Kalee is a little nervous about starting 1st grade, so we decided to take her on a surprise weekend trip. We went to Helen yesterday and went tubing down the Chattahooche River - they call it "tubin' the hooch", which Rich got a kick out of! The low water level made it a little bit of a work out, but we had a lot of fun. After tubing we went swimming in the hotel pool - Kalee was in heaven! Helen looks like a small German town, so after dinner we walked around and enjoyed all the little shops and of course...funnel cake - yum! Today we went gold and gem mining in Dahlonega. We went on a tour of an old gold mine, then got our chance to pan for gold and Kalee's favorite - gem mining. She was so cute - she would find a gem, ooh and aah over it and say "this is the best day ever!" She did this over and over again. Such a sweet kid!
This is a picture of part of the river that we tubed. It was much more crowded when we tubed!Kalee was picking which river rocks she wanted to take home...little did she know we were going to the gold mine!
Kalee chose ice cream over a funnel cake - crazy girl!
5 comments:
aw those were cute videos and pictures.
thats cool, i havent really heard much about gold or gem mining, pretty neat!
i am totally jealous of your weekend. we spent ours on the boat and at city walk.
Wish you were my mom and dad ! I want to go mining for gems when we go to NC , That german town place sounds great too , reminds me of some place I went when I was a kid . I vote for both , funnel cake and ice cream :)
Looks like you guys had a great weekend. How was the hotel? Was the hot tub nice?!
That's great you took the time to get away before school starts. It looks like all 3 of you had a great time and I believe Kalee when she said the water is FREEZING!
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