So Stephen worked extra hours and I found us a cabin in the mountain. The day after Christmas we were off on our adventure. The girls survived the 8 hour car drive with lots of movies and snacks.
We got there and fell in love with our cute little cabin in Hiawassee GA. The first day was very rainy so we did not go out much. The girls did go out for a few minutes to play with the leaves. You would have thought they had never seen leaves before!
The next day the sun came out and we were on our way to have some fun. Our first stop was Cabbage Patch Land. Where we saw hundreds of Cabbage Patch dolls and how they are born. Abbie even got a Cabbage patch doll named Parker!
We then headed to go put-put golfing in 40 degree weather. We were the only crazy people out there and boy were we cold! We had on a couple of layers, thick jackets and scarves. You could definitely tell we were from Florida!
After that we decided to be even bigger tourist and climb to the highest Mountain in GA. It is Brasstown Bald and it is 4900 feet above Sea level and you can see four states from up there (GA, NC, SC, and TN). Well between a steep hike straight up the mountain and the freezing cold weather I think we were all about to die when we got to the top. But the view was totally worth it!
On the way back to the cabin Abbie got car sick and threw up everywhere so we decided to take it easy the next day and just hang out at the cabin and play wii. (Yes, the girls got a wii for Christmas and we could not possibly leave it at home so it came with us.)
After our fun day of staying in we decided to venture back out and hike 1.2 miles down the side of a mountain to a waterfall. The girls just loved hiking and wanted to keep going. They did not realize that whatever we hiked down we had to hike back up, so we stopped at the 1.2 mile marker and returned 1.2 miles back up the mountain. Boy did they get tired pretty quickly on the way back up. But we made it and had lots of fun as a family.
On our way home on New Year’s Day we made a few stops along the way. The first stop was to the American Girl store where the girls and me where in heaven. They each got a new outfit for their dolls and Gracie’s doll got her Ear’s pierced. After hanging out in the store for an hour and spending way too much money on doll clothes Stephen knew that we are in the wrong line of business.
Our next stop was to Snow Mountain where we finally got to play in the snow. The girls had so much fun. Even though it was man made snow it was 3 feet deep and very cold. We all had fun Building snowmen, throwing snowballs, sledding down the hill, making snow angels and even sitting around drinking hot chocolate.
For six straight days it was nothing but Stephen, me and the girls and we enjoyed every moment of our time together in the mountains. It was a wonderful family vacation with lots of memories. We will never forget watching the girls fall asleep to a roaring fire or watching them climb there first mountain, and build their first snowman. But most importantly we will never forget to stop and enjoy our family and to take time out of the day to just have fun and we will never forget how precious our two little girls are.
4 comments:
Great job Lacie! I loved reading all about you family vacation. Though the whole "snow mountain" thing cracked me up. Having grown up with foot upon foot of snow, and having shoveled tons of it, I just don't see the appeal of it! LOL :-)
Look forward to more posts.
Suzanne
Awesome job, Lacie!! Very nice blog. I will add you to my page and check back often!
Great job!! We missed you, but glad to know you had tons of fun!! :) See you Thursday!! :) Congrats on the new blog!!
Looking forward to reading lots of great family stories...
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