The weather here has been completely gorgeous these last few weekends, so of course we've spent as much time as possible outside taking advantage of it! Here's a recap of what we've been up to.
We kicked off the weekend before last with our innaugural "Don't act your age" outing. We went out on the town with the Whitworths and the Andersons to enjoy ourselves and for once not act like we have a care in the world. Needless to say we had a blast, and there are no pictures to prove it. On Sunday we took advantage of the B-E-A-U-tiful weather and went on a bike ride on the Silver Comet Trail. We've been wanting to do this for a long time now, but just never really got around to it. My goodness it was beautiful. You definitely didn't feel like you were anywhere near a major city. Here are a few pics:
We rode 11 miles out, and then took a break to eat our lunch before heading back. Before we got on the trail, we grabbed some sandwiches from Muss & Turner's. They turned out to be quite tasty!
The trail was like this the whole way - gorgeous!!! We were some of the few recreational bikers on the path as there were tons of professional bikers. We weren't intimidated though (on our 10 year old mountain bikes)....
On the way back, we diverged off the trail a bit to go into historic downtown Powder Springs. It was really cute, and enjoyable (minus the part that you had to bike uphill the whole way back to the actual trail).
This past weekend, we also took advantage of the amazing weather and went on an all day hike with Bonney and Paul to Cloudland Canyon. Bryan and I originally wanted to go camping, but by the time we got around to actually reserving a camping spot there wasn't a single one to be found in the whole dang state park. That's what you get when it's leaf season at one of the most beautiful places in the state.
As 4 Georgia natives (and 3 of us are from north Georgia), we were all amazed that we hadn't been to Cloudland before. It was hands down one of the most beautiful places we've seen in the state. We had a blast hiking all day and enjoying the perfect weather and beautiful scenery. We even hit up a delicious BBQ place on the way home (and then drove through Chattanooga to get back home). It was a long, but incredibly fun day. I'll let the pictures do the talking.
This weekend we're headed down to Jacksonville for the GA/FL game. Here's to more time with friends and family, good weather, and please God can we just have a W in Jacksonville this year??
Also, be sure to check out the photography tab. Bryan added some more photos to show of his photography skills.
