Friday, June 15, 2007

More Highlights from Athens (East Texas)

Here are a few more great pics from our stay with Jim's parents. Wish it could have been longer!















Ellie would make a great fireman, as she LOVED sliding down the pole. Once she got the hang of it, she was scary--coming down whether mommy was there or not!
















This was a great 5 tricycle ride-- never seen anything like it! They had such fun!















Best sister pic in awhile. They are almost both smiling, both looking at the camera. This is a statistical impossibility. We were at the Arboretum in Athens, in front of a life-size doll house. It was such a great play area!

And this reminds me of another story I'll touch on briefly-- The day before this trip with the girls, my mother-in-law and I got lost on a sophisticated, all-uphill hiking trail for HOURS, in the pitch-black of night, while it was POURING down rain...a deluge...we were almost swept away! There are only a few words in the last sentence that could be considered slight exaggerations. When we were driving home looking like drowned rats, GG asked me if I thought Jim might be wondering what became of us by that point. He hadn't even begun to miss us. Probably the most memorable (definitley the most adventurous) few hours of our whole trip.
















Action shot! I love the flying hair! The girls with cousins Emma and Alli (Jim's sister's girls.)
















This poor turtle wandered into the wrong yard. He was a GREAT science project for the morning though. After mild torture he made a run for it and got away.















Here's all the girls with Aunt Becca, Jim's brother's wife.















Simple pleasures-- the pool at the hotel. Ellie loved to be thrown in the pool! Pictured here with "Uncle Dingo", Jim's brother.















Here's the whole Bishop fam-- Jim's sister, husband Jeff, Emma and Alli.

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