This past Saturday, after Ava’s gymnastics class, we met up with Anna Fletcher and headed to Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain, GA. We met up with Melissa Baillairge and Amy Hoffman, who were already there enjoying the beach.
While at Callaway, we were able to check-out Mr. Cason’s vegetable garden. In the same area, the PBS show Victory Gardens is actually filmed here. It’s a gardener’s dream come true!
We fed the ducks, turtles and fish in a pond. The kids really seemed to enjoy this! I almost lost my stomach, thinking about any one of them tumbling in the water. :-0 We then visited the stone chapel, which is absolutely gorgeous! I could just imagine a winter wedding in this chapel, which is situated right beside a nice lake.
We also watched a show on “Birds of Prey”, during which we saw quite a few different owls, hawks and other birds. I think it freaked Ava out a bit that they were flying right over our heads. She wasn’t scared until they mentioned not to put your fingers in the air, that the birds might mistake them for food. Ha ha!
After that, we ventured over to the man-made lake that had a fountain in it. The lake was very shallow for quite some distance, which great for the kids! Liam stayed on the beach and built things out of sand. Ava swam some, then decided she wanted to build a retaining wall. Hmm, I wonder where she got that from? ;-)
It was 5 p.m. by the time we decided to head out for dinner at a local country diner. The diner reminded me of a Cracker Barrel, complete with a very cool gift shop. Ava decided to get a bag of mineral rocks as a souvenir. Liam decided on an old green truck. I ate my first fried green tomato sandwich, complete with Muscadine grape mayo sauce. It was yummy! We were all wiped out from the day’s festivities and the heat that came along with it. We drove the 1 ½ hours home, at which point all of the kids in our van (Ava, Liam, Ryan-Ashton and Kylyn) all fell asleep.
It was a fun day! It was nice to spend the day with friends and for the mommies to catch up between kidling requests. :-)
Peace, love and lifelong friends,
Shelly, Doug, Ava and Liam
Shelly, Doug, Ava and Liam
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