Thursday, May 22, 2008

Ruby Falls/Georgia Aquarium

This is us standing in front of Ruby Falls.
Last Wednesday morning we started out on our trip to Atlanta for Rob's brothers wedding. Overall the trip went really well. The kids did extremely well in the car. We made it to Chattanooga TN on the first day. We had to find a mall on the way down to let the kids get out of the car and run around in the play area because it rained the whole way down there. We were hoping for nice weather the next day so we could go to the Chattanooga Zoo, but unfortunately it was raining again when we woke up. So we chose to go to Ruby Falls. The worlds tallest underground waterfall. We weren't sure about taking 2-20 month old kids there, but we asked when we arrived and the lady said it wouldn't be a problem. Well little did we know that we would have to carry(yes you read right)carry the kids the entire time. We took an elevator down into the cave and then had to walk with the kids to the falls.(about a 1/2 mile) It just wasn't safe enough to let the kids down to walk. They did ok with the whole thing because there was enough to look at. Once we got to the Falls it really was pretty. The picture doesn't do it justice. I couldn't take too many pictures because I was carrying a squirmy kid.
We met up with Rob's family who were on their way down from Indiana and made our way to Marietta, GA. We had lunch together and then went to see Rick and Michelle's new house. On Friday we(Grandma, Great Grandma, Uncle Randy, Rob and I and kids)went to the Georgia Aquarium. The kids tried to have a good time but were pretty crabby when we were there. The seals were probably their favorite thing. They sat at the window for a while and watched them swim back and forth in front of the window.

I actually caught Elsie laughing at the seals.
Reid was pretty excited about all of the big fish in the giant aquarium.

3 comments:

debi9kids said...

More great pics! LOVE the shot of both kids looking in the aquarium.

Tonya Staab said...

Wow, that was brave of you carrying them all that way. Seriously mine are such squirm worms we wouldn't have made it past the entrance.

Love that shot at the aquarium with them both together look into the tank :)

The Romero-Schroeder said...

I love the pitures!!!