Tuesday we started out with one of the best hotel free breakfasts we've ever had. Biscuits and gravy, eggs, chicken, waffles, etc. The kids were just excited to get fruit loops, which I never buy. After breakfast we drove up some windy mountain roads to hike Brasstown Bald, the highest mountain in GA at 4784 ft. Jake pointed out this is lower than the elevation of the city Colorado Springs. But for my southern kids it's pretty high! Gavin was a little nervous on the drive up - I calmed him down by telling him about how Pop pop and Uncle Gary had cried when they were little and their family drove up Pike's Peak. At least our road was paved and 2 lanes. I was not a fan of all the windy mountain roads, even going the speed limit it seemed like we were going way too fast to me. Luckily Jake enjoyed the driving. We parked at Brasstown Bald and hiked the remaining .6 miles to the top up a steep but paved trail :
This is when the kids first stopped to really look at the view - they were in awe:
That white dot in the parking lot is our Jeep, where we hiked from:
Here's what the aerial view looks like, pretty cool:
The kids enjoyed the visitor center and Gavin did a scavenger hunt to win a souvenir carabiner.
Amelia was most impressed by the animatronic park rangers:
Jake and Gavin hiked back down the mountain and Amelia and I took the shuttle. I was afraid she'd splatter on the steep downward inclines. Then we drove over to Sleepy Hollow, a business owned by a former Disney imagineer. He makes whimsical fairy houses, bird houses, and play houses:
We stopped for a pizza buffet lunch in Blairsville, then did some hiking in Vogel State Park:
We all went swimming back at the hotel and went to bed early after a long day of exercise.
