Nice Hike

The water falling over the damn.

Waterfall

I took a nice hike in Roswell one afternoon. I was surprised to find an old cotton mill with a damn and a waterfall.

Some of the old equipment.

The mill from above

It was at the site of the Roswell Mill - a cotton mill from 1839. It was powered by the running water and a series of belts. The water is from Vickery Creek also known as Big Creek. It runs to the Chattahoochee River.

A covered bridge over the creek

There is also a nice covered bridge to more trails on the other side of the creek.

View of the creek from the other side.

One of the old buildings used with the mill. You can see the bridge in the background.

It was beautiful weather and a nice hike. I'm looking forward to going again!!

Notre Dame!

We took our annual visit to South Bend on the weekend of Sept 17th to see the Fighting Irish play Michigan State. (Sorry I'm so behind on my blogging but that means I've been busy doing things to blog about!)
Leah met us there for the weekend but Eric was on an assignment in Virginia Beach so he couldn't make it. :-( He's as big a ND fan as any of us but has never been to a home game. Next year that has got to change.

Aldo, Leah and Jim check out the hockey practice

Jim's business associate and friend from Boston, Aldo, had mentioned that seeing a Notre Dame home game was on his bucket list so he took our extra ticket and spent the weekend with us.

Friday we went to the bookstore and of course had to stop at Legends for a beverage.

The Notre Dame Stadium - viewing it from Legends

 The sky that day was a little dreary but not for long. Saturday was perfect fall weather - almost hot at times. There was a lot of spirit around campus after losing the first two games. Everyone still thought they could turn the season around.

We met our friends from Sioux City and had a great time.

 

Our tailgate site

The view from our tailgate - Golden Dome and touchdown Jesus.

This year Leah had to make sure she tried an elephant ear!

The group tailgating beside us had a Jenga game made out of 2x4 wood. They made it into a drinking game and when you pulled your peice it told you what to drink. Mostly it was shots of punch using a turkey baster - it was quite interesting. One of the girls - small, about 90 pounds, drew - "drink 4 shots". She thought that might be a bad idea so she drafted some unnamed members of our group to help her out.

The Jenga game

The game was fun, our seats were awesome and ND won.

View from our seats! Isn't that just a classic college football site?

At half time they did a 9/11 tribute. First one of the ND band members sand I'm proud to be an American - the microphone was not working well and soon the entire stadium sang along. Then both bands played together - as they had done 10years ago - playing Amazing Grace - and again the entire stadium sang along. It was very moving.
After the game we went to mass on campus in one of the dorms - always crowded but fun.
The weekend ended too fast, we drove back to Chicago to fly home.