Focht Family Blog

After we left Stone Mountain we went to Cumming to visit my brother and his family. On Monday night we went out to dinner with some of our friends from college. We hadn’t seen some of them since our wedding! We had a wonderful time. The waiter took a picture of all of us at the table and since Roy was trying to hide behind his wife, I also included a picture of just Roy and his wife Jennifer.

We stayed for the 3 nights in Atlanta at Twin Lakes RV Park. When I called to make the reservations, he apologized because he didn’t have any more full hookup sites left so we only had electric and water. Here is a picture I took of what was directly behind the RV. Do you think we had a bad spot????

We are now back in Statesboro. I will try to keep updates coming if we do anything of interest. The next trip we have planned is Disney in December!

After Stone Mountain we started driving towards Lake Lanier to drive through the lights. My brother and his family were going to join us but it was getting late and he and his girls were under the weather. We stopped at Chick-Fil-A (kid’s favorite) for dinner and then drove on. I LOVED being able to ride in the RV to look at the lights. The only thing that would have made it better would have been some Christmas music playing. Although when we went through the lights of the 12 Days of Christmas we sang the song until Misty started barking at us (not sure why?) :)

I opened my window and hung out of it to take pictures of some of our favorite light displays. Here are two Wizard of Oz displays. The first is of the tornado and the second is of Emerald City with the witch flying around it.

Next was a beautiful wreath and candles that Nathan stopped by so I could get a better picture.

Then there was a cute gingerbread house…

The last picture is one of a candy cane factory….

This prompted a discussion of whether or not anyone still makes candy canes by hand. Then that night, Nathan and I watched a show that showed a candy store that does tours in Denver that makes old-fashioned candies by hand including candy canes, so that will definitely be a stop when we go through Colorado.

Once we were off the ride, we spent the rest of the day walking around the Christmas village. The first two pictures are of the Stone Mountain carving and one of the Grist Mill that we saw while Timmy was driving the duck.

While in the village we found an area where the kids could decorate cookies and make some crafts.

After the crafts we went to a country Christmas show, a train ride and also the Polar Express 4-D show. When we got out of the Polar Express it was dark and the nightly parade was starting. Here is a picture of the Coca-Cola bear (sponsor), Bob & Larry (Veggie Tales), and one of Santa.

Next post will be the lights at Lake Lanier…..

Once we got down the mountain, we found out that we had to walk another mile to get to the Duck Ride. The ducks are the vehicles that they used in the military that can drive on the road or in the water. As you get on the ride, they hand everyone a duck quacker to blow on and for a souvenir (yay). Here is Bridgette trying to teach Joshua how to make noise.

And pictures of everyone else with their quackers….

After the duck landed in the water each child was given the opportunity to drive. Josh was so focused on his driving that he wouldn’t turn to look at the camera.

The rest of Stone Mountain is on its way…..

I took SO many pictures this trip that I decided I will make the Stone Mountain trip 5 posts! We got to the campground late on Friday night. Saturday morning we got up and decided that since we were going to the lights that night anyway we would just drive the RV to the park. They took a picture of our whole group before getting on the sky-ride that takes you to the top of the mountain. I tried to put everyone’s name on the picture but it is my mom, Nathan’s parents, Nathan’s sister and one of her friends with us.

On the way up the sky-ride the man driving told us that we could ride back down or that there was a 1.3 mile walk down the other side of the mountain. The kids thought that sounded like fun. We walked around the top for a little bit. Here are some pictures of Nathan with Samantha and Timmy (Josh was on my shoulders), Nathan’s parents, both of our moms, and a picture of a church in the middle of the trees that I thought was pretty.

Next, Christina and her friend Bridgette joined us for the walk down the mountain.

More to follow in next post…..