CALL ME CRAZY...

It is 12:31 AM which means it is officially Brooks' Birthday!!!

I have been thinking about what a whirlwind we were going through two years ago and keep thinking about the crazy situation with the fire alarms. I will explain this more. 

Before we went to pick up Brooks in Atlanta we had gone to Ohio for what ended up being a failed adoption. We were staying at the Hilton Hotel and around midnight the fire alarms went off. We were down in the lobby and there was a hustle of firefighters running around with axes. It was actually kind of comical to watch. After our first adoption placement failed we ended up in Atlanta where we were staying at the Comfort Suites- which has no affiliation to Hilton Hotel. 

When we arrived the man at the front desk welcomed us and told us we were staying in a haunted hotel. It was the very place that Sherman and his troops burned down Atlanta during the civil war. He went on to tell us how the original structure was still standing and they had built on top of it to add more floors. 

In this picture you can see the original gray structure and where they added the red on top. 

It is the hardest hotel to get reservations for on New Year's Eve because it is in front the the Georgia Peach Drop. Someday it would be fun to go on New Years and watch the ball drop :) 

We spent  A LOT of time in this lobby. Oh the memories!

Anyways, we headed up to our room and about an hour later the fire alarm went off and there was a distant voice saying "fire alert, fire alert". It was erie. We went back to the lobby and the man at the front desk informed us this was a coincidence to his former statement about the hotel being haunted. He said he would look into the situation with the fire alarms and why they were going off. 

Well, they did not stop going off, in fact, they had to call in a company to come fix them. The entire time we were at the hotel the alarms were going off and there was the loudest voice saying, "Fire, please exit the building" over and over again. 

We had picked up cute little Brooks from the hospital and every hour, all night long, those dumb alarms would go off. I really can't even tell you how loud they were but believe me they were LOUD! 

Brooks kept looking up at us with these big eyes like what in the world is going on. 

We thought it was so ironic the alarms would be going off both in Ohio and at Atlanta in two different hotel chains. 

It was midnight tonight and I was thinking about cute Brooks and those crazy alarms and I kid you not,

I looked out my window and what do I see? Firetrucks galore parked at the vacant house behind me and the fire alarms going off. At midnight of Brooks' Birthday. 

I wish I would have taken a photo. How ironic is that? 

So HAPPY BIRTHDAY BROOKS!!! 

The world knew someone special had entered the world so it set off fire alarms :)