Sea Turtle Release

The Georgia Sea Turtle Center released a turtle last week. They made an event out of it. The turtle, Dylan, was rescued as a hatchling and has lived most of her life on Jekyll Island at the Tidelands Nature Center and then the GA Sea Turtle Center. She did live for a brief time at the GA Aquarium. The tide was ridiculously low the day she was released. It took a bit for her to actually swim off (I think because she couldn't get in water deep enough). But she did swim off, and now even has a radio device on the top of her shell.

Double click the picture to get a better view. They are posting updates on her progress here http://www.georgiaseaturtlecenter.org/index.html

Lane Packing Company

We stopped at Lane Packing Company on our trip to Alabama over the 4th. They have an elevated walkway that you can go over and see the entire process for sorting, washing, and packing the peaches. Interesting that they use an optical scanner to sort them according to size.

http://www.lanesouthernorchards.com/

Wordless Wednesday July 2, 2008

Eliza has planned her wedding

Eliza decided this morning that she would plan her wedding. She is 4 and a half...
On some Friday at 10:11 am
Cake: strawberry whipped cream pie
Groom: Maybe Nate or maybe a boy that I haven't met yet
Hair: Pigtail braids with a twist
Food: Steak and strawberries, hot dogs; Mom to cook food
Music: Conjuction Junction; Bothers to play piano and violin
Pictures: Daddy to take
Dress: Mommies wedding dress
Flowers: Pink and purple flowers
Location: Indoors so there will be no gnats
Honeymoon: Hawaii
Guest List: Grammy and Grandaddy, Uncle Chris and Aunt Amy, Uncle Steve and Aunt Kerry, Nate's family

Wordless Wednesday June 4, 2008

The Georgia Aquarium

The GA Aquarium was amazing!! The whale sharks, the belugas, the number of touch tanks...it was worth every penny and I would go back any chance we get!!

The Atlanta Center for Puppetry Arts

Super cool place to spend an afternoon in Atlanta! The kids did the puppet workshop and got to make their own puppets. We attended the current puppet show which was Cinderella Della Circus. I was really good. What a super fun day!!
http://www.puppet.org/