2014_09_20 Saturday

kids, Mrs Calloway, and her dog?

Dave needed some time this weekend to catch up on work after being a 'single dad' for most of the week, so I took the kids on a roadtrip to Callaway Gardens.

It's a huge camp site and nature preserve in southwestern GA. We walked through a neat butterfly house; the butterflies were huge, and we saw them in various stages of metamorphosis. We went to large veggie and azalea gardens.

We picnic-ed with some snacks (not a good lunch, though). We visited their Discovery Center and sat in on a very cool raptor program. They had 4 raptors that flew loose directly overhead of the audience. So much so, that the director asked us not to stand up, and now I know why. I actually felt the feathers of some of them flying immediately overhead. It was really cool. We also learned that one hawk (of course, I've forgotten the name), actually eats all types of snakes by baiting them to bite his wings and then using his claws to decapitate it. Love nature!

Then, we rounded out the day with a swing by their beachfront. The kids played in the water and sand for a few minutes -- until Elise got her lower 1/2 soaking wet. ugh.  But, it was a really nice day, and (until we were driving home) the kids did great!!