Emma and scary man.
Kids checking out the horses
Goat laying on a cows back
Emma and her BFF
Emma's new baby being dressed
Braves game
Emma being flipped in the pool
Megan and Sam
I'm starting from last Friday since that's when we started our vacation:
Friday: We took Olivia to the dog spa and took off. We arrived at Ken's sister's house about 5ish. Met for a bit and then went swimming in their new pool. Amy made baked spaghetti for dinner. Also, a new kitty took up at their house. They named her Sam -- not knowing if it was a boy of girl (it's a girl). Very sweet little kitty. Went to bed.
Saturday: We just hung around -- more of Ken's family came over to visit and swim. Did a lot of kid throwing about the pool - see photos. We cooked out on the grill and did more swimming. For dinner we had pizza and did more swimming. Went to bed.
Sunday: Got up and had breakfast at Denny's. Swam a little (I think). Left about 3ish to go to the Brave's game. We ate at the Varsity - pretty famous place and fun place to eat before the game. Lots of grease which is always good. Went to the Braves game -- started at 6:05. They played the Mets which was kinda cool b/c there was a guy from the Braves that just got traded to the Mets -- Jeff Francour (last year we all got shirts with Francour on the back b/c we loved him). Ken wore his anyway - everyone cheered when we went to bat. Em and I had boiled peanuts and we loved them. We also had some dipping dots and various other very expensive ball game foods -- it's worth it I think!! Amy, Shane, Megan and Thomas all went. It was fun -- Braves won! Went home - went to bed.
Monday: Got up and went to White Water (water park). The weather was great -- mid 80's and not humid at all. The water was COLD!! We went on various rides -- we thought that since it was a Monday, it would not be busy -- but it was. Most of the time for the big rides, the waits were about 30 to 45 minutes. It was fun until I went on a water ride that was in the dark most of the time. I wanted to vomit at the end. What a wimp I've become. We ate $70 worth of chicken fingers and pizza (WHY SOOOOOOOOOOO EXPENSIVE?!?!?!?!?!?!??!). Sorry. Rode more and headed on back to Amy's house. I can't remember what we did for dinner.
Tuesday: Woke up about 8ish and left Amy's at 9. We were leaving and heading to the mountains to stay at the Dillard house. One the way, we stopped at Babyland General (cabbage patch heaven). Emma has been talking about it since we went last year. She adopted a sweet little baby. Her name is Alexandra Morgan (Emma named her). She loves her so. After that, we headed to Helen. It was a cool little town. We ate lunch and walked around. The kids did an old timey photo -- it was really fun. They LOVED it. We left there and went across the street to do a little tubing down the Chattahoochee River (not sure if that's spelled right). We picked the 1 hour ride since the water level was a little low. It was fun!! After that, we changed, bought t-shirts and ate some ice cream. We left and drove to Dillard to spend the night. Ate at Pizza Hut and checked into the room about 9:00. We took showers and watch Twilight. Every fell asleep during the movie but me and Abby.
Wednesday: Got up and ate a HUGE breakfast at the Dillard house. They bring out all of these things to eat -- kinda like family style. Here are some of the things: eggs, bacon, sausage (link and patty), bacon, grits, gravy, biscuits, apples, tenderloin, potatoes, etc. It was SO much. They also had a breakfast bar type thing. We let Emma and Logan go over there and they came back with hot chocolate. Abby wanted some so they headed back over. The waitress told us that we would have to pay for it and we were a bit confused until we found out that they went behind the waitress area and got some out of a hot chocolate machine. Emma said that she didn't know -- but it was not even close to the breakfast bar -- so not sure how they got over there and why we didn't see them. Oh well, they said it was great and totally worth it. We left and went over to the petting zoo area. There was this horse that kept on head butting Emma until she fed him. There were goats and rats, chickens, cows and a 5 day old goat. He was cute. We changed quickly and went to swim for a minute since we had to check out at 12:00. Left and headed towards Ken's dad's lake place. We stopped at a place called Goat on the Roof. They had goats on the roof that you can send food pellets up to feed them. They also had gem mining. That's always fun. Got to Ken's dad's about 3:00. It was very overcast, but we went out to tube anyway. Megan, Logan and Emma got to tube, but Abby didn't since it started to thunder. We got back and cleaned up a bit to go out to eat. We ate at Ken's dad's favorite place -- Red Lobster. We back and rode the boat a bit more. Went to bed.
Thursday: Got up and had some cereal. Took a boat ride to a bridge. Got various trucks to honk 41 times. Went back and got changed for tubing. It kept on storming so we had to come in and back out. Emma and I took a break and used Maggie (GPS) to head to WalMart -- just to get out for a bit. We went into a dollar store (Xtreme Dollar to be exact) and they had some really great things. They had note cards with Emma's name on them and I got a NCSU garden glad for $1. Kinda funny that we were in GA, but they had a NSCU flag in there for $1 -- it was the ONLY one there. We back and Thomas cooked some hamburgers on the grill. We ate and then we back for a boat ride. Everyone was a bit tired so we went back and just hung out -- watched TV and packed up. We put some wet shoes in the car the night before (well, I did) and the truck smelled like death the next morning!
Friday: Amy left early b/c her A/C on her van was out. We left right after that -- but ate breakfast at Shoney's with Thomas and Ken's dad before heading out. We had breakfast buffet but they had a salad bar... so I ate one. They also had a crane but we didn't have any change and the toys were huge...so we were OK with not trying it out. Got in the truck and headed home. Got home about 4 and dropped off Abby and Logan. Went to pick up Olivia and headed home!!! Ken cut the grass and I unpacked. I ate grape tomatoes for dinner - I probably picked 300 from the garden that night! Watch SeaBiscuit and went to bed.
Saturday: Got up about 8:30. Drove into town to work to sync up my laptop password so I could log on to this from home and get my blog on. Got some gas in the truck and came home. Took at shower and drove to Clayton to go to the movie place that Mom, Dad and Darian talked about that had pizza, etc. We went to see HP6 (again) at 12:50. We just sat down at a lady came in and said that the projector was not working so she would refund our money or we could come back at 3:30 and see the next showing. Since we had our food, we decided to just go and see something else. They only thing that was on at that time was My Sister's Keeper. It was OK -- but not like the book. It was a TOTAL cryfest. I have to admit that I did cry a couple of times. Left there and went to Game Stop to buy Harrison (little boy across the street) a birthday gift. Came home and Ken is now sleeping on the couch and I'm blogging. I'm going to try now and download some pictures from the trip. Sorry if this does not seen too exciting, but it's too much to type all at once. Being in a blog free zone was nice, but it probably would have been better to blog every night -- there may have been more exciting things to talk about.
Hope you enjoyed our trip as much as we did!!! Have a peachy (get it??? GA peaches) day!
Monday: Got up and went to White Water (water park). The weather was great -- mid 80's and not humid at all. The water was COLD!! We went on various rides -- we thought that since it was a Monday, it would not be busy -- but it was. Most of the time for the big rides, the waits were about 30 to 45 minutes. It was fun until I went on a water ride that was in the dark most of the time. I wanted to vomit at the end. What a wimp I've become. We ate $70 worth of chicken fingers and pizza (WHY SOOOOOOOOOOO EXPENSIVE?!?!?!?!?!?!??!). Sorry. Rode more and headed on back to Amy's house. I can't remember what we did for dinner.
Tuesday: Woke up about 8ish and left Amy's at 9. We were leaving and heading to the mountains to stay at the Dillard house. One the way, we stopped at Babyland General (cabbage patch heaven). Emma has been talking about it since we went last year. She adopted a sweet little baby. Her name is Alexandra Morgan (Emma named her). She loves her so. After that, we headed to Helen. It was a cool little town. We ate lunch and walked around. The kids did an old timey photo -- it was really fun. They LOVED it. We left there and went across the street to do a little tubing down the Chattahoochee River (not sure if that's spelled right). We picked the 1 hour ride since the water level was a little low. It was fun!! After that, we changed, bought t-shirts and ate some ice cream. We left and drove to Dillard to spend the night. Ate at Pizza Hut and checked into the room about 9:00. We took showers and watch Twilight. Every fell asleep during the movie but me and Abby.
Wednesday: Got up and ate a HUGE breakfast at the Dillard house. They bring out all of these things to eat -- kinda like family style. Here are some of the things: eggs, bacon, sausage (link and patty), bacon, grits, gravy, biscuits, apples, tenderloin, potatoes, etc. It was SO much. They also had a breakfast bar type thing. We let Emma and Logan go over there and they came back with hot chocolate. Abby wanted some so they headed back over. The waitress told us that we would have to pay for it and we were a bit confused until we found out that they went behind the waitress area and got some out of a hot chocolate machine. Emma said that she didn't know -- but it was not even close to the breakfast bar -- so not sure how they got over there and why we didn't see them. Oh well, they said it was great and totally worth it. We left and went over to the petting zoo area. There was this horse that kept on head butting Emma until she fed him. There were goats and rats, chickens, cows and a 5 day old goat. He was cute. We changed quickly and went to swim for a minute since we had to check out at 12:00. Left and headed towards Ken's dad's lake place. We stopped at a place called Goat on the Roof. They had goats on the roof that you can send food pellets up to feed them. They also had gem mining. That's always fun. Got to Ken's dad's about 3:00. It was very overcast, but we went out to tube anyway. Megan, Logan and Emma got to tube, but Abby didn't since it started to thunder. We got back and cleaned up a bit to go out to eat. We ate at Ken's dad's favorite place -- Red Lobster. We back and rode the boat a bit more. Went to bed.
Thursday: Got up and had some cereal. Took a boat ride to a bridge. Got various trucks to honk 41 times. Went back and got changed for tubing. It kept on storming so we had to come in and back out. Emma and I took a break and used Maggie (GPS) to head to WalMart -- just to get out for a bit. We went into a dollar store (Xtreme Dollar to be exact) and they had some really great things. They had note cards with Emma's name on them and I got a NCSU garden glad for $1. Kinda funny that we were in GA, but they had a NSCU flag in there for $1 -- it was the ONLY one there. We back and Thomas cooked some hamburgers on the grill. We ate and then we back for a boat ride. Everyone was a bit tired so we went back and just hung out -- watched TV and packed up. We put some wet shoes in the car the night before (well, I did) and the truck smelled like death the next morning!
Friday: Amy left early b/c her A/C on her van was out. We left right after that -- but ate breakfast at Shoney's with Thomas and Ken's dad before heading out. We had breakfast buffet but they had a salad bar... so I ate one. They also had a crane but we didn't have any change and the toys were huge...so we were OK with not trying it out. Got in the truck and headed home. Got home about 4 and dropped off Abby and Logan. Went to pick up Olivia and headed home!!! Ken cut the grass and I unpacked. I ate grape tomatoes for dinner - I probably picked 300 from the garden that night! Watch SeaBiscuit and went to bed.
Saturday: Got up about 8:30. Drove into town to work to sync up my laptop password so I could log on to this from home and get my blog on. Got some gas in the truck and came home. Took at shower and drove to Clayton to go to the movie place that Mom, Dad and Darian talked about that had pizza, etc. We went to see HP6 (again) at 12:50. We just sat down at a lady came in and said that the projector was not working so she would refund our money or we could come back at 3:30 and see the next showing. Since we had our food, we decided to just go and see something else. They only thing that was on at that time was My Sister's Keeper. It was OK -- but not like the book. It was a TOTAL cryfest. I have to admit that I did cry a couple of times. Left there and went to Game Stop to buy Harrison (little boy across the street) a birthday gift. Came home and Ken is now sleeping on the couch and I'm blogging. I'm going to try now and download some pictures from the trip. Sorry if this does not seen too exciting, but it's too much to type all at once. Being in a blog free zone was nice, but it probably would have been better to blog every night -- there may have been more exciting things to talk about.
Hope you enjoyed our trip as much as we did!!! Have a peachy (get it??? GA peaches) day!
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