Spring Break

Spring Break for the children at the Little Red Schoolhouse was the week following Easter. We decided to go visit Auntie En in Atlanta. My folks also drove down for the week, so it was a big fambly reonion.

It was lots of fun. We dyed Easter eggs, MC Easter Bunny hid them in all sorts of secret places, but the Things found them all. Auntie En cleverly gave the Things joke books ON THE FIRST DAY OF OUR TRIP, so we heard funny jokes many times over the course of the week.

The next day (when we had recovered from our chocolate comas) we were supposed to visit some of Sweetie's relatives who lived farther south in GA, but it was stormy, so we decided to stay in. Not a bad idea, since trees were down all over Atlanta causing general mayhem. We decided to go to a local museum instead to see the 3D dinosaur movie, but the museum was closed due to a power outage (see the above line about downed trees causing general mayhem). So we went to a local park and got into a total-family monkey ball fight (well, we call them monkey balls - everyone else calls them sweet gum balls).

The next day was a trip to the fabulous Georgia Aquarium (even their website is awesome). The Things loved it and we got some cool pictures and video. Afterwards, we walked over to the Centennial Olympic Park (COP) (remember when the Olympics were in Atlanta?) and found the brick that Auntie En bought to help support the Games.

Wednesday was our big trip to Stone Mountain to (begin sarcasm) celebrate the Confederacy and secession (end sarcasm)! They don't really push that aspect of it, but good Lord, the carving dominates the place, and the 'viewing stations' commemorate only those state that seceded (or tried to). This is a very nice park, and an incredibly impressive geologic formation, and actually a rather incredible feat of engineering and sculpting, but the whole concept of it baffles me (as a Northerner). Ah well, we had had a nice time hiking up the Stone - no whining from the Things about being tired, etc. It was windy at the top, but the view was nice. We took the cable car, I mean, Skyride back down. Thing 2 said, "I've never been on a cable car before!" And he was right...

Thursday, Grammy and Grandpa had to leave and we finally got down to see Aunt Ann and Uncle Jake. They live near the Air Force base in Warner-Robbins that has a cool museum. It's not as extensive as the one in Ohio, but it's got a surprising variety of aircraft from WWII through the modern era - there's a B-1 bomber sitting right in front of the place. This, too, was very popular with the Things.

Then our trip was over and it was time to get back to sunny CA. We were expecting a guest. More on that in the next post.