Tellus Museum

So Adventure Buddy and I decided on a warmer kind of adventure yesterday since it was nice and cold outside. We decided on the Tellus Museum in Cartersville, Ga. I've been before but he hasn't so we took a trip out there. First of all, if you are a member at other certain museums you can get in free.  We chose to see the show at the planetarium because I didn't get to do that when I went. It was a pretty neat experience, you go into this room with stadium seating and there is this large dome thing you sit under and the "tour guide" can use computer programing to bring up the night sky, show you certain constellations and even take you WAAAAAAAY out past our own universe. It was completely worth the $2.50 extra and I recommend it when you have the time! After the show we walked through the museum. They have a trains, planes and automobiles area, a "kids" area (that we had more fun in than most of the kids there) that you can play with things like gravity, sound waves, weather and all kinds of things. Then we went on to the fossils and then minerals. For the $14 for an adult, it's completely worth it. They also have a little area where you can "mine for gems" and "dig for fossils" which we didn't do even though I wanted to. I highly recommend this museum to waste a few hours in. Now on to picture time!


                  Even the dinosaurs in the holiday spirit! And the museum has a sense of humor!

The bathroom had this cool little built in step stool. It was funny because Adventure Buddy always makes fun of me for being so short....

                                             Adventure Buddy and I wanted to be an astronauts!

                              Two T-Rexs trying to hold hands didn't work out so well HAH!

                            I seriously thought this said the "Lame" Triceratops....poor guy.

                                                  I think there's something behind me....

                                                          Now I'm a T-Rex. Rawr!!

Well I hope you enjoyed our little adventure. If you're ever in the Cartersville area I recommend you check out the Tellus Museum! 

Cloudland Canyon

So, for this adventure we decided we wanted to go to Cloudland Canyon which is in Rising Fawn, Ga aka the middle of mt. nowhere! It's about an hour and a half from where we started.

As always on Fridays, we stopped for IHOP before we set out on our way. It's starting to get really cool in the mornings so it was fantastically cool when we began our little journey. I love fall weather. Anyway, once you reach the state park you have to pay $5 to park as usual at a state park. They also have a place to camp and a little pond you can fish in and even cottages. Once we parked, you can walk to the overlook and look out into the canyon and see just how far down you get to walk. But, the canyon was absolutely beautiful and seemed to go on forever! So we set out on our way and for anyone thinking about going here, you walk down what felt like a million steps. There are two falls down at the bottom, one goes really far down into the canyon and the other has less steps. We went to the one that went farther down into the canyon, but we didn't go down to where we could face the waterfall so I could take a picture. Then, we walked all the way back up and went to the other waterfall. Not many people were going to that one so we had the place all to ourselves. One thing is for sure, that was one heck of an exercise and my legs hurt for three days after so keep that in mind! Ok, picture time!!!

                   My big ol' grizzly bear found himself a cave. Such a funny grizzly bear XD

               This huge rock jutted out over a little bench where some dude was taking a break.

           And there was an awesome hornet's nest way up on the huge rock but it looked damaged.

Adventure buddy wanted to touch all the fuzzy caterpillars there were. They were all over the place and on the hand rails to where, if you didn't watch where you were putting your hand, you would touch a fuzzy caterpillar.

                                                     So many steps. Alllllll of the steps.

                                      It looked like a big foot footprint! BIG FOOT LIVES!!!!

                   Adventure buddy taking a picture of the big foot footprint. He facebooked it....

 We also found a persimmon tree and did the little seed test. If you haven't heard about this test here is how it goes: You take a persimmon seed and cut it in half (easier said than done) and on the inside there will be a shape. There are three shapes that you can find: a spoon, a fork or a knife. The spoon means that you will have a winter with a lot of snow, so much that you will have to "shovel" thus the spoon. The fork means that you will have a mild winter with just a light dusting of snow. The knife means that you will have a very cold winter "like a knife cutting through you." I do believe that this is a spoon.....fantastic.

Well that was our adventure for the week. I hope you enjoyed our pictures as much as we enjoyed taking them. I found a book on amazon earlier this week called Weird Georgia and I ordered it, it has all kinds of weird places to travel and things to do in the state of Georgia so we're going to go through it and find some things that we want to do. I also have a list of places I want to go so even though it's getting colder our adventures have just begun! So sit back and have fun with us!

Many many fishing adventures

So lately, adventure buddy and I have been on a fishing spree. Every time we plan to do something, it's always fishing (mostly because he likes to fish, I think.) I'm not too much of a fisher, he usually has to put my bait on and take the fish off if I catch one but I can cast the bait out and reel the fish in, no problem. My problem though, I have a hard time sitting still and just waiting for the fish to bite. It's pretty difficult after working all night and everything is quiet. I could just curl up and take a nap somedays (of course, the bugs and wildlife make it a bit difficult.) I'm sure adventure buddy wouldn't mind but usually I can stay awake and it gives us time to talk and catch up on the going on's at work and what's happened lately. Anyway, yesterday was no exception. When I got off of work, we met up and went fishing like normal. Unlike last time, the fish weren't biting as well but it was just nice to sit around and talk and take in nature and the shade and breeze that was happening. We did end up catching a couple of fish a piece though. And adventure buddy made a few new friends too!



This was the monster of a fish that I caught. He gave adventure buddy the run around, trying to get the hook out, which was kind of funny. He happened to be missing an eye too (which might have been from my hook....sorry dude!!!)

Then, adventure buddy made some new friends. Apparently bees really like chicken liver because after adventure buddy put the bait on the hook. this guy would run around his hand being all spazzy. He almost got squished a couple of times because he liked to hang out between fingers but luckily he lived to see another day.

 And this guy was just chilling on adventure buddy's leg. We were talking and suddenly he looked down and this dude was there. He was just a tiny little thing but he could jump like nobody's business!

Ok, there is a story behind this bobber. I didn't post about our last fishing adventure so you wouldn't understand what I was talking about if I just said that I got my bobber back. Well, on our last fishing trip, a fish broke my line and ended up stealing my bobber and we joked around and said it was Jaws (because, HEY! It was shark week!!!) Well, this trip we were walking around the lake and we picked a different spot and we had gotten settled when we looked over and saw this chilling close to the bank. So I went and picked it up and it looks just like the one that I lost on the last fishing trip to Jaws. We're not sure if it's the same one but it's funny to think that it is. And no, Jaws was not still attached to it.

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