Rain, Rain or Rain we are going on a picnic

My husband was home for four days this weekend and it was wonderful. We packed a lot in during these four days from making our own laundry soap to hiking in the rain.

The laundry soap was fun to make and very very simple, although my husband and my nine year old took over the making of it. I enjoyed the process very much and my nine year old Sarah has been doing laundry non stop which isn't a bad thing :)  .

We were going to go on a picnic to Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain Ga, but we ended up not packing any food and going only to find out that they were having a special event (Hot Air Balloons) so the price of admission was half price for military and not free as usual, so we nixed that plan and promised Sarah we would go on a picnic the next day. So we just drove around the area took in the sites and talked.

The next day I fried pork chops, made Cole slaw and potato salad and off we went with Sarah and our 18 year old Son to Providence Canyon in Lumpkin Ga for a picnic and a hike as Tropical Storm Lee was making it's way through our area...we weren't letting a little rain stop our family picnic!!!

So off we went to Providence Canyon also known as "Georgia's Little Grand Canyon" where the gullies can be as steep as 150 feet and all this is due from poor farming practices in the 1800's to hike the three mile trail and have our picnic...I didn't mention I couldn't find my shoes and ended up wearing a pair of broken sandals. We finished our lunch and started our hike to the canyon floor. Our son left us behind in no time so it was just me, my husband and Sarah. The rain was holding off pretty good but the trail had spots of slick wet red Georgia clay and it was very amusing for my family to watch me navigate with no traction on my soles but although I was in the wrong shoes I stayed on my own two feet the whole way down and the whole way back up the other side. But before the three plus miles was up the clouds opened and it started pouring. It was raining hard and now my sandals wouldn't stay on my feet so i ended up walking back to the car barefooted trying to navigate between the pine cones and the sweet gum and the fire weed which I did.
 I can honestly say I enjoyed playing in the rain with my family it will remain a favorite memory for me.

The next day we went to the labor day fair and again the weather was nasty but we made a promise to Sarah we would at least go see what was happening...not much. Not a lot of people and not a lot of anything going on. So we walked around let Sarah enter to win an ipod shuffle for a dollar a ticket went and bought some lemonade and then looked at some dinosaur bones and what nots in the court house museum and then the tornado sirens went off....so we along with everyone else scrambled into the old courthouse and waited it out. Sarah was so scared she didn't notice when the lady walked up to her dad and handed him a blue ipod shuffle that she had won. The tornado touched down some place not to far down the road and we finally got out of there and Sarah was a very happy girl to be going home the winner of a new ipod.