Unfortunately as we were unloading the car the cloth bag with my camera accidentally dropped out of the trunk onto the pavement. My UV filter was shattered and the camera wouldn't take pictures- I was devastated! Here we were in such a beautiful spot for a few days and no camera. So we picked up the ancient film throw-away type camera. It was so weird- I'm so used to my incredible digital camera. Well I finally took the pictures and got them developed- obviously they are not as good as I like but at least they captured the fun we had :) (Oh, we had a protection plan on my digital camera-which ended up being not repairable so they just gave me a brand new one!)
Our first full day we ventured down to Anna Ruby Fall and to Helen-a quaint Bavarian town with lots of interesting shops; we ate our lunch at a restaurant that was built right on the edge of a babbling creek. The weather was perfect- absolutely gorgeous!
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| Thomas family at Anna Ruby Falls |
Now whenever we talk about anything related to water (water table, pool, swimming, lake, etc), Amelia calls it a waterfall :)
Amelia's new ride- we bought an awesome new hiking backpack from some friends at church; this one is definitely made for bigger toddlers; Amelia was getting to big for the other one so now we can use that one for Luke when he starts sitting up good
After lunch and walking around through some shops in Helen we headed over to Cleveland, GA to the Cabbage Patch Hospital. Amelia was in complete AWE of all the baby dolls. She kept wanting to pick all of them up- which is allowed but these are the handmade, hand stitched ones that are like $200!
Luckily they have some much cheaper ones at the end and we let her pick out one (with help- I steered her toward the ones that had dark hair and blue eyes like she does)
The next day we took a boat ride- I think Amelia was more excited about this than anything! We had walked around the boats docks in the morning and all she kept talking about was riding the boat. She loved it! She was great- didn't have any problems with her life vest until the very end which is understandable.
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| Great Grandma and Amelia |
We had to put a life-vest on Luke too . . .poor little guy was NOT a fan. Needless to say he didn't actually stay in the life vest the whole time. It was the smallest one they had and it swallowed him up!
While the kids were napping Dan did some exploring on a kayak
The next morning we headed out to the little public beach that was nearby
Amelia LOVED playing at the edge of the water even though the water was really cold; Luke on the other hand had a rough time- so Mommy spent the whole time trying to figure out why our easy going little guy was so fussy
This was such a fun getaway- we are definitely looking into going back and doing some camping in the area for our vacation later this summer :)
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