Catch-up

Last Week...

Today we drive home to Charlotte after an early dinner at my grandparents’ with my brother.  We’re hoping to be home around 10-11, and to come home to our bed.  Don’t get me wrong, my grandparents have a wonderful king size bed here for us, but nothing, I mean nothing, beats your own bed.  I have actually gone without Starbucks for a whole entire day, and yes I did leave the house.  Today is day two, I may end up going to Starbucks so I can upload this post.  But I am enjoying regular Maxwell House coffee, and enjoying the beautiful Gainesville landscape.  My grandfather had this house built, I believe for my grandmother, it’s on my grandmother’s –mothers, land.  It’s a beautiful house with perfect lighting, and beautiful screened sunroom, I wouldn’t call it a porch because it’s not an add-on looking thing.  There are several potted plants, but it doesn’t look like plant hoarding.  Some of them hang from a plant hanger that comes up to my belly-button, others that are placed here and there on tables, but they are all well taken care of.  Even though my grandmother seems to think that “It looks just awful”, it doesn’t. 

Pumpkin Farm

While going up to Alacoloagords, jack-be-little pumpkins, miniature pumpkins, pumpkin pie, pumpkin candy, sugar-pumpkins, old fashioned pumpkins, pumpkins with warts… they didn’t have a name, we bought a blue pumpkin, a few miniature pumpkins, butternut squash, and some acorn squash. We left with paying a little over $20. It was fun, and a nice break honestly.



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Alacoloa Falls

My brother told us about a nice place to go, a very short hike but beautiful. Alacoloa falls, a beautiful waterfall in the town of Dawsonville, GA. We drove in, our GPS very confused as to where we were going (my grandfather had given us directions; which is good because it didn’t recognize the address Alcolola falls state park rd.!??!) but the map was still following us. We reached the bottom of the falls, which ended in a large pond which was full due to the large cold front that had come through the previous week. Then we recognized that you could hike about halfway up the falls, via steps. 175 steps later we were at the middle of the falls. A long bridge stretched across the furious water below. After picture taking, we followed across the bridge, figuring it would circle back around, but no… there were more steps (425) to the top of the falls! So of course we went up! That was strenuous, and boy did it make me realize I need to work out! Thankfully it was cool and the falls were beautiful! As we went on the bridge across the falls, we see… a parking lot. Where we could have driven up to the top! Exactly as my brother had told us! But alas, we enjoyed the exercise. We went back down the 425, then 175, steps but not without me going off the trail and risking my life to take a drink from the falls, which was very good by the way, and while I was climbing across the rock, a large rock about the size of a person’s head, fell from the top of the falls right in front of me. I saw it bounce continue down the falls, hum… I then decided, better do what I came here to do and get back to the main trail! So I did and the water was fresh, clean and cold! At the bottom of the falls we got to the car, once again, I was grateful for Rich’s insesent need to bring a cooler on trips. We had some drinks and sat, because, by this time, out legs were jelly and shaking! We cleaned up the car a bit and headed back to my grandparent’s. Once we got there my grandfather was outside with the dogs, I asked my grandfather if I could drive the Honda CRX (manual), because I've always like the CRX and then the image of having a pearl white one with such power etc... it intruiged me... but alas, i was a horrible driver and realized i love the luxury of my 2006 honda civic.