and the site of the wedding just happened to be where Sweet Home Alabama was filmed. Well parts of it anyways. This gave me the GREAT idea to hunt down some of The Walking Dead locations on our Sunday. His parents live in Newnan so we figured we’d drop the kid off with them and go from there.

Right around the corner we hit up the site where the Governor pits Daryl and Merle against each other in a ZOMBIE filled arena. It was pretty cool. From there we decided to head to Senoia. On the way to Senoia we saw Barbie’s Beach on a road side. Apparently this guy just sets these Barbies out and it’s a thing. Happy he does, it was funny. We ate in Woodbury (not the real Woodbury, the made up Woodbury in Senoia) and saw some Walking Dead props (everything like the "wall" had been gated away or covered) and Fried Green Tomatoes locations.  From there we decided to quest out for the Prison. When we got on the line we were sent out to Griffin (30 minutes from where we were in the middle of no man’s land with absolutely NO cell reception) to a tiny little “prison”, West Georgia Correctional Facility (or something like that). Turns out this was NOT the prison location. The prison location is actually on site at the Raleigh Studios which was where we were, in Senoia. Regardless, it’s not about the destination it’s the adventure and we did see where Merle had his last drink and we did happen upon the real Woodbury and we had a good time. 

We had some time to kill so on the way back we hit up Senoia Race Way. We went through a path, that I don’t think we were suppose to take, through a gate, that I don’t think was suppose to be open, and through the grass that I’m happy my car made it through. I had to pee and I didn’t have my Go Girl  (that you can now get at target) so with some advice from TGIS and his (female) cousin I decided to prop my bottom up against a ticket booth (a good ways away from where we were standing) and go for it. I did have napkins in my glove box after all. So, I’m out there, doin my thing and I hear a car coming. My first thought is “OH shit someone’s coming to tell us we’re not supposed to be down here” but I look back and it’s TGIS hauling ASS to my pissing location HONKING, totes messing with me. Now I’m laughing so hard I can’t finish. I finally do finish and ha.ha.ha look at me trying to pee on a ticket booth.

We finished up the day with dinner at The Alamo, which according to TGIS’s mother Daryl and Carole have been spotted hanging out here, the pizza was fabulous, TGIS snuck some pineapples on half because he knew I liked them, and walking through a house that I have to own next door to his parent’s house. The weekend was fun, spent with good adventures and good peoples. Hopes to do it again soon.

The Walking Dead: SPOILER ALERTS

If you are watching and/or reading The Walking Dead and don't want to be spoiled, you may want to step away from this post. 

After re-watching season 1 and 2 (and not being able to re-watch 3 because it’s not out yet, bummers) I started doing some reading via The Walking Dead wiki. Engulfed in readings of the characters based on the show and the comic books, I stumbled upon info about our Governor. What if you woke up one day and The Governor was not who you thought he was?... Well that was exactly what happened to me!

The Governor is a huge asshole, that is true. His story is so shocking that while reading my mouth dropped. I can’t share my findings with anyone because either they haven’t read the books I bought them (sissy), are behind (guy I’m dating) or just aren't interested (besties). So, I figured I’d share with my dear readers. 

The Governor, aka Philip Blake, is actually Brian Blake! Philip is Brian’s YOUNGER brother who died not long after his daughter was shot. Yes, The Governor’s daughter is actually his niece. Philip asked Brian to watch after her but he failed and got her killed and he was very sad. He couldn't bring himself to put her down so he kept her locked up, you know just in case of a cure (it aint happenin yall). 

Brian, better known as The Governor or Philip, also attended UGA (go Dawgs!) and was basically a loser whom his brother, the actual Philip, could not stand because he sucked on the tit of society and moved back in with his parents to not do much. 

There you have it. I've gotten it out of my system. Hope I didn't ruin too much for The Walking Dead fans out there. In my defense I did give you a SPOILER ALERT. 

The Atlanta

I subscribed (for FREE) to the Atlantan via my Iphone and came across some adds that I liked enough to take a quick snap shot of.

First up are these glamorous rings. My fave are the two on the bottom right. Just simple and unique. I say YES YES YES!

Second up is an article with one of my fave characters, Dayrl played by Norman Reedus, from The Walking Dead filmed here in ATLANTA! Hints the article is in the Atlantan. Love him so again I say YES YES YES!