Romantic Weekend Escapes Near Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia will always be one of the most romantic cities that I've been to because that is where I met my husband for the first time. My husband is from England and we first met over the internet back in 2000. We became really good friends after talking for over a year, and decided to meet at the end of 2001. I was attending college in Nashville at the time, and drove to meet up with him in Atlanta, where his flight would be arriving. Although we had already been talking for almost two years, we never officially had a "first date". We spent our first date together walking around Atlanta city. Neither of us were familiar with the city, but decided to go there on a whim since it was close to the airport. We were walking around and came across the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel. We both looked up in awe as we saw an elevator surrounded in tiny lights glitter up to the 73rd story. We actually parked right near the hotel by chance, and didn't realize how close we were standing to it, until we looked up and saw an amazing circular building that seemed to sit in the clouds.

We walked toward the hotel to see if we could take an elevator ride up to the top to view the city. It was already pretty late, so the hotel was very quiet, except for a few business men. We looked for the glass elevator attached to the outside of the building that we saw while we were standing outside. We found out that the same elevator actually takes you up to a Revolving Sun Dial Restaurant. The restaurant was already closed for the night, so we decided we would just go as high up as possible so we could get a good view of Atlanta city. I am not a big fan of heights, but the view was amazing and very romantic.