Family Time at Easter (Sorry, I thought I posted this a couple of months ago!)!

We had a great Easter with both Eric and Leah visiting us in GA. It's difficult to get all of us together now with Leah teaching in Phoenix and Eric having the schedules and deployments of the Air Force. It was a good family time.
Leah came in on Thursday and on Friday morning we drove to Lagrange GA.  We were looking at buying a property there and wanted to show her the area. (More on the house and Lagrange later!)
We spent the day in the small town, went to St. Peters for Good Friday Stations of the Cross and enjoyed the views of West Point Lake.

Leah looks out at West Point Lake

Jim and Leah walk along the shoreline

It was a nice day but a little cool for water sports.

Leah thought this mailbox we saw at Highland Marina would be perfect.



That night Eric drove in from Florida, about 3 1/2hours and we spent the night. In the morning we went to Callaway Gardens, about 20 miles away. Callaway gardens is a family getaway with hiking, biking and lake activities. We walked through the garden,

fed the turtles,

 and checked our wing span.
We also visited the butterfly exhibit.

ready to go!

But the most fun was the tree top adventure. It was a zip line along with several rope climbs.



one of the rope walks, high in the woods

Yikes! But nice view of the park!

After the tree top adventure we rented some bikes. We were looking for a place to eat. We were all tired and hungry. After riding around for too long, we ended up back at the bike rental and ate there. It was definitely not as fun as the zip line but we saw a lot of the park.

We returned to Atlanta to celebrate Easter with our traditional ham dinner.




We also had an early morning visit from the Easter Bunny!! Both Eric and Leah found the "hidden" eggs.

Overall the time was great to be together, especially with Eric being deployed to Afghanistan the following week