My best friend from High School lives in Georgia. As you may recall she paid me a surprise visit for my birthday. We planned then that we would go camping in the Smokey Mountains over memorial weekend. Well..... of course we didn't start looking for a campground until it was too late. We were loosing all hope of seeing each other until I said "We are coming to see you!!!"
After I said that I was kind of freaking out because it is a 9-10 hour drive ONE WAY to her house. The longest we have been in the car with Caitlynn and Dalton is 2 hours. But I wanted to see my bestest..... so on Friday morning at 3am we packed everyone in the car and headed for Georgia. Oh everyone except Ashlie. She was in Minnesota on a mission trip. She was flying into Atlanta that day to meet up with us. So, anyway, we head out at 3am. Everyone did great. If the kids weren't sleeping they were watching movies. Not really a peep from anyone until we stopped for breakfast about 9am. We were back on the road again by 10. Again most everyone slept or watched movies. We arrived at my friends house about 1:30. So about 10 hour drive with stopping for breakfast. I was elated. I was really stressing over the drive and how Caitlynn and Dalton would do but they did AWESOME!!!
I was a little tired and didn't even know the kids were having fun piling stuff on me while I was crashed on the floor
Later that night we picked Ashlie up from the airport which ended up taking a whole lot longer than anticipated. But all was good. The next day we just hung around my friend's house and then later that day we went to Stone Mountain. If you have not been.... GO!!!
We hung out in this lawn for alittle bit until it was dark and then they did a laser show on Stone mountain. Everyone loved it. The park also has a few rides and attractions but we didn't do any of that.
Here is a little history of Stone Mountain
Conceived in 1909 by Helen Plane, then a chapter president of what is now known as the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), the carving has had many identities. Plane's idea was to honor General Robert E. Lee. When artist Gutzon Borglum was contacted, he added an army of 750 men to the idea. Begun in 1923, Borglum left the project (and the state) in 1925 in a flurry of charges and counter-charges over virtually every aspect of the project. The second artist to attempt carving Stone Mountain was Augustus Lukeman, who removed Borglum's work and centered on four central figures, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and a color-bearer. Time ran out for Lukeman in 1928 when the lease to create the carving ran out.
Following the state's purchase of the land in 1958, Walker Hancock (sometimes listed as Walter Hancock) began working on the project and carving started again in 1963. In 1970 Spiro Agnew dedicated the carving, filling in for President Nixon who was embroiled in the Kent State fiasco. The carving was declared completed in 1972..
Sunday we went to church and then took in a few sites. Our plan was to leave around 3-4 on Monday morning. We didn't actually leave until 5-5:30. Traffic was horrible, it rained... rained HARD most of the way home, Caitlynn and Dalton didn't sleep nor were they interested in watching the movies. We had to stop several times to let them run around. The trip home was not pleasant. It took us about 13 hours to come home..... But I think road trips are a lot like childbirth. You forget about all the pain and would quickly do it again.
Conceived in 1909 by Helen Plane, then a chapter president of what is now known as the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), the carving has had many identities. Plane's idea was to honor General Robert E. Lee. When artist Gutzon Borglum was contacted, he added an army of 750 men to the idea. Begun in 1923, Borglum left the project (and the state) in 1925 in a flurry of charges and counter-charges over virtually every aspect of the project. The second artist to attempt carving Stone Mountain was Augustus Lukeman, who removed Borglum's work and centered on four central figures, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and a color-bearer. Time ran out for Lukeman in 1928 when the lease to create the carving ran out.
Following the state's purchase of the land in 1958, Walker Hancock (sometimes listed as Walter Hancock) began working on the project and carving started again in 1963. In 1970 Spiro Agnew dedicated the carving, filling in for President Nixon who was embroiled in the Kent State fiasco. The carving was declared completed in 1972..
Sunday we went to church and then took in a few sites. Our plan was to leave around 3-4 on Monday morning. We didn't actually leave until 5-5:30. Traffic was horrible, it rained... rained HARD most of the way home, Caitlynn and Dalton didn't sleep nor were they interested in watching the movies. We had to stop several times to let them run around. The trip home was not pleasant. It took us about 13 hours to come home..... But I think road trips are a lot like childbirth. You forget about all the pain and would quickly do it again.
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