Georgia visit

Hi All,

The video below is from our trip to Atlanta for Teresa's parents 50th wedding anniversary. We left on a Thursday afternoon after Mike finished teaching. Our first stop was in Knoxville, TN, where we stayed in a hotel, all six of us: Teresa, Mike, Jessi, Addison, Lily and Kelsey. I am glad to report very few problems with the first leg of the trip. On Friday morning we left for Brasstown Resort in the mountains of Northern Georgia. The highlight of the trip was the last 30 minutes of which Addison kept repeating "get out" over and over and over and over...yarg!

The Anniversary was great, the girls wore dresses made by Gram and were the hit of the party, from my perspective. The drive from North Georgia to Atlanta was Sunday's event. I chose to go through the mountains and was able to get everyone car sick, some more than others. The highlight must have been pulling over after Lily threw up. Go Dad!

We stayed in Atlanta, at Teresa's brother's house. This allowed the girls to spend lots of time with their 3-year old cousin, Coleman. On Monday, we went to the Atlanta Zoo with their cousin Coleman. It was a great time and all the girls loved it. Atlanta Zoo has a petting zoo, like the Columbus Zoo, and the girls enjoyed petting the goats, sheep and pigs.

On Tuesday, we went to Stone Mountain. The video of some of our events is below. The events include a trip to the top of Stone Mountain, a duck boat ride (the girls got to drive the boat), and lunch with Gram and Pop.

On Wednesday, we went to the Atlanta Children's Museum. It was absolutely incredible. I know Teresa took some pictures, but the pictures do not give justice to the absolute unbridled joy that the girls experienced for several hours. They were running around, wide-eyed, laughing, learning, and playing. What a great day.

On Thursday at 10am , we got back in the car, packed up and headed for home. Teresa had planned the trip to allow for some stops along the way to keep from 12 hours of "get out." Our first stop was about 1 hour north of Atlanta at a Chick-fil-a that had a playground. The second stop was at our dear Notre Dame friends who live in Charlotte, NC: Jim and Amy Berger. They have two children and a house full of toys. The girls played and ran around Jim and Amy's house for an hour or so. Jim and Amy fed our family. And we finally got back in the car for the final 6 hours. The last three, the girls finally fell asleep.

And so, our last trip of the summer comes to an end. If you are keeping score, of the eight days, we were in the car driving somewhere seven of those days. Yeah, I am tired.