Monday, July 23, 2007

Saturday Road Trip...!! July 14, 2007

Paul and I decided to take a day and go to north Georgia. After much "where should we go" we decided on Helen, GA. We had not been there in 15 yrs - so 6 kids later we were due for a visit. Just a little Clavinism ~ Helen was named after a railroad surveyor's daughter in 1913!

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!

2 comments:

Katherine T. Lauer said...

I also was very bummed that the Christmas shop was closed when I was in Helen last. It is probably my favorite.

Shelly said...

I think that there was a fire [?] or something to that effect.