APRIL FOOL'S DAY

we are now in calhoun, ga visiting some cherokee indians sites...we have gone from civil war history to indians...we have found both very interesting..we have been to the keensaw battlefield-prickett's battlefield-indian mounds-and today we were at the new echota cherokee capital-and the chief vann house...have had several days of rain and if we lived here we would be very happy as the lakes are filling up and on the news they are about the lift the drought band so then everyone can water their plants-wash their cars-etc...but for us we are glad the sun is shinning today..maybe not tomorrow but at least today...here for a couple of days then moving on to the knoxville, ky area where we are planning on meeting up wwith lar's brother doug and iris...they live in the louisville area but the plan is to drive part way to have dinner with them...more and more things are in bloom in the area the red buds are the best along with dog wood and can you believe today we saw dandelions...so spring is really on it's way...

ANOTHER

ok here we are enjoying another very rainy day here in georgia.....it sure was not so good getting out of atlanta heavy heavy rain-foggy and the traffic thought that it was a sunny day..on the radio we heard about lots of accidents..but my driver just tokk his time and got us to where we wanted to be without any problems...glad he was driving...the water shed here in the areais glad to get all this rain as they have been in a drought but not any more the lakes are filling up so now they are worried abut flooding....lar took me out to breakfast this am at the loidge here in the park which just happens to have wifi so we are in luck of sending and recieving for a bit...today we ware going to fdo inside stuff there is a cowboy museum near by so we thought why not...then who knows maybe some shopping....we were abel to wastch syracuse basketball last night...what a bummer they lost after we wet to bed and haven't heard about who won the other games.....there is alot to do and see in the area but on nice days...which tomorrow is suppose to be so hopefully we will get the the indian mounds and battlefields...

RAINY DAY

it rained all night on and off but this morning it just poured and poured and if we were driving we would have pulled over cause it was coming down so hard..so instead we decided to wit till it let up or even stopped..which it didn't we were also listening to the radio and we kept hearing all about the traffic build ups/accidents/roads closed and some of them were what we needed to take to go see king tut...we decided not to go into town at 1pm so instead i needed a hair cut--found a place--found a sam's club did some shopping and shared an ice cream...then we found a wal-mart a small one...needed mustard/bread so lar shopped at a kroger's and i got trimmed..so all in all it has been a good day but the rain hasn't really stopped..has let up some but there is like a maine mist out there now...tomorrow we are heading north and more than likely we will NOT have any wi-fi for a few days..we plan on using our georgia annual pass and see some historic sites and camp at a couple of their state parks.....

MUSEUM

here's what we did today...we went to the FIRST EMPEROR-CHINA'S TERRACOTTA ARMY exhibit...not to long ago an army of about 7,000 soloiders were found in a dig...come to find out it was a bunch of terreacotta army dudes...the first emoperor thought that he would have some figures built to protect him at the time of his death so he had all these built to protect him...well they have been found and it is most interesting...we had thought about also to KING TUT exhibit but we ran out of time so i think it is on the schedule for tomrrow...it has rained on and off today and tongiht it is suppose to rain heavy..so i guess we will just stay inside ahhaha...no biking and we had hoped to get some in....

NO GO

ok i did try to send pictures yesterday but for some reason they didn't go oh well i will keep trying...yesterday we went to the atlanta aquarium--which was the wrong day to go as it is spring break/school field trips/etc...so the place was crowded with lots of small/medium/large kids running around punching shoving...so we did enjoy some of the exhibits when we could get close enough to view the fish and listened to a couple of talks about some of the fish..it is a very large aquarium and well put together and we would recommend anyone to come enjoy just pick the right days ahhaha....today we are going to go see the chinese tera cotta soldiers that were found and then maybe even go see king tut...not sure if we will have time to see both as the traffic in and around atlanta is something else...i just pray...

finally

finally i think we have some good wi-fi so i will try to send some pictures...there might be at least one of the "LAUNCH" and who knows what the other might be...we are now in stone mountain, ga...we spent 5 weeks here when lar went to school for western union and the girls were maybe 8-9...so we thought for memories etc we would come back..do we remember anything about the place NO...but anyway are plan is to go to the aquarium/farmer's market/a Chinese body exhibit/ and who knows what else...the traffic around atlanta is something we are glad we don't have to drive in to go to ithaca for a gallon of milk...sure am glad we don't have to go thru it every day...had a great visit with steve/ginger/gigi/melissa......

THURSDAY

ok today was kinda a laid back day...first we all had breakfast this morning i made pancakes frank made sausages and bev brought cantaloupe....breakfast was around 9am after lar and don went for their morning walk and who knows which route they take and might even get lost hahaha...cathy and frank left around 10:30 or so then the rest of us decided that today was a get things done around the rig etc...so cleaning was on my schedule and also bev's...our hot water heater has (had ) a malfunction so lar fixed that by replacing the thermostat..seems to be working...then this afternoon it was time to play some cribbage..partners...don & lar--bev & me (that's tracy)...can you believe that the girls won ....tonight we are off to dinner at a special place..we wanted to go there the other night but it was closed till thursday so tonight the night...a very interesting place to look at on the outside but here that it has some really great food inside...so tonight the test....tomorrow we head for steve white 's place in beauna vista, ga...for the weekend then on to the atlanta area we think right now but you know we just might change our minds...not sure about wi-fi for the next few days..hope steve has it and right now we aren't sure where we will sit up the rig and have it at the next rest stop...so don't worry about us if you don't hear from s in a few days....