My older son had his state testing for school this past week. Since he is home schooled, he had to take his tests at a state facility, all five of them and one a day. When I got to chose the site, they only gave me counties, and not my county either. That meant driving, and potentially driving in Atlanta traffic. So, I picked and got a northern county. Lo and behold I got Amicalola Falls park lodge. I got to take both my sons there the first day, and at the end of the week camped with the older son taking the tests. We might have stayed longer, but there were lots, and I mean lots, of wasp's and yellow jackets around. I mean I have never seen so many, and not so much bees either. And they were drawn to the Bus, as soon as you rolled a window down, in they came. My son has never been stung, so he was wary, and fortunately we did not get stung. But, you had to keep watching, they were bad. Here are some shots:
The first few days were breezy and chilly. This is at the lodge looking South:
On Thursday the campsite was 1/4 full, by Friday it was 100%.
This is the campsite, it rained and lightning was part of the storm:
After the storm, it all turned orange, these shots don't do any justice:
This is the morning, my son was in the cot overhead still:
This is looking down the falls, it is a long way down there:
The trees were blooming, not sure if this had something to do with the wasps and YJ's:
This is part of the falls, no matter how hot you got climbing, it was very cool near them:
The infamous 600 stairs, the boy and I did it this year too, and even saved a eighth grader who climbed them, got heatstroke and needed a ride back down, the the "Dharma Bus" as the kids all called it.
And here I am, I think you need to make interesting pictures, we had fun, but I have to find more camping places:
