Easter With Gramma Sam and Grampa Dave

We drove to Georgia to spend Easter with Dave and Sam. They were staying at General Coffee State Park, near Douglas Georgia. It was a long drive but worth it. We had a wonderful weekend. Jason got everyone set up fishing, and you better be sitting down for this one…he set them up with fishing POLES not fly fishing rods!!! It was a strange sight to see him throwing out line with a bobber on it instead of fly casting. Fly fishing is pretty limited here. The kids had a great time fishing even though nothing was biting. Becca did catch a new name on our adventure. Grampa named her Gator-bait! There was an island in the middle of the lake/pond we were fishing on and Grampa dared her to swim to it but to be careful of the alligators!!!

The state park is a protected area for gopher tortoises and eastern indego snakes. We got to see one tortoise in his little home, which was a underground cave/hole that it dug out for itself. It was larger than the size of a dinner plate. It was neat. The park also has a heritage center, the kids enjoyed the animals.

We also did some hiking. There were 2 geo-caches in the park so we set off to find them. The kids love geo-caching, it is like a treasure hunt for them. They love to see what is inside the cache and to trade in their stuff. One we found was started in 2004. After we found the first one Susie, Katie and Xander were done hiking so we headed back to camp. Jason and Becca kept going. Becca was really into it so the last day of camping she and Jason set up a cache for our family to start and hid it in a large, burned out tree stump.

And of course Easter was fun. The Easter Bunny hid lots of eggs all over the camp site. The hanging moss from the trees made good hiding places. This park was just covered in dried out moss hanging from the trees. Xander and I decided that it looked like a good episode from Scooby-Doo!!!

One quick Xander story: On the drive home he started breathing in and out of his nose really fast and loud and said “My nose not working!” to which I replied “Your nose isn’t working?” and he said “No, it got no batteries!” so there you have it, the wisdom of a 3 year old!

Anyway it was a great weekend. I put a bunch of photos in a slide show this time because there were so many! If you click on the arrows you can see the pictures in order, otherwise it shows them randomly for some reason…

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