Labor Day Weekend

Another fairly quiet week followed by a busy weekend. We got up early on Saturday and drove up to Atlanta and went to the Dialogue in the Dark exhibition . http://www.dialogue-in-the-dark.com/exhibition/scenario/ This was really interesting but unfortunately Lily found it a bit too scary and cried for most of it. After this we went onto the Bodies Exhibition http://www.bodiestheexhibition.com/bodies.html which was fascinating. Tom & Lily inevitably had a snigger at their first naked male body for obvious reasons. This made me laugh at them and I think a few people got a bit annoyed with us. Oops. You've got to admit, naked can be funny, especially when you are 9 & 7.
After all this education we went on to the Atlanta Botanical Gardens where they had a Henry Moore Expo so I got to see lots of his sculptures. I have posted all the photos onto my facebook page.

Not a Henry Moore, but pretty cool all the same.

On Sunday we set off to Stone Mountain, which happens to be the worlds largest piece of exposed granite. To make this more fun the park people made a huge skywalk park and various other attractions, so after walking along ropes about 10 - 50 feet above the ground attached to harnesses for an hour or so we had a game of crazy golf, rode the 'scenic' railroad, looked round an antebellum house and plantation, spent a fortune on food ($3 for a bottle of water!!!) we finally rode the cable car to the top of the lump of granite.

Today, being Labor Day the children are off school and have gone round to a friend's house to watch movies and eat pizza. Nice one.