Friday, April 23, 2010

Stone Mountain

Grandma Fife came to visit us on April 22nd all the way from WA. She stayed until May 1st and we had a lot of fun with her...not to mention how she saved my sanity! We were so happy to see her! Morgan ended up having a long weekend break and decided to drive the 12 hours down to Georgia to spend the weekend with us. Since we are only 15 minutes from Stone Mountain, we thought that this would be the ideal place to take Grandma.


Can you name the 3 men carved in the stone?
One of the coolest things about Stone Mountain is the Sky Hike. Morgan and Shelley went on the version for adults:





Miriam and Luke went on a much smaller scale for children.
There is even a zip line for kids and Luke went on it 5-6 times. He impressed me with his bravery and loved every minute of the course! We will definitely be back there this summer!

We also got to "Ride the Ducks." Since all children were required to wear a life vest, here is Eve trying her best to comply with the rules.
The tear is not from wearing the life jacket...
Once in the water, each of the kids got to "drive" the boat. They thought they were really something!

What would the ride be without the quackers to blow on throughout the ride! Eve just sucked on hers like a pacifier!
Finally we took the Sky Ride to the top of Stone Mountain.

Downtown Atlanta can be seen in the distance.
Other than Luke vomiting in the Sky Ride line when we first got to the park, we ended up having a fantastically fun day. It was good to have everyone together and for us to be out and enjoying the beautiful warm Georgia weather.

2 comments:

Corey said...

How cool that Morgan's mom was able to visit you guys! It looks like you went on some great adventures together. The Sky Hike looks pretty tricky! Why didn't you try it? Good thing they had harnesses on!

Nicole said...

Yea, I love infants in life vests. Mike's sister had a boat and we took our first trip to Lake Powell when Zoey was only like 6 months old and she WAILED everytime we put the life vest on. Her little neck wasn't long enough to stick out the top of the vest. Fun times.