Sunday at Stone Mountain

October 24th, 2006 at 07:14am Brian

Well once again I have been reunited with my family this week.  We spent most of the day (Jodi and Braylen) catching up on sleep from the early flight in.  Jodi says that they won’t be coming in early like that because all they do is sleep when they get here.  But I say that is fine by me because at least your here.  In fact this time and the last I have taken a nap with Braylen which is really really great.  So on Sunday we all woke up to a very cold and rainy morning.  We were trying to find something to do and decided to just head out and see what happens.  As we left the apartment the sky started to turn blue and the weather slowly started to get warmer.  As we tried unsucesfully to find this park I had told Jodi about, we decided to head to Stone Mountain.  Stone Mountain is a very cool park that we visited on our very first trip here and thought this would be a great place to bring Braylen……..so we did.

 When we got there we purchased our tickets and headed towards our first activity for the day……RIDING THE DUCK!!!!

 

This was an old WWII boat that was overhauled into a tourist ride.  We took a stroll around the park then made a great big splash into the lake.  Of course I seemed to get the most wet from the entry but I didn’t mind because Braylen was having fun.  While in the water Braylen got a chance to drive the duck as our tour guide (who was very funny and nice) let all of the kids take a turn at sitting behind the wheel and blowing the horn.  Also along this ride we were given duck lips.  Duck lips? you might ask?  Yes it was our very own duck caller.  Of course Braylen couldn’t figure out how to blow into it, but by the time the ride ended Braylen was a quacking machine and was calling it his quacker.

So next we headed to the pumpkin patch where Braylen ran around trying to pick up all of the very big pumpkins.  During this time Braylen hit the WALL!!!! He was getting very tired and was very hungry.  So mom ran off to get him a hot doggie as dad tried unsucessfully to calm him down.  Of course mom stepped in once she got back, got him to eat his hot doggie, and got him laughing again.  So next we headed to the play fort where mom and dad took turns following Braylen around as head ran all around.

After doing that for some time we decided it was time to go to the next activity.  So after some discussion and trying to figure out where we were at, we headed toward the train ride.  We took a very nice train ride around the mountain as Braylen sung his songs and sat between the two of us.  By this time it was getting close to seven o clock as we made our way back to the car.

What started out as a gloomy cold and rainy day, truly turned out to be a great family day out.

 

 

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