Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains - right up 400 - Helen has so much to offer its visitors - from putt-putt, tubing down the 'Hooch, exhibits of live black bears...oh, and of course your run-of-the-mill tattoo parlors and Nascar shops! No thank you ;)
So we arrived - with our jam-packed Excursion full of our kiddos and Aunt Karen - around 3pm. If you didn't know that it was the middle of July, you would've thought it was October...the weather was *that* beautiful. Thank you, God ;) oh! Let me also add that upon entering the town we passed a shop that had a mural of Kateri Tekakwitha - I believe it was pretty much the whole front of the little shop. After pointing it out, it also dawned on Karen that it was also her feast day! A little smile from God! How cool. We were joking that the first time we came and saw that Indian woman -BC [before conversion, although it was actually a REversion...a kick in the pants!] - we were probably saying something like this, "Hey look, it's Pocahontas!"
We went into some of the shops along the strip. I was kind of bummed because the Christmas shop is one of the highlights there and it moved to a house which hadn't opened yet. Oh well.
Putt-putt anyone?
Well, some of us were more serious about putt-putting than others!
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I also was very bummed that the Christmas shop was closed when I was in Helen last. It is probably my favorite.
I think that there was a fire [?] or something to that effect.
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